University of Missouri Kansas City

The University of Missouri–Kansas City (often referred to as UMKC) is a public university located in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. It is a branch of the University of Missouri System. Its main campus is in Kansas City’s Rockhill neighborhood east of the Country Club Plaza. The university’s enrollment is around 15,000, and is expected to increase by 20% in 2011.

The school has its roots in the Lincoln and Lee University movement first put forth by the Methodist Church and its Bishop Ernest Lynn Waldorf in the 1920s. The proposed university (which was to honor Abraham Lincoln  and Robert E. Lee) was to be built on the Missouri-Kansas border at 75th and State Line Road, where the Battle of Westport (the largest battle west of the Mississippi River  during the American Civil War) took place. The centerpiece of the school was to be a National Memorial marking the tomb of an unknown Union soldier and unknown Confederate soldier. Proponents of the school said it would be a location “where North met South and East met West.” The Methodist interest reflected the church’s important role in the development of the Kansas City area through the Shawnee Methodist Mission which was the second capital of Kansas.

The university was built on a 40-acre (160,000 m2) plot, southeast of the Nelson mansion. William Volker had purchased and donated this land for the University of Kansas City. The original Volker purchase did not include the Dickey mansion itself. Dickey died unexpectedly in 1931 and Volker acquired it to be the first building.

Courses Offered
Undergraduate Programs

• BS
• BA
• BLA
• BBA
• BFA
• BSDH

Graduate Programs

• Masters Programs
• Doctoral Programs

Colleges & Schools

• College of Arts and Sciences
• School of Education
• School of Nursing
• Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration
• School of Medicine
• School of Law
• School of Computing and Engineering
• School of Biological Sciences
• Conservatory of Music and Dance
• School of Dentistry
• School of Graduate Studies
• School of Pharmacy

Contact Details
University of Missouri Kansas City
Kansas City, MO 64110
(816) 235-1000
Official Website: http://www.umkc.edu/