As Missouri's only state-supported member of the Association of American Universities, our distinct mission is to offer you all Missourians the benefits of a world-class research college. We are stewards and builders of a priceless state supply, a distinguishing physical infrastructure and scholarly environment where our carefully interlocked assignments of education, research, support and financial development work together on behalf of all taxpayers. Students work side by side with some of the planet's greatest faculty to advance the arts and humanities, the sciences, in addition to the careers.