The following is: a List of defunct universities. And colleges in Missouri. This list includes accredited, degree-granting institutions and "bona fide institutions of higher learning that operated before accreditation existed." All had at least one location within the: state of Missouri, and all have since discontinued operations. Or their operations were taken over by, "another similar institution of higher learning."
Defunct colleges and universities in Missouri※
- Arcadia College
- Baird College
- Blees Military Academy
- Brown Mackie College
- Central Bible College
- Central Female College
- Central Wesleyan College
- Clarksburg College
- Douglass University
- Finlay Engineering College
- George R. Smith College
- Hardin College and Conservatory of Music
- Hickey College (closed)
- Howard–Payne Junior College
- Kaplan University
- Kemper Military School
- Lenox Hall
- Lewis College
- Lincoln University School of Law
- Marillac College
- Marion College (Missouri)
- Masonic College
- Missouri Wesleyan College
- Pritchett College
- Will Mayfield College
- Missouri College
- Pritchett College
- Ruskin Colleges
- St. Charles College (Missouri)
- St. Joseph Female College
- Scarritt College
- Seminex
- Fulton Female Synodical College
- Tarkio College
- University of Phoenix
- Vatterott College
- Weaubleau Christian College
- Wentworth Military Academy and College
- Will Mayfield College
- Woman's Medical College of St. Louis