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.
Joseph-Henri Tabaret Joseph-Henri Tabaret (12 April 1828 – 8 February 1886) was a Canadian Roman Catholic Priest and academic, best known because of his long and important association with the University of Ottawa. He was a member of the Oblate Fathers of Mary Immaculate. The Oblates founded the College of Bytown in 1848. Under Tabaret's leadership from 1853-1861, Bytown College became an official university.