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.
Fernand Ouellet Fernand Ouellet, OC, FRSC (born 6 November 1926 in Lac-Bouchette, Quebec), a French-Canadian author and educator, was educated at Université Laval and gained a PhD in 1965.