Western Kentucky University is a public university in Bowling Green, Kentucky, United States. It was founded by the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1906, though its roots reach back a quarter-century earlier. In the fall 2016 semester, enrollment was approximately 20,000.

WKU is divided into the following academic colleges:

• The College of Education and Behavioral Sciences
• The Gordon Ford College of Business
• Ogden College of Science And Engineering
• Potter College of Arts and Letters
• The College of Health and Human Services
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An academic range of eighty majors and seventy minors are offered, toward the following degrees:

• Bachelor of Engineering
• Bachelor of Arts
• Bachelor of Fine Arts
• Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies
• Bachelor of Science
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing
• Bachelor of Music
• Bachelor of Social Work