Founded: 1906
Location: Bowling Green, Ky.
Enrollment: 19,761
Female: 59.6%
Male: 40.4%
States Represented: 46
Countries Represented: 56
Highest Degree Offered : Doctoral
Athletic Conference: Sun Belt
Board of Regents: Lois Gray, Chair; Jim Meyer, Vice-Chair; Yevette Haskins; Judi Hughes; Jim Johnson; Forrest Roberts; J. David Porter, Larry Zielke; Patricia Minter, Faculty Regent; Tamela Smith, Staff Regent; Jeanne Johnson, Student Regent;
National Rankings
- WKU is a first tier university in the US News and World Report America’s Best Colleges 2008 Edition among Universities Masters—South.
- WKU was included in the Top 25 Public Universities-Master's (South), ranking 12th in the US News and World Report.
WKU Faculty Accolades
- Since 2000, seven WKU faculty have had the distinction of winning Fulbright Awards.
- In 2004, WKU faculty members were elected/appointed to 11 national and international positions. Of those, four were elected president of their respective association.
- WKU has a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist on its faculty.
- The WKU Music Department staffs a member of the American Bandmasters Association, one of only two in Kentucky.
- WKU is the home of the Kentucky Poet Laureate and the Kentucky Forensics Coach of the Year.
DID YOU KNOW?
- WKU is the fastest growing Kentucky Public University. WKU's total headcount has grown 4,383 students since 1998.
- Enrollment growth at WKU made up 1/3 of the state's enrollment increase since 1998.
- Approximately one in six students who attend a Kentucky public university choose WKU.
- 46 of the 50 states and the District of Columbia are represented at WKU.
- Students traveled from every populated continent to attend WKU. In all, 56 countries are represented.
- About 2 of 5 first-year students graduated in the top quarter of their high school class.
- Three of five incoming WKU Students said that the attractive campus was a determining factor in deciding to attend.
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