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Kansas State University (sometimes referred to as K-State) is an institution of higher learning located in Manhattan, Kansas. Kansas State University was founded February 16, 1863, as a land-grant institution under the Morrill Act. It was initially located on the grounds of the old Bluemont Central College. The university moved to its present site in 1875.Kansas State has an enrollment of approximately 19,000 undergraduate and 3,000 graduate students. The university has 60 academic departments in nine colleges: Agriculture; Architecture, Planning, and Design; Arts and Sciences; Business Administration; Education; Engineering; Human Ecology; Technology and Aviation; and Veterinary Medicine.
The school's sports teams are called the Wildcats. They participate in the NCAA's Division I-A, and in the Big Twelve Conference.
In 1991, the former Kansas Technical Institute in Salina, Kansas was merged with Kansas State University by an act of the Kansas legislature. The College of Technology and Aviation is now located at the Salina campus.
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