University of Central Oklahoma

The University of Kansas (KU) is a public research institution that has multiple satellite campuses, research and educational institutes, medical facilities, and classrooms located around the state of Kansas. The main campus of the university is located in Lawrence, Kansas, in the United States. On the Kansas side of the Kansas City metropolitan region, the institution has two branch campuses: the medical school and hospital of the university are located in Kansas City, Kansas, while the Edwards Campus is located in Overland Park. At addition, there are locations for teaching and research in Garden City, Hays, Leavenworth, Parsons, and Topeka. There is also a centre for agricultural education in the more rural part of north Douglas County, and there are campuses of the medical school in both Salina and Wichita. The institution is categorised as "R1: Doctoral Universities - Very high research activity," and it is a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU).

The university was established on March 21, 1865, and it first opened its doors in 1866. It operated under a charter that had been granted by the Kansas State Legislature in 1864 and legislation that had been passed in 1863 under the State Constitution. The State Constitution had been adopted two years after the 1861 admission of the former Kansas Territory as the 34th state into the Union.

There were 23,958 students registered at the Lawrence and Edwards campuses in the fall of 2021. There were an additional 3,727 students registered at the KU Medical Center (KUMC), bringing the total number of students registered at all three campuses to 27,685. In the autumn of 2021, the university as a whole (including KUMC) had a total of 4,776 faculty members (including professors, professors' administrative assistants, graduate student workers, and librarians).

As members of the Big 12 Conference, the athletic teams from the University of Kansas participate in NCAA Division I sports under the name Jayhawks. They compete at the varsity level in sixteen different sports and also have club teams for ice hockey, rugby, and men's volleyball.