Prepare to festoon the party balloons and uncork the champagne bottles. MU will be celebrating its 175th anniversary throughout 2014.
MU was founded in 1839 on a nondescript Columbia field. Today, it’s a $2 billion globally competitive higher education institution on a 1,262-acre botanic garden. In 1908, MU became a member of the Association of American Universities.
The university is known worldwide for its research and quality of its faculty.
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