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Established in 1865, The University of Kansas (KU) is a public research university and the largest in the U.S. state of Kansas. KU branch campuses are located in the towns of Lawrence, Wichita, Overland Park, Salina, and Kansas City, Kansas, with the main campus located in Lawrence on Mount Oread, the highest location in Lawrence. The university has the total staff of 2,600 teachers and an enrollment of 28,000 students as per the data collected in Fall 2015.
Lawrence is popularly known as a ‘college town’ and is the home to the University of Kansas and Haskell Indian Nations University. It has a stable population and the city is not over populated. There is a good amount of privacy provided for students at Kansas due to less population and the city is pretty safe throughout the year. Kansas carries a good historical value to itself. With a few pretty museums and architectural sites the city holds fine value in terms of tourism.
The campus stands on a hill named Mount Oread which now is popularly known as ‘College town’. The campus consists of 1,100 acres of total area which is huge in terms of its establishment. Due to its historical construction the campus itself has few historical monuments which are considered as heritage now. The infrastructure feels like a new era all together. The campus has numerous libraries few of which are; the Watson Library, Spencer Research Library, and Anschutz Library, which commemorates the businessman Philip Anschutz, an alumnus of the University.
The housing within the campus is great. There are various options on to live on campus according to your lifestyle. The housing cost can go up till 4,500 US$ which is comparatively cheap and meal plans can cost up to 3,000 US$ for a year.
The location lies between humid tropical and humid sub-tropical region due to which you may experience typically experiencing hot, humid summers and cold, dry winters. The monthly daily average temperature ranges from 28.4 °F (?2.0 °C) in January to 78.5 °F (25.8 °C) in July. The minimum temperature falls to or below 0 °F (?18 °C) on an average 4.9 days a year. These temperatures are rough for human bodies and do not tend to fever if you are still in the process of adaptability to it.
The faculty at UK takes every course pretty seriously. If the students tend to question the teaching process of professors then there are chances of an argument heating up. The teachers are considered as adamant and rude. Even if they are responsive to the student’s doubts, they teach more unrelated stuff to students. There have been cases that students have complained about teachers spending more time on teaching stuff that was not related to the syllabus and the radar has moved so far that teachers sometimes talk about sports and leave the books aside for which few scholar students have complaints on.
The university has provided a special administration for financial aid office which is away from the main university administration. This process helps to diminish the politics between both the offices as there is no contact between them and student gets to avail better concessions. The university conducts scholarships for which one must have good GRE grades. Apart from that your caste and creed are considered at times along with the annual income of your family.
The university has a good name among the firms due to its historical element and notable alumni. There is no doubt that a graduation certificate from this university wouldn’t land you at no man’s land. The university conducts placement exams for which you must have a good remark on your character and high grades which is compulsory in almost all universities.
If you are UK then all you will get to hear about is the sport event that is forthcoming or about to happen any time soon. The students do not have an eye beyond the sports event. If you are a sports freak and love watching any kind of sport even if it is a thumb fight then you will be accepted by everybody or else you might be friend-zoned or abandoned. The students have nothing else to talk apart from sports as Kansas is a small place and everybody knows each other because the whole city meets at the sport event. There are possibilities that your teacher isn’t in class today because he has a sport event to attend, specifically football. The town has a band name in case of international students. They would merely appreciate your talent and might be racist towards you.
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In the end if you aren’t a sports fan then you must keep on checking the university list because your life at UK might get worse. Other than that the engineering college of this university is pretty famous and they have a good faculty for that but again if your sports knowledge is low then you might have to bare few taunts and that might just ruin your few years unless you are a complete nerd. The university a lot to offer apart from just courses, you just need to have an eye for that.