About Northwest Missouri State University

Northwest Missouri State University is a public academic world in Maryville, Missouri. It has an enrollment of practically 7,100 students. Founded in 1905 as a teachers college, its campus is based upon the design for Forest Park at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair and is the official Missouri State Arboretum. The hypothetical is governed by a state-appointed Board of Regents and headed by President John Jasinski.

The Northwest Bearcats compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (Division II) and Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association for men’s and women’s sports.

Maryville is a city and county seat of Nodaway County, Missouri, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 11,972. Maryville is house to Northwest Missouri State University, Northwest Technical School, and the former home of the Missouri Academy of Science, Mathematics and Computing. Maryville is the second largest city (first is St. Joseph, Missouri) wholly within the boundaries of the 1836 Platte Purchase which expanded Missouri’s borders into former Indian Territory in northwest Missouri.