University of Kentucky
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The University of Kentucky is a public land-grant research university in Lexington, Kentucky. Founded in 1865 by John Bryan Bowman as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky, the university is one of the state's two land-grant universities. It is the institution with the highest enrollment in the state, with 32,710 students in the fall of 2022.
The early campus: Barker Hall in the center, the Main Building to the right, and a lake in the foreground where the Student Center was later built.
Patterson Hall, shortly after its 1904 opening
Miller Hall
The engineering plaza.
Kentucky State University
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Kentucky State University is a public historically black land-grant university in Frankfort, Kentucky. Founded in 1886 as the State Normal School for Colored Persons, and becoming a land-grant college in 1890, KSU is the second-oldest state-supported institution of higher learning in Kentucky. In fall 2019, total undergraduate enrollment was 2,029 with a total graduate enrollment of 142.
Campus in 1898
Main entrance in 2020