Pittsburg State University, also called Pitt State or PSU, is a public university with approximately 7,100 students (5,900 undergraduates and 1,200 graduate students) located in Pittsburg, Kansas, United States. A large percentage of the student population consists of residents within the Pittsburg region; the gender proportion is relatively equal. Almost 89% of the students are Americans. Pitt State also has an 18:1 student-to-faculty ratio. It is a member of the Kansas Board of Regents. Currently, it has an endowment of around $40,000,000. The student newspaper of Pittsburg State University is the Collegio. Pittsburg State University was founded in 1903 as the Auxiliary Manual Training Normal School. After ten years, it was renamed Kansas State Teachers College of Pittsburg and became a four-year college. In 1959, its name was changed again to Kansas State College of Pittsburg. It became Pittsburg State University on April 21, 1977. Located in the southeast Kansas, the 223-acre (0.90 km) campus is also the home of the $30 million Kansas Technology Center, a state-of-the-art technology program in the largest academic building in Kansas.