Each year, colleges and universities in system update their Systemwide General Education Master Course lists (MCLs). Archived versions of prior years' MCLs are available below.
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Building a Future is helping Kansas families by focusing on three key areas.
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Affordability |
Access |
Success |
The Kansas Board of Regents is implementing a number of promising practices to advance these strategic objectives.
Key Initiatives
- Advocate for increased need-based student financial aid
- Limit tuition and fee increases
- Require student success playbooks with recommendations including:
- Centralized professional advising
- Targeted student financial aid
- Improved interventions for at-risk students based on enhanced data collections
- Better technology supports
- Adopt systemwide general education core
- Increase systemwide transfer
- Implemented systemwide transfer associate degrees in a number of key areas including education, healthcare, computer science, business and social work
- Continued work on systemwide transfer courses to open the door for more opportunities in fields such as engineering
Results
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Increased Affordability |
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State funded student financial aid nearly quadrupled |
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Tuition and fee increases are less than half of CPI growth over the last five years | |
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Student loan debt of graduates who are Pell recipients has decreased 16 percent |
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Enhanced Access |
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The system is providing college courses to 15.5 percent more high school students than five years ago |
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The number of Pell-eligible students in the system grew 4.9 percent last year |
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Improved Student |
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On-time graduation rates have increased 10.2 percentage points at state universities during the last five years |
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Retention rates have increased 3.1 percentage points |
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Starting wages for graduates from Kansas colleges and universities are up 22 percent since 2020 |
Building a Future is helping Kansas businesses by focusing on two key areas.
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Talent Pipeline |
Innovation |
The Kansas Board of Regents is implementing a number of promising practices to advance these strategic objectives.
Key Initiatives
- Systemwide transfer programs in areas of high need
- Academic portfolio and program review
- Approved programs granting resident tuition to students from select areas to recruit more talent to Kansas
- Advocacy for research
- Enhanced partnership with Commerce
Results
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Growing Talent Pipeline |
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The percentage of graduates staying in Kansas after graduation has grown for three consecutive years |
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Increased Research |
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Total research funding has grown by 53 percent |
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Industry-sponsored research has grown 162 percent |
Building a Future is advancing prosperity in Kansas by engaging the unique capabilities of the state's public higher education system to grow the economy and benefit Kansans and our communities.
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Intentional Economic Development |
Community Benefits |
The Kansas Board of Regents is implementing a number of promising practices to advance these strategic objectives.
Key Initiatives
- State university prosperity plans to facilitate intentional economic development
- Support for human health
- World class treatment and research for Kansans at the KUMC Cancer Center
- Facilities renewal initiative
- Blueprint for Literacy
Results
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Intentional Economic Development |
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Kansas universities are implementing plans to leverage their strengths for economic development |
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Kansas colleges and universities have partnered with other agencies and organizations on large economic development projects | |
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Community Benefits |
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Kanas universities are partnering on initiatives to improve health outcomes across the state |
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Blueprint for Literacy will help 90 percent of Kansas students read at or above grade level by 2033 |
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Facilities Initiative |
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Anticipated $1.1 billion investment to renew state university facilities over a 10 year period |
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Strategic demolition of obsolete buildings has reduced campus footprint by 626,000 square feet |
