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K-State
Founded in February 1863 as the
first land-grant institution under the Morrill Act, Kansas
State University has evolved into an internationally-recognized
comprehensive university that offers excellent academic
programs, a lively intellectual and cultural atmosphere,
and a friendly campus to its community of approximately
23,000 undergraduate and more than 4,000 graduate students.
The university has a research funding base of more than
$60 million per year and is ranked in the prestigious
top 100 research universities in the United States by
the National Science Foundation.
 Since
1974, K-State has been in the top one percent of all U.S.
universities in the number of graduates selected to be
Rhodes Scholars. Among state universities, K-State ranks
first in the number of Truman and Goldwater Scholars.
These accomplishments at the undergraduate level attest
to the quality of our faculty and their commitment to
education.
Kansas State University offers 65 master's and 45 doctoral
degree programs. The Graduate School office is located
in historic Fairchild Hall, named in honor of George Fairchild,
president of the University from 1879 to 1897.
Research and scholarly activities are wide ranging. Examples
of areas for graduate study are: atomic physics, automated
manufacturing, business administration, cancer biology,
computational science and engineering, creative writing,
educational administration and leadership, energy, feed
and milling science and management, food science, genetic
diseases in animals, hazardous substances, industrial
and organizational psychology, infectious disease research,
landscape architecture, marriage and family therapy, military
history, prairie ecology, regional and community planning,
rural sociology, space biology, statistics, surface chemistry,
and wheat genetics and breeding.
Kansas State University is fully accredited by the North
Central Accrediting Association and by various professional
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