UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
“I get to carry on the tradition and pride that comes with being at athlete at this school. There is just so much history and I am proud to be a part of that and to have made history here.”
Emily Starr
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Enrollment: 28,718 International enrollment: Over 1500 students from 110 countries KU offers study abroad opportunities in over 70 different countries. 26 Rhodes Scholars have graduated from KU. That is more than all other Kansas universities combined! The 2012 incoming freshman class had an average ACT score of 25.1, the highest ever for a KU incoming class. KU has more than 40 nationally ranked academic programs, 28 of which are ranked among the nation’s top 30 public schools. Two programs rank number one in the nation: special education and city management/ urban policy. KU offers nearly 200 fields of study in 13 schools, from architecture, music and engineering to medicine, social welfare and law. KU’s popular Four-Year Tuition Compact freezes tuition rates for four years for first-time freshmen. The Jayhawk Generations Scholarship offers a 12 to 20 percent discount on out-of-state tuition for qualifying children of KU alumni who live outside Kansas. The William Allen White School of Journalism & Mass Communication won the Intercollegiate Writing Competition, also known as the “College Pulitzers,” for three straight years from 2007 to 2009 and the student newspaper, The University Daily Kansan, was named the sixth-best collegiate newspaper in the country by the Princeton Review.