Kansas State has an enrollment of approximately 19,000 undergraduate and 3,000 graduate students. The university has 60
academic departments in nine colleges: Agriculture; Architecture, Planning, and Design; Arts and
Sciences; Business Administration; Education; Engineering; Human Ecology;
Technology and Aviation; and
Veterinary Medicine. The A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communication is located within the college of arts and sciences and the graduate
school offers nearly 100 master programs and nearly 50 doctorate programs.In 1991, the former Kansas Technical
Institute in Salina, Kansas was merged with Kansas State
University by an act of the Kansas legislature. The College of Technology and Aviation
is now located at the Salina campus.Since 1986, Kansas State has added over 2 million square feet (186,000 m²) of buildings, including a new library, art museum
and plant sciences building. Enrollment has generally been between 21,000 and 24,000 since 1988. Solid, progressive research is conducted in agronomy, biosciences, electrical engineering, food science and the
social sciences. K-State has a strong endowment program and has
established alumni associations nationwide. KSU leads the nation in most number of Rhodes, Marshall, Goldwater, Truman and Udall
Scholarship winners. Students won more Goldwater and Truman Scholarships, and Phi Kappa Phi Fellowships than any other public
university in the nation. KSU is known for it's distinguished lecture series: Landon Lecture, Lou Douglas Lecture, Huck Boyd
Lecture and Dorothy Thompson Civil Rights series.