KU Medical Center Fast Facts

The University of Kansas Medical Center serves Kansas through excellence in education, research, patient care and community engagement.

Its main campus at the corner of 39th Street and Rainbow Avenue in Kansas City, Kan., consists of the University of Kansas School of Medicine, School of Nursing and School of Health Professions, as well as The University of Kansas Hospital, which is a separate entity. The School of Medicine — the only medical school in Kansas — also has campuses in Wichita and Salina.

KU Medical Center is home to The University of Kansas Cancer Center, a National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center (one of only 67 NCI-designated centers in the country), as well as a National Institutes of Health-designated Alzhiemer's Disease Center (one of only 29 such centers in the country).

It is also one of 60 institutions in the national Clinical and Translational Science Award consortium, where researchers are working to speed up basic-science discoveries into cures and treatments.

Student Enrollment

School of Medicine: 2,016
M.D. program: 749
M.D.-Ph.D. program: 34
Residents: 802
Graduate programs: 310
Other programs: 121

School of Nursing: 728
Undergraduate programs: 262
Graduate programs: 441
Other programs: 25

School of Health Professions: 575
Undergraduate programs: 151
Graduate programs: 409
Other programs: 15

Interdisciplinary and other programs: 43
More detailed student enrollment reports are here.

Federal funding for research

National Institutes of Health funding for research at KU Medical Center:

Fiscal year 2011: $67,595,756

Fiscal year 2010: $66,874,079

Fiscal year 2009: $56,428,772

 Fiscal year 2008: $55,583,303

Fiscal year 2007: $59,031,598

 

For NIH funding broken out by totals and departments, as well as NIH rankings, click here.

For more detailed reports, click here.

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Workforce

Total employees: 3,344

Kansas City metropolitan area: 2,972
Wichita metropolitan area: 317
Salina metropolitan area: 19
Other Kansas cities: 14
Outside Kansas: 22

Total number of faculty: 3,275
Full-time: 967
School of Medicine: 846 (151 Basic Science, 695 Clinical)
School of Nursing: 54
School of Health Professions: 67

Part-time: 167
School of Medicine: 143 (17 Basic Science, 126 Clinical)
School of Nursing: 16
School of Health Professions: 8

Volunteer: 2,141
School of Medicine: 1,870 (113 Basic Science, 1,757 Clinical)
School of Nursing: 100
School of Health Professions: 171

Includes Kansas City, Wichita and Salina campuses.
Administrative faculty are excluded from the totals.

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KU Medical Center activities throughout Kansas

The University of Kansas Medical Center works with communities in every county in Kansas.

For a detailing the medical center's work in every county, click here.

To see how KU Medical Center benefits the entire state of Kansas, click here.

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Kansas City campus facts

• 41 acres
• 40 buildings
• 2.4 million square feet
• Oldest building: Murphy Hall, 1924
• Newest building: Hemenway Life Sciences Innovation Center, 2006

 

 

More detailed information is available from the KU Medical Center Office of Enterprise Analytics.

Updated July 2012