University of Missouri–Kansas City

The University of Missouri–Kansas City is a public urban research university in Kansas City, Missouri, and a campus of the University of Missouri System. It opened in 1933 as the private University of Kansas City and entered the state system in 1963. It is a comprehensive city university rather than a land-grant or collegiate campus, with sites on the Volker campus and on Hospital Hill.

Academic units include the College of Arts and Sciences, the Bloch School of Management, the Conservatory, and professional schools of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing, law, and computing and engineering. The School of Medicine has long used a docent, or small-group, teaching model. Clinical training is tied to University Health and other Kansas City hospitals. The Conservatory is a major center for music and dance.

Enrollment is about 15,000 students, with a substantial graduate and professional share and a smaller international intake. Faculty number in the hundreds. Alumni include politician Jason Kander and many physicians, lawyers, and performing artists trained in the city.

Graduate study includes the M.D., D.D.S., Pharm.D., J.D., and research master's and doctoral degrees, combining coursework, clinical rotations, and studio or laboratory supervision. The academic year follows U.S. semesters. Students live in midtown Kansas City, splitting time between the Volker campus and the Hospital Hill health-sciences complex.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, University of Missouri–Kansas City lists 1 doctoral program, in communication, media & journalism.