Private Colleges and Universities
| School | Location(s) | Control | Type | Enrollment |
Founded |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avila University | Kansas City | Catholic | Baccalaureate College | 1,837 | 1916 |
| Central Methodist University | Fayette | Methodist | Baccalaureate College | 1,000 | 1854 |
| College of the Ozarks | Point Lookout | Presbyterian | Baccalaureate College | 1,600 | 1906 |
| Columbia College | Columbia | Disciples of Christ | Master’s Colleges and Universities | 3,000 | 1851 |
| Culver-Stockton College | Canton | Disciples of Christ | Baccalaureate College | 821 | 1853 |
| Drury University | Springfield | Christian | Master’s colleges and universities | 5,474 | 1873 |
| Evangel University | Springfield | Pentecostal | Baccalaureate College | 1,850 | 1955 |
| Fontbonne University | Clayton | Catholic | Baccalaureate College | 2,950 | 1923 |
| Hannibal-LaGrange University | Hannibal | Christian | Baccalaureate College | 1,150 | 1858 |
| Lindenwood University | St. Charles | Presbyterian | Master’s colleges and universities | 14,500 | 1827 |
| Maryville University | Town and Country | Nonsectarian | Baccalaureate College | 3,600 | 1872 |
| Missouri Baptist University | St. Louis | Evangelical | Baccalaureate College | 4,615 | 1957 |
| Missouri Valley College | Marshall | Presbyterian | Baccalaureate College | 1,789 | 1889 |
| Park University | Parkville | Master’s colleges and universities | 1250 | 1875 | |
| Rockhurst University | Kansas City | Jesuit | Master’s Colleges and Universities | 3,000 | 1910 |
| Saint Louis University | St. Louis | Jesuit | Doctoral/very high activity research university | 12,800 | 1818 |
| Southwest Baptist University | Bolivar | Baptist | Baccalaureate College | 3,000 | 1878 |
| Stephens College | Columbia | private Women's College | Baccalaureate College | 1,000 | 1833 |
| Washington University in St. Louis | St. Louis | Nonsectarian | Doctoral/very high activity research university | 13,507 | 1853 |
| Webster University | Webster Groves | Non-denominational | Master’s colleges and universities | 5,000 | 1915 |
| Westminster College | Fulton | Presbyterian | Baccalaureate College | 1,064 | 1851 |
| William Jewell College | Liberty | Baptist | Baccalaureate College | 1,050 | 1849 |
| William Woods University | Fulton | Disciples of Christ | Baccalaureate College | 3,000 | 1870 |
Read more about this topic: List Of Colleges And Universities In Missouri
Famous quotes containing the words private, colleges and/or universities:
“Always get rid of theory private object in this way: assume that it constantly changes, but that you do not notice the change because your memory constantly deceives you.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)
“But here comes Generosity; giving—not to a decayed artist—but to the arts and sciences themselves.—See,—he builds ... whole schools and colleges for those who come after. Lord! how they will magnify his name!
—One honest tear shed in private over the unfortunate, is worth them all.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the difficulties of living properly in this grotesque contemporary world, they want to forget their own deplorable inefficiency as artists in life.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)