Kentucky State University (KSU, or even less unremarkably, KYSU, to differentiate from either Kansas State University) is a quaternion-month institution of higher learning, located in Frankfort, Kentucky, the state's capital. Although a school occurs as historically black university, African-American enrollment has since dwindled to lone 35% of listed students. A todays president of the university is Dr. Mary Evans Sias.

History
A school was chartered within 1886 and opened in 1887 as the State Normal School for Colored Persons. Inside 1890, the state of Kentucky gave the school a land grant. Around 1902, the title of the school was changed to the Kentucky Normal & Industrial Institute for Colored Souls, which was changed once more around 1926 to the Kentucky State Industrial College for Colored Persons. Around 1938, a school became called the Kentucky State College for Negroes (a "for Negroes" was dropped inside 1952). the college became a good-fledged university inside 1972. Around 1973, Kentucky State offered its first postgraduate computer program.

An neighboring high was operational from either a late 1890s until the early 1930s.

Notable alumni
Ersa Hines Poston, first black to head a United States Civil Service Commission Moneta Sleet Jr., photographer for Ebony, won a Pulitzer Prize for his picture of Coretta Scott King at the funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr.