University of Missouri, Kansas City

Location

UMKC is located right in the heart of Kansas City in Missouri. UMKC is a two hour drive from the main UM campus. The local area will give you a near perfect feel of a big city with almost anything and everything available and happening, although not as good as a New York or Chicago. The School of Engineering is in the Volker campus of UMKC and the course is conducted in Flarsheim Hall.
There are parks, museums and plenty of social life in and around UMKC. Columbia is a 2 hour drive from UMKC while you can reach Chicago in less than 8 hours. Overall, the location is pretty good.

Campus

UMKC is just a small city campus where facilities are crammed up. It isn’t as open as a more famous University campus but yes, top facilities are up and running. The campus is always clean and looks good overall. Even the libraries are good (the college isn’t as good for Engineering as it is for its other streams). Overall, the campus infrastructure is good and as long as the college is in the heart of the city, why would students bother!

Residing Options

Both dormitories and apartments in the campus are really liked by students. They are decently large and have all facilities and you have the added advantage of staying close to your school, attend social events in campus. The only problem is that students find on campus housing really expensive.Staying Off campus will surely help you save some bucks on living. A lot of apartments are available both near the campus and a few miles away too which of course, determines how much you will pay for your stay. Some students end up staying at unsafe areas for real cheap, which isn’t as good a deal as it seems.

Faculty

Although the University came into existence in the 1930s, its school of Engineering has been established only recently in 2001. There are very few masters’ programmes in UMKC, just four in number which obviously means that the domain of engineering studies is really small in UMKC. The faculty is fine, a very small lot though. Classes are small and yes, students do get some effective attention during their work.