About Wichita State University

Wichita State University (WSU) is a public research academic circles in Wichita, Kansas. It is governed by the Kansas Board of Regents. The academic world offers on height of 60 undergraduate degree programs in higher than 200 areas of psychotherapy in six colleges. The university’s graduate college offers 44 master’s degrees in over 100 areas and a specialist in education degree. It is classified among “R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity”.

Wichita State University with hosts classes at four satellite locations: WSU West in Maize, WSU South in Derby, and the WSU Downtown Center that houses the university’s Center for Community Support & Research, the Department of Physician Assistant, and the Department of Physical Therapy. A quarter-mile northeast of campus, the Advanced Education in General Dentistry building, built in 2011, houses classrooms and a dental clinic. It is adjacent to the university’s 75,000-square-foot (7,000 m2) Eugene M. Hughes Metropolitan Complex, where many of WSU noncredit courses are taught.

Wichita (/ˈwɪtʃɪtɔː/ WITCH-i-taw) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Sedgwick County. As of 2019, the estimated population of the city was 389,938. Wichita is the principal city of the Wichita metropolitan Place which had an estimated population of 644,888 in 2018.

Located in south-central Kansas on the Arkansas River, Wichita began as a trading post upon the Chisholm Trail in the 1860s and was incorporated as a city in 1870. It became a destination for cattle drives traveling north from Texas to Kansas railroads, earning it the nickname “Cowtown”.

In the 1920s and 1930s, businessmen and aeronautical engineers traditional aircraft manufacturing companies in Wichita, including Beechcraft, Cessna, and Stearman Aircraft. The city became an plane production hub known as “The Air Capital of the World.” Textron Aviation, Learjet, Airbus, and Spirit AeroSystems continue to accomplish design and manufacturing services in Wichita, and the city remains a major middle of the American aircraft industry. Several airports located within the city of Wichita add together McConnell Air Force Base, Colonel James Jabara Airport, and Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport, the largest airstrip in Kansas.

As an industrial hub, Wichita is a regional center of culture, media, and trade. It hosts several universities, large museums, theaters, parks, shopping centers, and entertainment venues, most notably Intrust Bank Arena and Century II Performing Arts & Convention Center. The city’s Old Cowtown Museum maintains historical artifacts and exhibits the city’s before history. Wichita State University is the third-largest post-secondary institution in the state.