History
The University of Missouri was founded in 1839 in Columbia. It was the first public institution of higher learning west of the Mississippi River. It became a land-grant university after passage of the Morrill Act of 1862. In 1870, the University established the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy in Rolla.
The UM System was created in 1963 when the University of Kansas City, which had been a private institution, was acquired and renamed UM–Kansas City. That same year, a new university named UM–St. Louis was created. In 1964, the School of Mines ‡ was renamed UM–Rolla, and the original university in Columbia was renamed UM–Columbia. Effective January 1, 2008, UM–Rolla became the Missouri University of Science and Technology.
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