University of Missouri

The University of Missouri was founded in 1839 in Columbia, Missouri as the first public university west of the Mississippi River a the first state university in Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchse territory. Today MU is a $2.1 billion enterprise and an important investment for the state and nation. MU provides all the benefits of two universities in one: It's a major land-grant institution with a statewide mission of service to citizens and Missouri's largest public research university. Considered one of the nation's top-tier institutions, Mizzou is the flagship campus of the four-campus University of Missouri System It is one of only 34 public universities, and the only public institution in Missouri, to be selected for membership in the Association of American Universities.