The University of Kansas (KU) is a public research university with its main campus in Lawrence, Kansas, the state's capital, as well as a number of satellite campuses, research and educational hubs, health care facilities, and instructional programmes spread throughout Kansas. The university's medical school and hospital are located in Kansas City - the Edwards Campus is located in Overland Park; a hospital and research centre are located in Topeka, the state capital; and a hospital and research centre is located in Hays. Additionally, Garden City, Hays, Leavenworth, Parsons, Topeka, a rural agricultural education centre in north Douglas County, and sections of the medical school in Salina and Wichita also have instructional and research facilities.
In the autumn of 2021, there were 23,958 students enrolled at the campuses in Lawrence and Edwards. An additional 3,727 students were enrolled at the KU Medical Center (KUMC), bringing the total number of students enrolled at the three sites to 27,685. In the fall of 2021, the university as a whole (including KUMC) employed 4,776 faculty members, including librarians, administrators, and graduate student workers.
In the Fall Semester of 1965, the KU School of Business introduced interdisciplinary graduate programmes in operations research. Applications in decision science assisting NASA Project Apollo Command Capsule Recovery Operations were made possible by the programme. The early Lynx text-based web browser was created by the academic computing department of KU, which also played a significant role in the development of the Internet. Before Tim Berners-Lee created HTTP and HTML, Lynx offered hypertext browsing and navigation.
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