Public university in Columbia, Missouri, US
University of Missouri Latin : Universitas Missouriensis Former names
Missouri State University[1] Motto Salus populi suprema lex esto (Latin )Motto in English
"Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law"[2] [3] [4] Type Public land-grant research university Established February 11, 1839; 185 years ago (1839-02-11 ) [5] Parent institution
University of Missouri System Accreditation HLC Academic affiliations
Endowment $1.42 billion (2023)[6] Budget $1.76 billion (FY 2024)[7] Chancellor Mun Choi [8] Provost Latha Ramchand[9] Academic staff
4,215 (Fall 2023)[10] Administrative staff
6,965 (Fall 2023)[10] Students 31,041 (Fall 2023)[11] Undergraduates 23,629 (Fall 2023)[11] Postgraduates 7,412 (Fall 2023)[11] Location , , United States
38°56′43″N 92°19′44″W / 38.9453°N 92.3288°W / 38.9453; -92.3288 Campus Midsize city[12] , 1,262 acres (511 ha)[5] Total, 19,261 acres (7,795 ha) Newspaper Colors Old gold and black[14] Nickname Tigers Sporting affiliations
Mascot Truman the Tiger Website missouri .edu
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 .[15] It has been a member of the Association of American Universities since 1908 and is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".[16]
Enrolling 31,041 students in 2023, it offers more than 300 degree programs in thirteen major academic divisions.[11] [17] 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 .[18] [19] [20] The University of Missouri Research Reactor Center is the sole source of isotopes in nuclear medicine in the United States.[21] 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.[22] Its alumni, faculty, and staff include 18 Rhodes Scholars ,[23] 19 Truman Scholars ,[24] 150 Fulbright Scholars ,[25] 7 Governors of Missouri,[26] and 6 members of the U.S. Congress .[27] Two alumni and faculty have been awarded the Nobel Prize: alumnus Frederick Chapman Robbins won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954[28] and George Smith was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2018 while affiliated with the university.[29]
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^ a b "MU Endowment Pool Profile" . University of Missouri. Retrieved October 3, 2017 .
^ "Endowment Pool" (PDF) . University of Missouri System. Retrieved May 5, 2024 .
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^ Williams, Mara Jose (July 28, 2020). "President of 4 universities now also head of Mizzou. Faculty at other schools worry" . Kansas City Star . Kansas City, Missouri . Retrieved July 28, 2020 .
^ "Latha Ramchand, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs" . Curators of the University of Missouri. 2019. Archived from the original on July 13, 2019. Retrieved July 13, 2019 .
^ a b "Student Enrollment (Employee Headcount tab)" . University of Missouri. 2023. Retrieved January 31, 2024 .
^ a b c d "Student Enrollment // MU Analytics" . muanalytics.missouri.edu . 2014–2023. Retrieved January 31, 2024 .
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^ "Carnegie R1 and R2 Research Classifications Doctoral Universities (updated 2018)" (PDF) . Archived from the original (PDF) on June 10, 2020.
^ "Colleges & Schools | University of Missouri" . missouri.edu . 2024. Retrieved January 20, 2024 .
^ "World's First J-School Celebrates 100 Years" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved November 19, 2009 .
^ "Colleges and Schools" . University of Missouri. Archived from the original on August 14, 2017. Retrieved August 14, 2017 .
^ "KOMU Celebrates 50 Years of News Coverage and Community Service" . Missouri School of Journalism . February 9, 2004. Archived from the original on September 5, 2018. Retrieved September 4, 2018 .
^ Williams, J. E. (June 1998). "MURR- The World's Most Powerful University Research Reactor". Journal of Nuclear Medicine . 39 (6): 13N–26N. ISSN 0161-5505 . PMID 9627317 .
^ Brooke, Eliza (August 31, 2015). "The History of Homecoming" . Vice: Broadly . Vice Magazine. Archived from the original on January 10, 2018. Retrieved January 9, 2018 .
^ "U.S. Rhodes Scholarships Number of Winners by Institution U.S. Rhodes Scholars 1904 – 2020" (PDF) .
^ "Scholar Listing" . The Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation . Retrieved April 27, 2023 .
^ "Grantee Directory" . us.fulbrightonline.org . Retrieved April 27, 2023 .
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^ "Mizzou" . Mizzou . Retrieved December 30, 2023 .
^ "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1954" . NobelPrize.org . Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute . Retrieved December 28, 2022 .
^ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2018" . NobelPrize.org . Retrieved April 27, 2023 .