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Graduate Education

KU is a comprehensive research and teaching university that serves as a center for learning, scholarship and teaching. KU ranks among the top 50 public, national universities, according to U.S. News. KU awarded its first doctoral degree in 1896. Today graduate students pursue degrees in more than 90 programs, and Graduate Studies awards more than 250 doctorates a year. More than 6,000 graduate students call KU home.

KU has more than 40 affiliated research centers, institutes, and laboratories in the arts, humanities, sciences, high technology, business, engineering, and government. The Edwards Campus in Overland Park offers 21 graduate programs to working professionals.

U.S. News ranked 24 KU graduate programs — including city management, special education, community health, paleontology and speech-language-pathology — among the top 25 in the country.

Learn more about KU's top programs.