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The University of Missouri Columbia is a public land-grant university of the state of Missouri as well as Missouri's largest university and public research institution. It is the flagship campus and headquarters of the University of Missouri System. The University of Missouri is one of only 34 public universities to be an elected member of the prestigious Association of American Universities. The University of Missouri Columbia is most often referred to as "Mizzou", "MU" or simply "The University of Missouri." MU was founded in 1839 as the first public university west of the Mississippi River and as the first state university in the Louisiana Purchase. The world's first school of journalism was founded on the campus by Walter Williams on Sept. 14, 1908.
In 1842 the first courses in civil engineering were taught. The first department of art was taught by the famous Missouri artist George Caleb Bingham. The College of Education was opened in 1867 and admitted the first female students. The entire university was open to female enrollment by 1871.
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