University of Kansas The University of Kansas (KU) is an open examination university and the largest in the U.S. condition of Kansas. KU branch grounds are situated in the towns of Lawrence, Wichita, Overland Park, Salina, and Kansas City, Kansas, with the fundamental grounds situated in Lawrence on Mount Oread, the most noteworthy area in Lawrence. Established March 21, 1865, the college was opened in 1866, under a sanction allowed by the Kansas State Legislature in 1864 after empowering enactment went in 1863 under the Kansas State Constitution, received two years after the 1861 confirmation of the previous Kansas Territory as the 34th state into the Union after an exceptionally renowned ridiculous interior common war known as "Draining Kansas" amid the 1850s. The college's Medical Center and University Hospital are situated in Kansas City, Kansas. The Edwards Campus is in Overland Park, Kansas, in the Kansas City metropolitan region. There are