2009 K-State Football Media Guide

K-State recognized as Scholar Capital of America K-State is a national leader among public universities in the total number of Rhodes, Marshall, Truman, Goldwater, and Udall scholarship winners since 1986. For Truman and Goldwater scholars, K-State is the all-time number one in the nation among public universities. In 2008-2009, K-State students earned Rhodes, Truman, Udall, Goldwater, Fulbright, and Rotary International scholarships.

K-State has third national professor of the year With its third national Carnegie/CASE Professor of the Year named in 2008 and nine state winners, K-State ranks in the top 10 of all public and private colleges. K-State is also the only university to win both the national and state awards in the same year. (2007) One of the top research universities K-State is among only 4% of public universities in the nation categorized as having very high research activity by the Carnegie Foundation.

K-State one of “The Best 368 Colleges” K-State was featured as one of America’s best in the Princeton Review’s “The Best 368 Colleges.” (2008) K-State was also ranked in the top 25 of America's best "cutting-edge schools" in You Are Here: A Guide to Over 380 Colleges and Unlimited Paths to Your Future. K-State was the only school from the Big 12 Conference to make the cut. (2008) K-State is committed to individualized education Freshman English classes have no more than 22 students, introductory chemistry labs average 15 students, introductory art classes average 19 students, and our speech classes are limited to 23 students. 90% of our classes have 49 students or less, and our average class size for all undergraduate classes is 23 students. Only 4% of our classes have 100 students or more.

K-State students have an outstanding record of acceptance into professional schools Over the past four years, 70% of our qualified pre-med applicants were accepted into medical schools; 100% of our pre-optometry and 82% of our pre-dentistry students were accepted into their respective professional schools. Over the past five years, 98% of students who participated in our pre-law program were accepted into law schools.

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