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June 16, 2025 |  By: Gavin McGough

Northwest Missouri State is closing its KC campus location

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Northwest Missouri State is transitioning its facilities in the Kansas City area and closing its campus location there.
Since 2016, the university has occupied a floor of the Northland Innovation Campus. A brand new building at the time, the University helped fund and design the project. Associate Provost for Operations Tyler Tapps says the plan was to serve professionals in the city pursue seek higher degrees. 

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Tyler Tapps says, "The intial idea was to offer courses specifically in the graduate area but as we transitioned and as Covid happened, our largest enrollments for the graduate area is online for the University." 

The classroom spaces began to see less use. The priorities at the location shifted to recruiting high schoolers in the metro area to take college levels classes from Northwest, something called dual credit. Staff also began offering certificate programs, and sponsoring professional development conferences to serve a demand for continuing education. Tapps says that work will continue.

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Tapps says, "Those three priorities still exist in Kansas City, we still have a footprint. Even though we have vacated the space, we are in the middle of a contract agreement for leasing new space. All of the employees are still retained and will be working out of that new facility." 

The new space will be smaller to fit the university's evolving priorities in the metro, resulting in some cost-savings. The furniture from the Northland Campus will be moved to Maryville, and furnish the Martindale building when renovations are complete.
Tapps noted Kansas City remains the closest major population base, and recruiting students from the area to attend Northwest is essential to growing enrollment in Maryville.