Gain the Wichita State home-team advantage
Only Wichita State combines a traditional college atmosphere with the unmatched resources of Kansas’ largest city for an education without limits. Discover how sticking close to home for college can take you further than you’ve ever dreamed.
Lots of friendly faces
Each year more than 300 graduates from USD 259 high schools enter Wichita State as freshmen. So, whether you're an Ace, Buffalo, Griffin, Grizzly, Pioneer, Titan or North High graduate, you're going to see some familiar friendly faces in classes, in our student center and at Shocker games!
Home (not far) away from home
If you're from one of the suburban schools surrounding Wichita, you'll find a lot of new Shockers - in fact about 300 or more new freshmen - who call Andover, Derby, Goddard, Haysville, Maize and Valley Center home.
Private and home school students, too
Each year more than 100 graduates from Bishop Carroll, Kapaun Mt. Carmel, Sunrise Christian, Collegiate, Trinity and The Independent School start their career journeys at Wichita State.
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Home Team Success Stories
Marshall Johnson
Northwest HS, 2015; WSU Grad, 2019
NOW: Senior Acquisitions Analyst, Stoneweg US LLC
Amy Vuong
Southeast HS, 2014; WSU Grad, 2018
NOW: Market Risk Analyst, KochSupply & Trading - United Kingdom
Dane Laughlin
Northeast Magnet, 2014; WSU Grad, 2018
NOW: Operations Transformation Product Leader, Koch Industries (INVISTA)
Alia Michaelis
Andover HS
Andover High School graduate Alia Michaelis is a biochemistry major leveraging the medical community in Wichita as she prepares to apply for medical school after her time at Wichita State.
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Kyle Walter
Home School
Local home school graduate and current Wichita State engineering major Kyle Walter has elevated his professional resume by interning on-campus with Deloitte's Smart Factory. Check it out in our digital Shock Doc series.
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Lisa Teachman
Campus High
Lisa Teachman is the chief meteorologist at local NBC affiliate, KSN. After graduating from Campus High School, she found a path to her career dreams through our Elliott School of Communication.
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Truc Nguyen
Wichita East
Truc Nguyen majored in business and interned with T-Mobile (and even got to meet the company CEO during a trip to their national headquarters in Seattle). Her career is charging ahead as she moves to Ohio to work for Abercrombie & Fitch.
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