KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — When it comes to attracting the best business students these days, Ali Mallekzadeh knows what it takes.

“Very astute students walk through the doors of your college with a check list,” said Mallekzadeh, dean of Kansas State University’s College of Business Administration. “They are asking: ‘Do you have an entrepreneurial center, and an international business center, a financial trading center, a place to start a new business? And by the way, do you have an espresso machine?’