KU Medical Center Fast Facts

The KU Medical Center 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 run by The University of Kansas Health System.

The School of Medicine — the only medical school in Kansas — also has campuses in Wichita and Salina. The KU School of Nursing has campuses in Kansas City and Salina.

KU Medical Center is home to The University of Kansas Cancer Center, a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center, as well as a National Institutes of Health-designated Alzheimer's Disease Research Center.

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

Total number of students, fall 2022: 3,766

School of Medicine: 2,333
M.D. program: 829
M.D.-Ph.D. program: 34
Residents: 915
Graduate programs: 376
Other programs: 179

School of Nursing: 631
Undergraduate programs: 393
Graduate programs: 238

School of Health Professions: 771
Undergraduate programs: 112
Graduate programs: 639
Other programs: 20

Interdisciplinary and other programs: 22

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Federal funding for research

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

Fiscal year 2021:
$71,611,090

Fiscal year 2020: $77,014,486

Fiscal year 2019: $71,074,759

Fiscal year 2017: $52,782,659

Fiscal year 2016: $49,801,526