About Western Kentucky University

Western Kentucky University is a public academic circles in Bowling Green, Kentucky. It was founded by the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1906, though its roots attain back a quarter-century earlier. It operates regional campuses in Glasgow, Elizabethtown-Fort Knox, and Owensboro.

The main campus, which has been undergoing enhance and renovation in the past the 1990s, sits atop a hill overlooking the Barren River valley.

Bowling Green is a house rule-class city and the county chair of Warren County, Kentucky, United States. Founded by pioneers in 1798, Bowling Green was the provisional capital of Confederate Kentucky during the American Civil War. As of 2019, its population of 70,543 made it the third-most-populous city in the state, after Louisville and Lexington; its metropolitan area, which is the fourth largest in the make a clean breast after Louisville, Lexington, and Northern Kentucky, had an estimated population of 179,240; and the collection statistical area it shares taking into account Glasgow has an estimated population of 233,560.

In the 21st century, it is the location of numerous manufacturers, including General Motors and Fruit of the Loom. The Bowling Green Assembly Plant has been the source of everything Chevrolet Corvettes built previously 1981. Bowling Green is also house to the state’s second-largest public university, Western Kentucky University. In 2014, Forbes magazine listed Bowling Green as one of the Top 25 Best Places to Retire in the United States.