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University of Missouri

The University of Missouri (Mizzou or MU) is a public land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus University of Missouri System. MU was founded in 1839 as the first public university west of the Mississippi River.[14] It has been a member of the Association of American Universities since 1908 and is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".[15]

Not to be confused with Missouri State University.

Former names

Missouri State University[1]

"Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law"[2][3][4]

February 11, 1839 (1839-02-11)[5]

$1.75 billion (2019)[6]

$2.2 billion (FY 2016)[5]

Latha Ramchand[8]

4,215 (Fall 2023)[9]

6,965 (Fall 2023)[9]

31,041 (Fall 2023)[10]

23,629 (Fall 2023)[10]

7,412 (Fall 2023)[10]

Midsize city[11], 1,262 acres (511 ha)[5]
Total, 19,261 acres (7,795 ha)

Old gold and black[13]
   

Enrolling 31,041 students in 2023, it offers more than 300 degree programs in thirteen major academic divisions.[10][16] Its Missouri School of Journalism, founded by Walter Williams in 1908, was established as the world's first journalism school; it publishes a daily newspaper, the Columbia Missourian, and operates NBC affiliate KOMU.[17][18][19] The University of Missouri Research Reactor Center is the sole source of isotopes in nuclear medicine in the United States.[20] The university operates University of Missouri Health Care, running several hospitals and clinics in Mid-Missouri.


Its NCAA Division I athletic teams are the Missouri Tigers and compete in the Southeastern Conference. The American tradition of homecoming is claimed to have originated at MU.[21] Its alumni, faculty, and staff include 18 Rhodes Scholars,[22] 19 Truman Scholars,[23] 150 Fulbright Scholars,[24] 7 Governors of Missouri,[25] and 6 members of the U.S. Congress.[26] Two alumni and faculty have been awarded the Nobel Prize: alumnus Frederick Chapman Robbins won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954[27] and George Smith was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2018 while affiliated with the university.[28]

In media[edit]

The campus is the major setting for the 1965 novel Stoner by John Edward Williams. Protagonist William Stoner is an English professor who was raised on a farm in nearby Booneville.[105]

engineer of Burj Khalifa

William F. Baker

Emmy Award-winning actor

Tom Berenger

writer, suffragist, and founder of League of Women Voters

Emily Newell Blair

writer and TV producer

Linda Bloodworth-Thomason

chairman of Intel Corporation

Andy Bryant

three-time Bellator Lightweight Champion and UFC fighter

Michael Chandler

2021 Pulitzer Prize for History winner

Marcia Chatelain

co-founder of Panda Express

Peggy Cherng

Academy Award-winning actor

Chris Cooper

musician

Sheryl Crow

Nobel laureate, presidential adviser, and scientist

Robert K. Dixon

NASA astronaut

Linda M. Godwin

Chairman and CEO, Dow

Jim Fitterling

actor, Don Draper of Mad Men

Jon Hamm

author, Blue Highways

William Least Heat-Moon

United States Senator for New Mexico

Martin Heinrich

managing partner of Edward Jones Investments

Edward D. "Ted" Jones

2016 vice-presidential nominee and senator for Virginia

Tim Kaine

four-time MLB All-Star

Ian Kinsler

founder, chairman, and CEO of Enron Corporation and convicted felon for securities fraud

Kenneth Lay

journalist, PBS NewsHour

Jim Lehrer

actor

Robert Loggia

author, I Am Legend, The Shrinking Man

Richard Matheson

U.S. Senator (2007–19); Political Analyst - NBC

Claire McCaskill

journalist, CBS

Russ Mitchell

founder of Mayo Clinic

William W. Mayo

former ambassador to Sudan

Cleo A. Noel Jr.

actor and film producer

Brad Pitt

eight-time MLB All-Star and three-time Cy Young Award winner

Max Scherzer

Academy Award-winning actor, Dr. Strangelove, Patton

George C. Scott

MLB player, St. Louis Cardinals radio broadcaster

Mike Shannon

Indian politician, freedom fighter

Ram Subhag Singh

TV personality, Miss America 1990

Debbye Turner (Bell)

cartoonist (Beetle Bailey, Hi and Lois)

Mort Walker

founder of Walmart

Sam Walton

playwright, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

In 2016, there were 300,315 living alumni worldwide. Of those, 274,447 resided in the United States, 156,585 in Missouri, 61,346 in the St. Louis metropolitan area, 30,018 in the Kansas City metropolitan area, and 2,718 outside the U.S.[106]


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KBIA

KCOU

Missouri Scholars Academy

Dains, Mary K. "University of Missouri Football: The First Decade." Missouri Historical Review 70 (October 1975): 20-54.

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Dearmont, W. S. "The Building of the University of Missouri, an Epoch Making Step." Missouri Historical Review 25 (January 1931): 240-244.

online

(1989). My Road to Emeritus. Columbia, Missouri: State Historical Society of Missouri. ISBN 0962289116.

Ellis, Elmer

Olsen, James and Vera (1988). . Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press. ISBN 9780826206787.

The University of Missouri An Illustrated History

(1924). University of Missouri Songs (1 ed.). Columbia, Missouri: Curators of the University of Missouri. OCLC 19229550.

Quarles, James Thomas

Stephens, Frank Fletcher (1962). . Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press. ISBN 9781258386566.

A History of the University of Missouri

Viles, Jonas. The University of Missouri, 1839–1939 ,

E.W. Stephens Publishing Company

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of University of Missouri Athletics

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