Missouri University of Science and Technology (commonly Missouri S&T; and formerly known as the University of Missouri–Rolla and originally Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy), is an institution of higher learning located in Rolla, Missouri, and part of the University of Missouri System. Its 6,815 students (fall 2009 enrollment) primarily study engineering, computing, mathematics, and the sciences.
Missouri S&T; was originally a University o...
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Missouri University of Science and Technology (commonly Missouri S&T; and formerly known as the University of Missouri–Rolla and originally Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy), is an institution of higher learning located in Rolla, Missouri, and part of the University of Missouri System. Its 6,815 students (fall 2009 enrollment) primarily study engineering, computing, mathematics, and the sciences.
Missouri S&T; was originally a University of Missouri offspring called the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy (MSM), founded in 1870 as the first technological learning institution west of the Mississippi River. Early in its beginnings, the School of Mines was focused primarily on mining and metallurgy, but by the 1920s, had expanded into civil, electrical, mechanical, and chemical engineering as well as chemistry, physics, mathematics and geology.
A greater emphasis was placed on research and graduate education during the 1950s. In 1964, the School of Mines, although always a...
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