Drury University is a private human sciences school in Springfield, Missouri. The college enlists around 1,600 students, 450 graduate understudies in six expert's projects, and 3,160 understudies in the College of Continuing Professional Studies.
Set up in 1873, Drury is reliably positioned among the best aesthetic sciences colleges in the American Midwest. In 2013, the Drury Panthers Men's Basketball group won the NCAA Division II Championships.
Drury was established as Springfield College in 1873 by
Congregationalist church evangelists in the mold of other
Congregationalist colleges, for example, Dartmouth College and Yale
University. Rev. Nathan Morrison, Samuel Drury, and James and Charles
Harwood gave the school's introductory blessing and association; Samuel
Drury's blessing was the biggest of the gathering and the school was
soon renamed out of appreciation for Drury's as of late expired child.
The early educational program accentuated instructive, religious, and musical qualities. Understudies went to the new school from a wide range, including the Indian Territories of Oklahoma. The primary graduating class incorporated four ladies.
At the point when classes started in 1873, they were held in a solitary expanding on a grounds involving under 1 1⁄2 sections of land (0.61 ha). A quarter century later the 40-section of land (16.2 ha) grounds included Stone Chapel, the President's House and three scholastic structures. Today, the college involves a 115-section of land (46.5 ha) grounds, including the first noteworthy structure
The early educational program accentuated instructive, religious, and musical qualities. Understudies went to the new school from a wide range, including the Indian Territories of Oklahoma. The primary graduating class incorporated four ladies.
At the point when classes started in 1873, they were held in a solitary expanding on a grounds involving under 1 1⁄2 sections of land (0.61 ha). A quarter century later the 40-section of land (16.2 ha) grounds included Stone Chapel, the President's House and three scholastic structures. Today, the college involves a 115-section of land (46.5 ha) grounds, including the first noteworthy structure