What University was founded first, University of Missouri or Université Laval?
University of Missouri The University of Missouri (also, Mizzou, or MU) is a public land-grant research university located in Columbia, Missouri, U.S. It was founded in 1839 as the first public institution of higher education west of the Mississippi River. As the largest university in the state, it enrolled 32,266 students in 2016, offering over 300 degree programs in 20 academic colleges. It is the flagship campus of the University of Missouri System, which also maintains campuses in Kansas City, Rolla, and St. Louis.
Lincoln University School of Law Lincoln University School of Law was a professional graduate school of Lincoln University (a historically Black university), which operated in St. Louis, Missouri from September 20, 1939, until it closed in 1955. Although Lincoln University’s campus was located in Jefferson City, Missouri, the law school was established in St. Louis because university officials believed that student enrollment would be better in an urban-centered program and that the St. Louis location offered students opportunities to meet with practicing lawyers and that faculty from the two white university law schools in the St. Louis area might be available as part-time lecturers at the new law school.