University of Kansas
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 University of Kansas facts

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• 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 in Lawrence on Mount Oread, the highest location in Lawrence
• Founded March 21, 1865, the university was opened in 1866, under a charter granted by the Kansas State Legislature in 1864 following enabling legislation passed in 1863 under the Kansas State Constitution, adopted two years after the 1861 admission of the former Kansas Territory as the 34th state into the Union following an internal civil war known as "Bleeding Kansas" during the 1850s
• The university's Medical Center and University Hospital are in Kansas City, Kansas
• The Edwards Campus is in Overland Park, Kansas, in the Kansas City metropolitan area
• There are also educational and research sites in Parsons, Topeka, Garden City, Hays, and Leavenworth, and branches of the University of Kansas School of Medicine in Wichita and Salina
• The university is one of the 62 members of the Association of American Universities
• Enrollment at the Lawrence and Edwards campuses was 24,708 students in fall 2015; an additional 3,383 students were enrolled at the KU Medical Center for an enrollment of 28,091 students across the three campuses
• The university overall employed 2,814 faculty members in fall 2015