ATSU began with the founding of the Kirksville
College of Osteopathic Medicine (KCOM), located in Kirksville,
Mo., in 1892 by Andrew Taylor Still, M.D., D.O. The University
has a rich history of providing leadership for comprehensive
healthcare education and research and is consistently ranked
in U.S. News and World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools” guide.
In addition to KCOM, ATSU has added four new schools
in the last decade. The Arizona School of Health Sciences,
founded in 1995, was the first school to occupy ATSU’s second
campus in Mesa, Ariz. The School of Health Management, an
exclusively online school, was founded in 1999 on the Kirksville
Campus, and the Arizona School of Dentistry & Oral Health
was added to the Mesa Campus in 2003. In 2006, ATSU founded
the School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona, its second
osteopathic medical college, on the Mesa campus