awards and rankings
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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
One of America's best colleges
The Best 371 Colleges (2010)
One of the best western colleges
The Best 371 Colleges (2010)
#1 Kansas college
Washington Monthly national university college rankings (2009)
One of America's best public colleges
U.S. News & World Report (2009)
One of America's best colleges
The Best 368 Colleges (2009)
Top 25: America's best "cutting-edge schools"
You Are Here: A Guide to Over 380 Colleges and Unlimited Paths to Your Future (2008)
One of the best western colleges
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)
See majors
#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)
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 and connected
One of the nation's most military-friendly colleges
G.I. Jobs magazine (2010)
#16: Schools where campus/community relations are great
The Best 371 Colleges (2010)
#19: Schools where campus/community relations are great
The Best 368 Colleges (2009)
One of the nation's most military-friendly universities
Military Advanced Education magazine (2008)
One of the nation's most military-friendly universities
Military Advanced Education magazine (2007)
#13: America's fittest colleges
Muscle and Fitness (2005)
#47: “most unwired” colleges (wireless access)
Intel (2004)
#70: “most connected” computing campuses
The Princeton Review (2004)
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)


