With an 12,000 press run each weekday morning of fall and spring semesters, the paper is one of the state's largest morning dailies. The Collegian plans to go four color in August 1999, when page files will be shipped to the Salina Journal, which won the bid for Collegian printing. Papers will be shipped from Salina to the Manhattan campus early each weekday morning.
Collegian readership exceeds that of commercial newspapers.
More than 85 percent of K-State students, faculty and staff members read the paper two or three times per week, according to a 1998 survey of 357 respondents. Up to 4,000 readers per day take advantage of the Electronic Collegian, collegian.ksu.edu. Launched in June 1994, the eCollegian was the third college newspaper in the country to go online. The summer Collegian is published Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays in June and July. Its press run is 4,500.