WSU Tech Competitors

With more than 44,000 students enrolled in credit and continuing education courses each year, Johnson County Community College is the largest undergraduate institution in Kansas. Known nationally for academic excellence, JCCC offers a comprehensive range of transfer and career-focused programs designed to help students achieve their educational and professional goals. From foundational coursework that transfers to four-year institutions to more than 50 career and certificate programs aligned with high-demand industries, JCCC prepares students for success in the classroom, the workforce, and beyond. Explore more about JCCC and its impact on students, employers, and the Kansas City region!

Fort Hays State University is a thriving liberal and applied arts, a state-assisted institution in western Kansas with an enrollment of approximately 14,210 students. It has four colleges — Arts and Sciences, Education and Technology, Business and Entrepreneurship, and Health and Life Sciences — and a Graduate School. It also has a Virtual College that delivers courses electronically throughout Kansas and beyond. FHSU offers bachelor's and master's degrees in many fields and provides a wide variety of cultural and intellectual resources, not only for its faculty, staff, and students but for the western Kansas region and beyond. Fort Hays State occupies the southwest corner of Hays, Kan., a city of about 20,000 people located halfway between Kansas City and Denver on Interstate 70. The city and its people make their livings from across a wide spectrum of industries-agriculture, education, light manufacturing, medical care, oil, retail, and technology. The university is fully accredited by several national agencies. We invite that type of inspection to prove that we are providing our students with the kind of education that we promise them. FHSU is one of six state-assisted institutions of higher education and is governed by a Board of Regents appointed by the governor of the state of Kansas.

Located on a 160-acre campus in the center of Topeka, the capital of Kansas, Washburn University offers more than 200 programs leading to certification, associate, bachelor, master's and juris doctor degrees through the College of Arts and Sciences and the schools of Applied Studies, Business, Law and Nursing. Washburn's broadly-based liberal arts and professional education programs are enhanced by the tradition of an interactive relationship between campus and community. Since 1941, Washburn University has been continuously accredited or approved by the Higher Learning Commission: A Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, 30 North LaSalle Street, Suite 2400, Chicago, IL 60602-2504.