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Kansas State University graduated the largest-ever number of engineering students in the state during 2020. | Download this photo.
MANHATTAN While 2020 will be remembered on many fronts, largely related to a global pandemic, the Carl R. Ice College of Engineering at Kansas State University has marked the year in celebratory mode by recording its largest-ever number of graduates and the most of any engineering school in the state.
In awarding a total of 782 bachelor s degrees from spring, summer and fall 2020 graduation classes, the college exceeded its previous record-setting years of 2017 with 630 graduates, 2018 with 684 and 2019 with 719.
When looking for an impetus or reason behind this surge in numbers, a good place to start is the college s response to and benefit from the University Engineering Initiative Act, or UEIA, enacted by the Kansas Legislature in 2011 to increase the number of engineering graduates from the state s three engineerin