Kansas has 26 private and 8 public 4-year colleges that enroll 14,731 first-year students yearly. The average tuition of public colleges is $21,351 for in-state students and $31,727 for out-of-state and international students.

Private colleges in Kansas charge around $25,724 per year in tuition regardless of residency.

In the 2021-2022 academic year, Kansas provided $4.7 million in financial aid to 2,548 students who enrolled in 4-year colleges for the first time as undergraduates. In addition, the colleges themselves awarded $112.2 million in grants and scholarships to 11,689 students.

Kansas receives 1% of the total pell grant the federal government allocates. In the 2021-2022 academic year, 4,417 4-year college first-year undergraduates were awarded a total amount of $20.2 million in pell grant ($4,993 per student on average), and 7,574 students received a total amount of $41.6 million in the form of student loans from the federal government ($6,047 per student on average).