DRURY UNIVERSITY

In the fall of 1995, Drury University opened the Rolla campus with 12 classes and approximately 400 credit hours. Within four years, the campus had grown to over 50 classes per semester and approximately 2500 credit hours per semester. Due to space restrictions, the campus relocated in the fall of 1999 to its current location. A variety of general education, major requirement, and elective courses are offered each semester.

Drury University offers bright, achieving students a commitment to personalized education and diversity With more than 50 majors and academic programs and a beautifully scenic 80 acre campus in Springfield, Missouri, Drury offers a innovative, intense yet very personal approach to learning Drury University is a private liberal arts college in Springfield, Missouri. The university enrolls about 1, 550 undergraduates, over 2, 000 adult part-time undergraduates and around 400 graduate students in six master's programs. In total, its enrollment numbers at about 3, 550 students.

Founded in 1873, the Drury University Springfield campus is a blend of historic and contemporary buildings. All courses for undergraduate and graduate programs are offered at the Springfield campus. Drury was founded as Springfield College in 1873 by Congregationalist church missionaries in the mold of other Congregationalist universities such as Dartmouth College and Yale University. Rev. Nathan Morrison, Samuel Drury, and James and Charles Harwood provided the school's initial endowment and organization; Samuel Drury's gift was the largest of the group and the school was soon renamed in honor of Drury's recently deceased son. The early curriculum emphasized educational, religious and musical strengths. Students came to the new college from a wide area, including the Indian Territories of Oklahoma. The first graduating class included four women. When classes began in 1873, they were held in a single building on a campus occupying less than 1½ acres. Twenty-five years later the 40-acre (160, 000 m2) campus included Stone Chapel, the President's House and three academic buildings. Today, the university occupies a 115-acre (0.47 km2) campus, including the original historic buildings. Drury is an independent university, church-related, grounded in the liberal arts tradition, and committed to personalized education in a community of scholars who value the arts of teaching and learning.