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Wichita State University
Former names
Fairmount College
Municipal University of Wichita
Type State university
Established 1895 (1895)
Affiliation Kansas Board of Regents
Endowment $247.75 million (2017)
President Andy Tompkins (interim)
Provost Rick Muma
Academic staff
520
Students 15,784 (fall 2018)
Location , ,
37°43′09″N 97°17′35″W / 37.71917°N 97.29306°W / 37.71917; -97.29306
Campus Urban, 330 acres (130 ha)
Colors Black and Shocker Yellow
         
Nickname Shockers
Sporting affiliations
NCAA Division IThe American
Mascot WuShock
Wichita State University logo.svg

Wichita State University (WSU) is a public research university in Wichita, Kansas, United States. It is governed by the Kansas Board of Regents.

Wichita State University offers more than 60 undergraduate degree programs in more than 200 areas of study in six colleges. The Graduate School offers 44 master's degrees in more than 100 areas and a specialist in education degree. It offers doctoral degrees in applied mathematics; audiology; chemistry; communicative disorders and sciences; nursing practice; physical therapy; psychology (programs in human factors, community and APA-accredited clinical psychology); educational administration; aerospace, industrial and mechanical engineering; and electrical engineering and computer science.

Wichita State University also has classes at four other campuses. WSU West is in Maize. This 9-acre (3.6 ha) campus has 80–100 university classes each academic semester. WSU South began started Wichita State University courses at a new facility in Derby in January 2008. The WSU Downtown Center has the university's Center for Community Support & Research and the Department of Physical Therapy. A quarter-mile northeast of campus, the Advanced Education in General Dentistry buildinghass classrooms and a dental clinic. It was built in 2011. It is next to the university's 75,000-square-foot (7,000 m2) Eugene M. Hughes Metropolitan Complex, where many of WSU noncredit courses are taught.

History

Wichita State University started in 1886 as a private Congregational preparatory school. It was created by Rev. Joseph Homer Parker.

On July 1, 1964, the school officially entered the state system of higher education as Wichita State University (WSU).



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