unitid 155317 · Lawrence, KS · public 4-year · city (small)
University of Kansas
Public university in Lawrence, Kansas, US
- founded
- 1864
- enrollment 2023
- 29,413
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- ku.edu
- motto
- “Videbo visionem hanc magnam quare non comburatur rubus”
The University of Kansas (KU) is a public research university with its main campus in Lawrence, Kansas, United States. It is governed by the Kansas Board of Regents. Two branch campuses are in the Kansas City metropolitan area on the Kansas side: the university's medical school and hospital in Kansas City, Kansas; and the Edwards Campus in Overland Park. There are also educational and research sites in Garden City, Hays, Leavenworth, Parsons, and Topeka, an agricultural education center in rural north Douglas County, and branches of the medical school in Salina and Wichita. The university is a member of the Association of American Universities and classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". wikipedia rev 1359590520 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within public 4-years
The record
admission rate
93%
80th pctl among public 4-years
undergraduates
21,217
89th pctl among public 4-years
Pell share
20%
undergrads on Pell grants
17th pctl among public 4-years
completion
69%
finish within 150% time
88th pctl among public 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$26,751
74th pctl among public 4-years
avg net price / yr
$18,059
after aid, aided students
84th pctl among public 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$61,945
after entry, Title IV students
77th pctl among public 4-years
median grad debt
$21,000
63rd pctl among public 4-years
what families actually pay
Cost
Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.
Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort
Families earning under $30k paid $12,544 per year after aid.
Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of public 4-years (all incomes).
Who enrolls, by family income
- 0-30k18%
- 30-48k12%
- 48-75k16%
- 75-110k18%
- 110k+35%
- Median family income
- $64,241
- First-generation students
- 22%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $12,102
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 2.9× the median graduate debt.
Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.
What programs pay — top fields of study
| program | grads | earn 5 yr | debt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychology, General. | 291 | $49,969 | $22,415 |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 267 | $108,369 | — |
| Finance and Financial Management Services. | 206 | $90,997 | $20,354 |
| Social Work. | 204 | $57,755 | — |
| Journalism. | 203 | $62,205 | $22,811 |
| Medicine. | 203 | $183,730 | — |
| Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness. | 201 | $73,613 | $22,125 |
| Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing. | 191 | $82,749 | $20,500 |
| Marketing. | 188 | $83,828 | $21,893 |
| Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities. | 163 | — | — |
| Business/Commerce, General. | 149 | $67,236 | $24,480 |
| Computer and Information Sciences, General. | 138 | $94,912 | $27,000 |
— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.
annual scorecard files, 1996–2026
Trajectory
Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.
Admission rate
Price per year
- sticker
- net
Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry
Undergraduates
wikidata · 3,293 people recorded
Memory
Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field
Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade
People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.
Wikipedia attention
monthly article views since 2015
most recorded occupationsresearcher (715) · basketball player (616) · university teacher (348) · American football player (189) · politician (156) · lawyer (108) · writer (98) · entomologist (62)
Nobel laureates who studied here
- Vernon L. Smith Economics 2002
- Juan Manuel Santos Peace 2016
The portrait wall
Sized by nothing, ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).
Juan Manuel Santos
102 wikis · CC BY 3.0 br
Paul Rudd
78 wikis · CC BY 4.0
Wilt Chamberlain
71 wikis · Public domain
Clyde Tombaugh
70 wikis · Public domain
Bob Dole
60 wikis · Public domain
Mandy Patinkin
59 wikis · Public domain
Don Johnson
54 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Vernon L. Smith
51 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Paul Pierce
48 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Rex Stout
44 wikis · Public domain
Gillian Flynn
42 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Al Oerter
40 wikis · Public domain
Dee Wallace
40 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Scott Bakula
39 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ronald Evans
38 wikis · Public domain
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Provenance
- U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
- Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
- Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
- Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
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- Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1359590520), CC BY-SA 4.0.