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WE'RE ON THE LIST
Value
Top 100: best values among public colleges
Kiplinger's Personal Finance (2007)
Top 150: America's best value colleges
The Princeton Review (2007)
#85: best values among public colleges
Kiplinger’s Personal Finance (2006)
#5: best bargain public colleges
The Best 357 Colleges (2005)
#16: best values among public colleges
Consumers Digest (2004)
Best value college
The Unofficial, Unbiased Guide to the 328 Most Interesting Colleges (2004)
Best value for your tuition dollar
Newsweek/Kaplan Report (2002)
Top 100: best college buys
The Student Guide to America’s Best College Buys (1999)
Quality
Top 25: America's best "cutting-edge schools"
You Are Here: A Guide to Over 380 Colleges and Unlimited Paths to Your Future (2008)
Best western college: colleges that stand out in the region
The Best 366 Colleges (2008)
One of America's 369 most interesting schools
Newsweek/Kaplan's How to Get into College (2007)
One of America's best colleges
The Best 361 Colleges (2007)
42: number of programs recommended as among the nation's best
Rugg’s Recommendations on the Colleges (2006)
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#1 Kansas college
Washington Monthly ranking of schools that best serve the nation (2006)
33: number of programs recommended as among the nation's best
Rugg’s Recommendations on the Colleges (2005)
Best in the West: colleges that stand out in the region
The Best 361 Colleges (2006)
#15: "most connected" computing campuses
The Princeton Review (2005)
Best in the West: colleges that stand out in the region
The Best 357 Colleges (2005)
Schools that attract high school presidents and valedictorians
The Unofficial, Unbiased Guide to the 328 Most Interesting Colleges (2004)
#47: “most unwired” colleges (wireless access)
Intel (2004)
#70: “most connected” computing campuses
The Princeton Review (2004)
One of the best public colleges
Institutional Research and Evaluation annual survey (2003)
Best opportunity to maximize your education
Rugg’s Recommendations on the Colleges (2003)
Top 100: “most-wired” campuses
Yahoo Internet Life (2001)
Cool
#13: America's fittest colleges
Muscle and Fitness (2005)
Schools where students enjoy themselves so much they never want to leave
The Unofficial, Unbiased Guide to the 328 Most Interesting Colleges (2004)
Top 100 coolest colleges
Seventeen (2002)
“Hot and trendy” college choice
Newsweek/Kaplan Report (2002)
Our scholars match the nation's best
How we rank
K-State ranks first nationally among state universities in its total of Rhodes, Marshall, Truman, Goldwater, and Udall scholars since 1986. Our students have won more than $2 million in those five competitions and have earned K-State a place among the nation's elite universities.
Rank among all universities
1. Harvard
2. Yale
3. Stanford
4. Princeton
5. Duke
6. K-State
7. Brown
8. Chicago
9. Cornell
10. MIT
Rank among state universities
#1 in all-time Truman scholars
#1 in all-time Goldwater scholars
#2 in Rhodes scholars since 1986
#2 in Marshall scholars since 1986 (tied)
#3 in all-time Udall scholars (tied)
See more rankings, a complete scholars archive, and details about last year's winners
OUR STUDENTS WIN BIG
K-State students compete to win. K-Staters earned national top 10 rankings in forensics, airplane design, financial planning, cheerleading, and more during the 2006-2007 school year.
Our professors top the list
You'll study under some superstar professors. In 2007 K-State became the only university to win both the national and state Professor of the Year awards in the same year.
The awards, presented by Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, recognize America's top teachers.
No other university in Kansas has produced a national Professor of the Year.
How we rank in Carnegie/CASE awards
Top 10 among all public and private universities
#1 among all Kansas universities
See our complete list of winners