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The main campus in Lawrence tops Mount Oread is known informally as the Hill. KU is home to many famous landmarks and structures. Among them are the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics, the Beach Center on Disability, Lied Center of Kansas and two national radio stations.
The university is host to several museums including the University of Kansas Natural History Museum and the Spencer Museum of Art. The libraries of the University include the Watson Library, Spencer Research Library, and Anschutz Library which commemorates the businessman Philip Anschutz, an alumnus of the University.
The university provides a full range of student services, on-campus housing and many part-time employment opportunities. Getting around is very convenient. There are bus stations, car parking, the campus and the city of Lawrence are bicycle-friendly.
KU students run the clubs, student government and social, political, religious and service groups on campus. Any student can create a new club or join one already existing. Students develop about 600 student organizations each year, many of which are international in focus.
Each KU student is automatically a member of a first-rate health club — Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center. Student’s membership is included in theirs Required Campus Fee.
Recreation Services runs the student rec center, a sports complex, a pool and an outdoor education center. Students are eligible for Rec Services fitness activities, intramural sports teams, sports clubs and other programming.
Living in student housing means to be in the center of a student life. KU offers nine residence halls with a variety of rooms, 12 scholarship halls that emphasize cooperative living and two apartment complexes. Students have many options. KU's nine residence halls offer two-person traditional rooms and four-person suites.
Life in a residence hall is convenient. Here is a short list of amenities:
There are 12 scholarship halls that create close-knit communities of students aside from residence halls. About 50 students live in each school hall and they cook and clean their hall in exchange for a reduced housing rate.
KU also operates two apartment complexes for students with families. Both provide greater privacy than other KU housing and offer the benefit of being on campus.
The University Career Center offers a wide range of quality services designed to support and challenge students at all points on the career development and implementation path.
To guide students as they prepare for post-graduate career success three separate yet interdependent functional service teams are in place — Career Education, Career Networks and Administration.
Collectively, these teams offer individualized advising services, quality career planning courses, outreach programs, the most comprehensive collection of career resources on campus, a first-class website and numerous opportunities to connect with leading employers from around the country and the world.
Total undergraduate costs for nine-month academic year, 2016–2017 are about $44,000 for a non-resident living on-campus. This sum includes tuition and fees - about $28,000 per year, books and supplies - $1,000, room and board - $12,000, personal and transportation costs - $3,000.
The University of Kansas (KU) was founded in 1866 by abolitionist settlers who had moved to the area. Today KU has five campuses and is a major state-sponsored public research university fully accredited by the North Central Association/Higher Learning Commission.
KU is home to over 2,000 international students representing over 100 countries with partner organizations across the globe providing a truly international learning environment.
KU has 13 schools including the only schools of pharmacy and medicine in the state and offers more than 370 degree programs. The university has received national recognition for its urban policy and special education teaching .Particularly strong are special education, city management, speech-language pathology, rural medicine, clinical child psychology, nursing, occupational therapy and social welfare. The academic programs are supported by 12 libraries and several museums, including art and natural history.
The University of Kansas Cancer Center is the state's only designated National Cancer Institute. Eleven other major centers oversee research in life span issues, the humanities, transportation, the environment, biosciences, biodiversity, and polar ice sheets, among others.
The university is spread over five different campus areas with the main location in Lawrence and others in Wichita, Overland Park, Salina and Kansas City. Academic and administration facilities are housed in grand red-roofed buildings and more modern buildings and campus grounds are green and spacious.
Notable alumni include 3 Nobel Laureates, 13 former state governors, astronomer Clyde Tombaugh who discovered Pluto, three former NASA astronauts, Linda Z. Cook, executive director of Shell Gas & Power, part of Royal Dutch Shell, Alan Mulally, President and CEO of Ford Motor Company and many others.
A member of the prestigious Association of American Universities since 1909, KU consistently earns high rankings for its academic programs. In its 2017 list, the U.S. News & World Report ranked KU as tied for the 118th place among National Universities and the 56th place among public universities.
Top nationally ranked programs in public administration, special education, occupational therapy, speech language pathology, environmental policy and management, education, petroleum engineering and physical therapy provide outstanding undergraduate and graduate academic opportunities.
Excellent programs are available in architecture, art, business, design, education, engineering, health professions, journalism, liberal arts, law, medicine, music, nursing, pharmacy and social welfare.
The most popular majors by the number of registered students are business/marketing, health professions, communications/journalism, engineering, social sciences, visual and performing arts, biology, psychology.
The city management and urban policy program was ranked the first in the nation by U.S. News & World Report's 2016 rankings and the special education program was the second there. USN&WR also ranked several programs in the top 25 among U.S. universities.
