University of Kansas

The University of Kansas is the state's flagship public university, established in Lawrence in 1865 and opened in 1866. It grew as a comprehensive state university on a hilltop main campus, Mount Oread, with a separate University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas. It is a public research university with statewide professional schools; Kansas State University holds the land-grant title in the state.

Divisions include the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and schools of engineering, business, journalism, law, architecture and design, education, music, pharmacy, social welfare, and medicine. Graduate students in the sciences use the Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum; health doctorates and residencies are based at the Medical Center. The Hall Center for the Humanities supports graduate work in history and literature.

About 28,000 students enroll in Lawrence, with several thousand more in the medical system; graduate and professional students are a substantial minority. International students come from around 100 countries. Alumni include U.S. Senator Robert Dole, who earned his law degree at Kansas, politician Kathleen Sebelius, and actor Paul Rudd.

Graduate awards include the Ph.D., M.A. and M.S., J.D., M.D., Pharm.D., and professional master's degrees. Supervision is committee-based after coursework on a standard semester calendar. Teaching and research assistantships are common in Lawrence. Students live in a college town west of Kansas City, with the medical campus a separate urban setting about 40 miles away.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, University of Kansas lists 30 graduate programs across 13 subjects: 10 master's programs and 20 doctoral programs, with the widest choice in biology, education and earth & environmental sciences. University of Kansas holds rank 392 in the GSN Overall University Ranking.