Notes

These are items that bear looking into more closely.

• There are apparently no tenure stream faculty. This can indicate a risk to academic freedom and thus educational quality, as faculty members may be able to lose their positions because of their speech, publications, or research findings.

Overview of institution

This, and the rest of the page, use info from the most recent year available, generally 2022.

• Institution kind: Special Focus Two-Year: Technical Professions

• Undergrad program: Special Focus: Two-Year Institution

• Graduate program: Not classified (Exclusively Undergraduate)

• Enrollment profile: Exclusively undergraduate two-year (see more details below)

• Average net price for undergrads on financial aid: $17,142 . This is 90% the average cost of Harvard.

• Actual price for your family: Go here to see what your family may be asked to pay. It can be MUCH lower than the average price but also higher for some.

• Size and setting: Two-year, small

• In state percentage: 46% of first year students come from Kansas

• In US percentage: 100% of first year students come from the US

• Student to tenure-stream faculty ratio: Unknown (undergrads to tenure-stream faculty) [Tenure explained]

• Student to faculty ratio: 31.6 (undergrads to all faculty)

• Degrees offered: Certificate of at least 1 year but less than 2 years, Associate’s degree

• Schedule: Continuous

• Institution provides on campus housing: No

• Freshmen required to live on campus: No

• Advanced placement (AP) credits used: Implied no

• Disabilities: 3 percent or less of undergrads are registered as having disabilities.

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Comparisons

The sections below show this institution compared with others. The ones listed are ones it has identified as peers, who consider themselves peers, and/or who the federal government considers peers. If a comparison school has the same value as the focal school, its cell is grayed out. Arrows show where there is a signficant trend over time for a school.

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Diversity

The US Census Bureau has a diversity index that goes from 0 to 1. In their words, “A 0-value indicates that everyone in the population has the same racial and ethnic characteristics. A value close to 1 indicates that everyone in the population has different racial and ethnic characteristics.” This uses their formula, but with the resolution available for the federal IPEDS data (which does not separate for a given demographic group whether members identify as Hispanic or not). This metric is about heterogeneity within the population, not the proportion of the population that comes from historically excluded groups.

Following the practice of the census, the index is multiplied by 100 to give the percentage probability a random pair of individuals will have a different background. Most institutions argue that diversity is a benefit, so by default a higher number is listed as better, but there may be cases where this measure does not reflect the mission of a college (for example, 70% of the students at a tribal college or university may be American Indian: that could be low-scoring by this metric but should not be read as “bad” given the institution’s mission).

These numbers are based on the most recent year available, generally 2022, which predates effects of the US Supreme Court’s striking down of affirmative action. This has often changed, sometimes dramatically, the incoming student demographics at some institutions.