List of colleges and universities in Kansas

The following is a list of college
College
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s and universities
University
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in the U.S. state

U.S. state

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of Kansas

Kansas

Kansas is a US state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south...

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The Kansas Board of Regents

Kansas Board of Regents

The Kansas Board of Regents is a body consisting of nine members which governs six state universities in the U.S. state of Kansas. In addition to these six universities, it also supervises and coordinates nineteen community colleges, five technical colleges, six technical schools and a municipal...

governs six state universities, and supervises and coordinates 19 community colleges, five technical colleges, six technical schools and a municipal university. The Board also authorizes private and out-of-state institutions to operate in Kansas with a Certificate of Approval renewed annually. These schools offer instruction for business trade, technical, or industrial occupations leading to a certificate, diploma, or academic degree.

Private colleges and universities

There are many schools not on this list that have operations in Kansas but do not have their main campus in the state (such as Arkansas State University

Arkansas State University

Arkansas State University is a public university and is the flagship campus of the Arkansas State University System, the state's second largest college system and third largest university by enrollment. It is located atop on Crowley's Ridge at Jonesboro, Arkansas, USA...

The Art Institutes International – Kansas City
The Art Institutes International – Kansas City
The Art Institutes International – Kansas City is one of The Art Institutes, a system of more than 40 educational institutions located throughout North America, providing education in design, media arts, fashion and culinary arts....
Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary - Great Plains
Baker University
Baker University
Baker University is a private, residential university located in Baldwin City, Kansas, United States. Founded in 1858, it is the oldest university in Kansas and is affiliated with the United Methodist Church. Baker University is made up of four schools...
Barclay College
Barclay College
Barclay College is a private, Religious Society of Friends four-year college in Haviland, Kansas. The mission of Barclay College is to prepare students in a Bible-centered environment for effective Christian life, service and leadership. It is known for ministry degrees, but the school also offers...
Benedictine College
Benedictine College
Benedictine College is a co-educational university in Atchison, Kansas, founded in 1971 by the merger of St. Benedict's College for men and Mount St. Scholastica College for women. It is a Roman Catholic, Benedictine, liberal arts, and residential college located on bluffs overlooking the...
Bethany College
Bethany College (Kansas)
Bethany College is a small liberal arts college located in Lindsborg, Kansas and is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America . The college's mission is to educate, develop and challenge individuals to reach for truth and excellence as they lead loves of faith, learning and service...
Bethel College
Bethel College (Kansas)
Bethel College is a private college affiliated with Mennonite Church USA. The college is located on the edge of the Flint Hills and the vast wheat fields of south central Kansas in the town of North Newton...
Brown Mackie
Brown Mackie College
Brown Mackie College is a collection of for-profit educational institutions for career preparation in the business, legal, health sciences, information technology, and creative fields. The system of schools has locations throughout the United States. The schools are owned by Education Management...
Central Christian College
Central Christian College
Central Christian College of Kansas , an evangelical Christian college embracing the Wesleyan tradition, is affiliated with the Free Methodist Church. While accepting and supporting the doctrines of the Free Methodist Church, Central opens its door and solicits students, regardless of handicap,...
Cleveland Chiropractic College
Cleveland Chiropractic College
Cleveland Chiropractic College The Cleveland Chiropractic College multicampus system is known primarily for its Doctor of Chiropractic degree program, but offers other educational options in the health sciences. The college was started by one of the first families of chiropractic and has locations...
Friends University
Friends University
Friends University is a private non-denominational Christian university in Wichita, Kansas.Friends University was founded in 1898. The main building was originally built in 1886 for Garfield University, but was donated in 1898 to the Religious Society of Friends by James Davis, a St. Louis...
Hesston College
Hesston College
Hesston College, a two-year college founded in 1909, is located in Hesston, Kansas, United States, north of Wichita. The college has an enrollment of about 450 students who typically come from about 30 states and 30 other countries...
ITT Technical Institute, Wichita Kansas
ITT Technical Institute
ITT Technical Institute is a for-profit technical institute with over 130 campuses in 38 states of the United States. ITT Tech is owned and operated by ITT Educational Services, Inc. , a publicly traded company headquartered in Carmel, Indiana. ITT Educational Services, Inc...
Kansas City College and Bible School
Kansas City College and Bible School
Kansas City College and Bible School is a Christian college in Overland Park, KS.It is affiliated with the Church of God , an association of autonomous holiness Christian congregations, an outgrowth of the 19th-century holiness movement. It operates Overland Christian Schools, K thru 12, which are...
Kansas Wesleyan University
Kansas Wesleyan University
Kansas Wesleyan University is a private four-year Methodist college founded in Salina, Kansas in 1886. It is affiliated with the United Methodist Church...
Manhattan Christian College
Manhattan Christian College
Manhattan Christian College is an institution of higher learning located in Manhattan, Kansas, USA. Manhattan Christian College was founded in 1927 as Christian Workers University. The name was changed to Manhattan Bible College in 1930...
McPherson College
McPherson College
McPherson College was chartered in 1887 by the leaders of the Church of the Brethren. The college provides a career-oriented liberal arts education...
MidAmerica Nazarene University
MidAmerica Nazarene University
MidAmerica Nazarene University is a Christian liberal arts college in Olathe, Kansas. It was established in 1966 by the Church of the Nazarene.-History:Mid-America Nazarene College was founded in 1966...
National American University - Overland Park
National American University
National American University is a private for-profit university owned by National American University Holdings, Inc. Headquartered in Rapid City, SD, NAU operates multiple locations in the United States and an online division....
Newman University
Newman University
Newman University is a coeducational Catholic liberal arts university in Wichita, Kansas, United States. The university offers both undergraduate and masters level programs.-History:...
Ottawa University
Ottawa University
Ottawa University is a private, non-profit, faith-based liberal arts college located in Ottawa, Kansas. It was founded in 1865 and is affiliated with the American Baptist Churches USA...
St. Mary's College and Academy
St. Mary's College, Kansas
Saint Mary's Academy and College is a religious school of the Society of St. Pius X located in St. Marys, Kansas, 25 miles west of Topeka.- St. Mary's College :...
Southwestern College
Southwestern College (Kansas)
Southwestern College is a four-year private college affiliated with the United Methodist Church located in Winfield, Kansas, United States. It was founded in 1885 and graduated its first class in 1889. In addition to its campus programs, it offers online programs.-Academics:The main campus is a...
Sterling College
Sterling College (Kansas)
Sterling College is a Christ-centered, four-year liberal arts college located in Sterling, Kansas with a mission "to develop creative and thoughtful leaders who understand a maturing Christian faith." The school is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools and...
Tabor College
Tabor College, Kansas
Tabor College is a four-year Christian liberal arts college in Hillsboro, Kansas, United States. It was founded in 1908 by members of the Mennonite Brethren and Krimmer Mennonite Brethren Christian churches...
University of Saint Mary
University of Saint Mary (Kansas)
The University of Saint Mary is a private liberal arts university in Leavenworth, Kansas. It is sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth, who established it as Saint Mary College. Though it was originally a school for women, the school is now coeducational. St. Mary's Academy for high...
Kansas College of Chinese Medicine
Vatterott College

State universities

Emporia State University
Emporia State University
Emporia State University is a university in the city of Emporia in Lyon County, Kansas, just east of the Flint Hills.- History :...
Fort Hays State University
Fort Hays State University
Fort Hays State University is a public, co-educational university located in Hays, Kansas, United States. It is the fourth-largest of the six state universities governed by the Kansas Board of Regents, with an enrollment of approximately 11,200 students .- History :FHSU was founded in 1902 as the...
Kansas State University
Kansas State University
Kansas State University, commonly shortened to K-State, is an institution of higher learning located in Manhattan, Kansas, in the United States...
Pittsburg State University
Pittsburg State University
Pittsburg State University, also called Pitt State or PSU, is a public university with approximately 7,100 students located in Pittsburg, Kansas, United States. A large percentage of the student population consists of residents within the Pittsburg region; the gender proportion is relatively equal...
University of Kansas
University of Kansas
The University of Kansas is a public research university and the largest university in the state of Kansas. KU campuses are located in Lawrence, Wichita, Overland Park, and Kansas City, Kansas with the main campus being located in Lawrence on Mount Oread, the highest point in Lawrence. The...
Wichita State University
Wichita State University
Wichita State University is a NCAA Division I public university in Wichita, Kansas with selective admissions. WSU is one of six state universities governed by the Kansas Board of Regents. The current president is Dr. Donald Beggs....

Federal or Military colleges and universities

Haskell Indian Nations University
Haskell Indian Nations University
Haskell Indian Nations University is a tribal university located in Lawrence, Kansas, for members of federally recognized Native American tribes in the United States...
United States Army Command and General Staff College

Community colleges

Allen County Community College
Barton County Community College
Barton County Community College
Barton Community College is a two-year junior college located in Great Bend, Kansas. Its service area includes Barton, Ellsworth, Pawnee, Rush and Russell Counties,Stafford County north of US Highway 50, and northwestern Rice County.Athletics:The school is more commonly known for it nationally...
Butler County Community College
Cloud County Community College
Cloud County Community College
Cloud County Community College is a two-year public community college with campuses in Concordia, Kansas population 5,395, and Junction City, Kansas, United States population 23,353.-Concordia campus:...
Coffeyville Community College and Area Technical School
Coffeyville Community College
Coffeyville Community College is a community college located in Coffeyville, Kansas, United States. It was founded in 1923....
Colby Community College
Colby Community College
Colby Community College is an institution located in Colby, Kansas, United States, established in 1964. It has an indoor swimming pool, Baseball field, softball field, wrestling room, gym , a non-profit classic rock radio station , and a clock tower. Their school colors are blue and white, and...
Cowley County Community College
Cowley County Community College
Cowley College is a two-year college located in Arkansas City, Kansas. It also operates satellite facilities in nearby Winfield, Wellington, Mulvane, and Wichita, and offers distance-learning classes at nine area high schools. Cowley College is accredited by the NCA's Higher Learning Commission.-...
Dodge City Community College
Dodge City Community College
Dodge City Community College is located on the Central High Plains in Ford County, southwest Kansas.-Campus:For 22 years, the College was located on the third floor of the Senior High School Building at 1601 First Avenue. By 1957, it had grown large enough to require a move to a different...
Fort Scott Community College
Fort Scott Community College
Fort Scott Community College is a two-year institution of higher learning based in Fort Scott, Kansas, with satellite buildings in other cities in Crawford County, including Pittsburg and Frontenac, along with sites in Paola and at Fort Scott High School. It is the oldest community college in...
Garden City Community College
Garden City Community College
Garden City Community College is a fully accredited community college located in Garden City, Kansas, USA. GCCC has regional accreditation by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools...
Highland Community College
Highland Community College (Kansas)
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Hutchinson Community College
Hutchinson Community College
Hutchinson Community College is a two-year college located in Hutchinson, Kansas. Its mascot is the Blue Dragon. Philadelphia Phillies reliever Mike Zagurski attended the school.-External links:*...
Independence Community College
Independence Community College
Independence Community College is a community college in Independence, Kansas, United States. It is located between Tulsa, Kansas City, Wichita, Kansas and Joplin, Missouri and was formerly known as Independence Community Junior College....
Johnson County Community College
Johnson County Community College
Johnson County Community College Is referred to locally by the synechdoche "Ju-co", and is located in Overland Park, Kansas at College Boulevard and Quivira Road.-History:...
Kansas City Kansas Community College
Kansas City Kansas Community College
Kansas City Kansas Community College is a public two year community college located in Kansas City, Kansas. Kansas City Kansas Community College is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission, a commission of the North Central Association and the Kansas Board of Regents...
Labette Community College
Labette Community College
Labette Community College is a two year accredited college located in Labette County within southeast Kansas. LCC is situated within Labette County’s most populous city Parsons, Kansas, and was first established in the fall of 1923 as Parsons Junior College. The mascot of the school is Chris the...
Neosho County Community College
Neosho County Community College
Neosho County Community College is located in Chanute, Kansas, USA and a secondary campus is located in Ottawa, Kansas. NCCC began in 1936 as Chanute junior college for graduates of high school. In 1961, due to state legislators Chanute Junior College included both Neosho County and Franklin...
Pratt Community College
Pratt Community College
-External links:* official website...
Seward County Community College
Seward County Community College
Seward County Community College is a community college in Liberal, Kansas, United States. Established on December 29, 1967, its classes officially started on September 2, 1969.-Notable alumni:...

Technical colleges and schools

American Institute of Baking
American Institute of Baking
The American Institute of Baking is a not-for-profit corporation, founded by the North American wholesale and retail baking industries in 1919 as a technology transfer center for bakers and food processors...
Coffeyville Community College and Area Technical School
Coffeyville Community College
Coffeyville Community College is a community college located in Coffeyville, Kansas, United States. It was founded in 1923....
Kaw Area Technical School (Now Washburn Institute of Technology)
Washburn Institute of Technology
Washburn Institute of Technology is an Institute of technology located in Topeka, Kansas. It houses a variety of programs for nursing, auto tech, culinary arts and much more. It is administered under Washburn University....
Wichita Area Technical College
Wichita Area Technical College
Wichita Area Technical College is a technical college located in Wichita, Kansas. The school is coordinated by the [Kansas Board of Regents] and governed by the Sedgwick County Technical Training Authority Board . The college has been in operation since 1965 and currently offers associates...
Manhattan Area Technical College
Manhattan Area Technical College
' is a technical college located in Manhattan, Kansas. The College offers Associate of Applied Science degrees in 9 disciplines, with Technical Certificate programs in many others. The school has been in continuous operation since 1965. Manhattan Area Technical College is fully accredited through...
Pinnacle Career Institute
Pinnacle Career Institute
Pinnacle Career Institute is a career college with locations in North and South Kansas City, Missouri; in Lawrence, Kansas; and on-line. PCI has been in existence for more than fifty years and allows students to earn certificates and degrees. The Kansas City campuses are accredited by the...
Flint Hills Technical College
Northwest Kansas Technical College
Salina Area Technical College
North Central Kansas Technical College

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