Editing University of Kansas (section)

==Academics==
{{Infobox US university ranking
<!-- National rankings -->
| Forbes_NU     = 182
| USNWR_NU      = 151 <small>(tie)</small>
| Wamo_NU       = 191
| WSJ_NU        = 198
<!-- Global rankings -->
| QS_W          = 452 <small>(tie)</small>
| THE_W         = 351–400
| USNWR_W       = 332 <small>(tie)</small>
| ARWU_W= 301–400
}}
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! colspan=4 style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Kansas Jayhawks|color=#ffffff}}" |National Program Rankings<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/university-of-kansas-155317/overall-rankings |title=University of Kansas - Overall Rankings |date=April 9, 2024 |website=[[U.S. News & World Report]] |access-date=August 13, 2024 }}</ref>
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! Program
! Ranking
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| Audiology || 19 <small>(tie)</small>
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| Biological Sciences || 88 <small>(tie)</small>
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| Biostatistics || 52 <small>(tie)</small>
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| Business || 60 <small>(tie)</small>
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| Chemistry || 67 <small>(tie)</small>
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| Clinical Psychology || 18 <small>(tie)</small>
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| Computer Science || 105 <small>(tie)</small>
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| Earth Sciences || 59 <small>(tie)</small>
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| Economics || 79 <small>(tie)</small>
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| Education || 20
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| Engineering || 124 <small>(tie)</small>
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| English || 69 <small>(tie)</small>
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| Fine Arts || 64 <small>(tie)</small>
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| Health Care Management || 47 <small>(tie)</small>
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| History || 54 <small>(tie)</small>
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| Law || 46 <small>(tie)</small>
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| Mathematics || 66 <small>(tie)</small>
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| Medicine: Primary Care || Tier 1
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| Medicine: Research || Tier 3
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| Nursing: Anesthesia || 36 <small>(tie)</small>
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| Nursing: Midwifery || 8 <small>(tie)</small>
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| Nursing: Master's || Unranked
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| Nursing: Doctorate || Unranked
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| Occupational Therapy || 22 <small>(tie)</small>
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| Pharmacy || 19 <small>(tie)</small>
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| Physical Therapy || 11 <small>(tie)</small>
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| Physics || 78 <small>(tie)</small>
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| Political Science || 68 <small>(tie)</small>
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| Psychology || 51 <small>(tie)</small>
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| Public Affairs || 26 <small>(tie)</small>
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| Public Health || 88 <small>(tie)</small>
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| Social Work || 36 <small>(tie)</small>
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| Sociology || 64 <small>(tie)</small>
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| Speech-Language Pathology || 9 <small>(tie)</small>
|}

{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible collapsed" style="float:right; clear:right; text-align:center"
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! colspan=4 style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Kansas Jayhawks|color=#ffffff}}" |Global Program Rankings<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/university-of-kansas-155317 |title=University of Kansas in United States - US News Best Global Universities |date=June 24, 2024 |website=[[U.S. News & World Report]] |access-date=August 13, 2024 }}</ref>
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! Program
! Ranking
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| Art and Humanities || 198
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| Biology and Biochemistry || 515 <small>(tie)</small>
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| Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems || 203
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| Chemistry || 759 <small>(tie)</small>
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| Clinical Medicine || 236
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| Ecology || 188
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| Engineering || 667 <small>(tie)</small>
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| Environment/Ecology || 251
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| Gastroenterology and Hepatology || 166 <small>(tie)</small>
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| Geosciences || 312
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| Mathematics || 338 <small>(tie)</small>
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| Molecular Biology and Genetics || 302 <small>(tie)</small>
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| Neurosciences and Behavior || 267 <small>(tie)</small>
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| Oncology || 159 <small>(tie)</small>
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| Pharmacology and Toxicology || 192 <small>(tie)</small>
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| Physics || 375
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| Plant and Animal Science || 286 <small>(tie)</small>
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| Psychiatry/Psychology || 192
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| Public, Environmental and Occupational Health || 285 <small>(tie)</small>
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| Social Sciences and Public Health || 242 <small>(tie)</small>
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| Surgery || 242
|}

The University of Kansas is a large, state-sponsored university with five campuses. KU is a member of the [[Association of American Universities]] (AAU)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aau.edu/who-we-are/our-members|title=Our Members – Association of American Universities|website=www.aau.edu|access-date=February 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190323100635/https://www.aau.edu/who-we-are/our-members|archive-date=March 23, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> and is [[Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education|classified]] among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".<ref name="Carnegie">{{cite web |title=Carnegie Classifications Institution Lookup |url=https://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=155317 |publisher=Center for Postsecondary Education |website=carnegieclassifications.iu.edu |access-date=July 25, 2020}}</ref> KU features the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, which includes the School of the Arts and the School of Public Affairs & Administration; and the schools of Architecture, Design & Planning; Business; Education; Engineering; Health Professions; Journalism & Mass Communications; Law; Medicine; Music; Nursing; Pharmacy; and Social Welfare. The university offers more than 345 degree programs. In 2017 [[Johnson County, Kansas|Johnson County]] accounted for most of instate enrollment.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://kuinfo.ku.edu/which-kansas-counties-have-highest-number-students-attending-ku |title=Which Kansas counties have the highest number of students attending KU? &#124; KU Info |access-date=November 26, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191224230818/https://kuinfo.ku.edu/which-kansas-counties-have-highest-number-students-attending-ku |archive-date=December 24, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>

According to the [[National Science Foundation]], KU spent $339 million on research and development in 2018, ranking it 74th in the nation.<ref>{{cite web |title=Table 20. Higher education R&D expenditures, ranked by FY 2018 R&D expenditures: FYs 2009–18  |url=https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/herd/2018/html/herd18-dt-tab020.html |website=ncsesdata.nsf.gov |publisher=[[National Science Foundation]] |access-date=July 24, 2020}}</ref>

===School of Architecture and Design===
{{main|University of Kansas School of Architecture and Design}}
The University of Kansas School of Architecture and Design (ArcD), with its main building being Marvin Hall, traces its architectural roots to the creation of the [[architectural engineering]] degree program in KU's School of Engineering in 1912. The Bachelor of Architecture degree was added in 1920. In 1969, the School of Architecture and Urban Design (SAUD) was formed. In 2001, architectural engineering merged with civil and environmental engineering. The design programs from the discontinued School of Fine Arts were merged into the school in 2009, forming the School of Architecture and Design.

The Department of Design began in 1921. The Bachelor of Fine Arts degree program began eight years later. Industrial Design was added in 1941, interior design in 1946, jewelry and silversmithing, art history, and the Masters of Fine Arts program in 1948.

In 2009, the university reorganized the School of Fine Arts. The professional design practice programs became the Department of Design, administratively located in the School of Architecture and Design.

===School of Business===
{{main|University of Kansas School of Business}}
The University of Kansas School of Business is a public business school on the main campus of the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. The KU School of Business was founded in 1924 and has more than 80 faculty members and approximately 1500 students.<ref name="Business History">{{cite web|url=http://www2.ku.edu/~business/alumni/distinguished/|title=KU Business History|website=2.ku.edu|access-date=October 12, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141018170620/http://www2.ku.edu/~business/alumni/distinguished/|archive-date=October 18, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>

Named one of the best business schools in the Midwest by Princeton Review, the KU School of Business has been continually accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) for its undergraduate and graduate programs in business and accounting.<ref name="KUKC">{{cite web|url=http://mbacocktail.com/blog/tag/lawrence/|title=KU in KC region|website=Mbacocktail.com|access-date=October 12, 2014|archive-url=https://archive.today/20131030093619/http://mbacocktail.com/blog/tag/lawrence/|archive-date=October 30, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref>
[[File:Lippincott Hall and James Woods Green Memorial.jpg|thumb|right|Lippincott Hall – Offices of Study Abroad and The Wilcox Museum]]

For 2021, ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'' ranked KU's business school 68th out of 477 evaluated.<ref name=Grad>{{cite web|url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/university-of-kansas-155317/overall-rankings|magazine=U.S. News & World Report|title=University of Kansas's Graduate School Rankings|access-date=October 12, 2020}}</ref>

In 2016, The University of Kansas completed construction on a new home for the business school, named Capitol Federal Hall. It is located at 1654 Naismith Drive, near KU's Rec Center and across the street from [[Allen Fieldhouse]]. Capitol Federal Hall is a 166,500 square-foot building complete with state-of-the-art technology and several research labs.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Shepherd|first1=Sara|title=A look inside Capitol Federal Hall, KU School of Business' new home|url=http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2016/may/12/inside-capitol-federal-hall-new-home-ku-school-bus/|website=Lawrence Journal World|access-date=April 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180413043617/http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2016/may/12/inside-capitol-federal-hall-new-home-ku-school-bus/|archive-date=April 13, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

===School of Law===
{{main|University of Kansas School of Law}}
The University of Kansas School of Law, founded in 1878, was the top law school in the state of Kansas, and tied for 70th out of 198 nationally, according to the 2021 ''U.S. News & World Report'' rankings.<ref name=Grad/> Classes are held in Green Hall at W 15th St and Burdick Dr, which is named after former dean James Green.<ref name="Location">{{cite web|url=http://www.law.ku.edu/contact|title=James Green Hall|website=Law.ku.edu|access-date=October 12, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006070114/http://law.ku.edu/contact|archive-date=October 6, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>

===School of Engineering===
{{main|University of Kansas School of Engineering}}
The KU School of Engineering is a public engineering school located on the main campus. The School of Engineering was founded officially in 1891, although engineering degrees were awarded as early as 1873.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.engr.ku.edu/about/tradition.html|title=Tradition|website=Engr.ku.edu|access-date=October 12, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006171514/http://www.engr.ku.edu/about/tradition.html|archive-date=October 6, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In the ''U.S. News & World Report''{{'}}s "America's Best Colleges" 2021 issue, KU's School of Engineering was ranked tied for 102nd among 218 engineering schools whose highest degree is a doctorate.<ref name=Grad/>

Notable alumni include [[Charles E. Spahr]] (1934), the former CEO of [[Standard Oil of Ohio]].

===School of Journalism and Mass Communications===

[[File:Stauffer-Flint Hall.JPG|thumb|The William Allen White School of Journalism]]

In addition to its academic programs, the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications sponsors publications including ''[[The University Daily Kansan]]'', ''Jayplay'' magazine, and KUJH TV.
[[File:Dyche Hall.JPG|thumb|The Natural History Museum]]

===Medical Center===
{{main|University of Kansas Medical Center}}
{{see also|University of Kansas School of Medicine}}
The University of Kansas Medical Center features three schools: the School of Medicine, School of Nursing, and School of Health Professions that each has its own programs of graduate study. As of the Fall 2013 semester, there were 3,349 students enrolled at KU Med.<ref name="studentprofile">{{cite web|title=University of Kansas Profiles:Net Registration Head Count Enrollment|url=http://www2.ku.edu/~oirp/profiles/new/4-153.pdf|access-date=November 7, 2013 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140419044555/http://www2.ku.edu/~oirp/profiles/new/4-153.pdf|archive-date=April 19, 2014}}</ref> The Medical Center also offers four-year instruction at the [[Wichita, Kansas|Wichita]] campus, and features a medical school campus in [[Salina, Kansas]] devoted to rural health care.

The [[University of Kansas Health System]] is co-located at the University of Kansas Medical Center.

===Edwards Campus, Overland Park===
KU's Edwards Campus is in [[Overland Park, Kansas]]. Established in 1993, its goal is to provide adults with the opportunity to complete undergraduate, graduate, and certificate programs. About 2,000 students attend the Edwards Campus, with an average age of 31.<ref>{{cite web|title=About KU Edwards Campus|url=http://edwardscampus.ku.edu/about-ku-edwards-campus|access-date=November 7, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131031034153/http://edwardscampus.ku.edu/about-ku-edwards-campus|archive-date=October 31, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref>

===University of Kansas Leavenworth===
Near the beginning of the 2018–2019 school year, KU launched classes in [[Leavenworth, Kansas]], offering classes to "both civilian and military" students, emphasizing a "high priority in supporting military-affiliated students". The Leavenworth classes offer both undergraduate and graduate courses.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://leavenworth.ku.edu/becomes-home|title=University of Kansas in Leavenworth|date=June 18, 2015|website=Undergraduate Admissions|access-date=February 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190207072344/http://leavenworth.ku.edu/becomes-home|archive-date=February 7, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Computing innovations===
KU's School of Business launched [[interdisciplinary]] [[management science]] graduate studies in [[operations research]] during Fall Semester 1965. The program provided the foundation for [[decision science]] applications supporting [[NASA]] [[Project Apollo]] Command Capsule Recovery Operations.

KU's academic computing department was an active participant in setting up the Internet and is the developer of the early [[Lynx (browser)|Lynx]] text-based [[web browser]]. Lynx provided [[hypertext]] browsing and navigation prior to [[Tim Berners Lee]]'s invention of [[HTTP]] and [[HTML]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Early Lynx|url=http://people.cc.ku.edu/~grobe/early-lynx.html|access-date=September 7, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110501215327/http://people.cc.ku.edu/~grobe/early-lynx.html|archive-date=May 1, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref>