University of Missouri

The University of Missouri (Mizzou, MU, University of Missouri–Columbia, or just Missouri) is an open exploration college situated in the U.S. condition of Missouri. In 1839, the college was established in Columbia as the first open foundation of advanced education west of the Mississippi River. As the biggest college in Missouri, MU selects 35,441 understudies offering more than 300 degree programs in 19 scholarly universities in the 2014–15 year. The college is the University's lead of Missouri System, which keeps up grounds in Rolla, Kansas City, and St. Louis. 

MU is one of the country's top-level R1 establishments and one of the 34 state funded colleges to be individuals from the Association of American Universities. There are more than 270,000 MU graduated class living worldwide with very nearly one half keeping on dwelling in Missouri. The University of Missouri was positioned #99 in the 2015 U.S. News & World Report among the national colleges. 

The University's grounds of Missouri is 1,262 sections of land (511 ha)just south of Downtown Columbia and is kept up as an organic patio nursery. The recorded grounds is fixated on Francis Quadrangle, an architecturally significant area that is recorded on the National Register of Historic Places, and various structures on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1908, the world's first school of news coverage was established by Walter Williams as the Missouri School of Journalism. 

The University of Missouri Research Reactor Center is the world's most effective college research reactor. It is one of just six state funded colleges in the United States with an institute of prescription, veterinary pharmaceutical, building, agribusiness, and law all on one grounds. The college additionally possesses the University of Missouri Health Care framework, which works four clinics in Mid-Missouri. 

The main athletic system that works a Division I FBS football group in Missouri is known as the Missouri Tigers and contends as an individual from the Southeastern Conference. The school's mascot, Truman the Tiger, is named after Missourian and previous U.S. president Harry S. Truman. As indicated by the NCAA, the American custom of homecoming was set up at the University in 1911; the convention has subsequent to been embraced across the nationwide.