University of Missouri--St. Louis
Work 1 University Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63121-4400
Work(314) 516-5451
Admissions E-mail: admissions@umsl.edu
Web site: http://www.umsl.edu
Tier 4
College Category:
National Universities
National Universities
Overview : University of Missouri--St. Louis
| General Information | |
|---|---|
| Institutional Control: | Public |
| Year founded: | 1963 |
| Religious affiliation: | N/A |
| Academic calendar: | semester |
| Total number of undergraduates: | 12,367 |
| Setting: | urban |
| Endowment: | $47,602,280 |
| Fall Admissions | |
| Application deadline: | 8/24 |
| Application fee: | $35 |
| Fall 2008 Acceptance rate: | 57.8% |
| Selectivity: | more selective |
| Expenses | |
| Costs: | 2009-2010 In-state: $8,595; Out-of-state: $19,686 |
| Mission | |
| School mission: | The University of Missouri-St. Louis provides excellent learning experiences and leadership opportunities for a diverse student body through its outstanding faculty, ranked programs, innovative research and regional, national and international partnerships. Founded in 1963 on the grounds of a former country club, UMSL today is spread across 350 acres of rolling hills in suburban St. Louis County adjacent to two Interstate highways and five minutes from Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. The campus has 70 academic and general-purpose buildings as well as a variety of student residence halls, condominiums and apartments. UMSL has developed a business park that houses the world headquarters of Express Scripts Inc., and operates two business incubators concentrating on life sciences and information technology. UMSL employs more than 1,400 full-time and part-time teaching and research faculty members. More than 96 percent of tenure and tenure-track faculty hold doctoral or terminal degrees in their respective fields and edit or have articles routinely published in a variety of nationally renowned academic journals. Several of the university's 131 degree and certificate programs have attained national recognition for quality, including biology, criminology, education, information systems, international business, nursing, optometry, psychology, public policy and tropical ecology. The UMSL faculty as a whole was ranked 5th nationally among universities with fewer than 15 doctoral programs in the Academic Analytic's Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index - immediately behind Boston College and Georgetown University. The largest university in the region, UMSL enrolls more than 15,500 students from 46 states and 77 countries, with 40,000 additional students in non-credit continuing education programs. Despite its international flavor, the UMSL student body comes primarily from, and reflects the diversity of, the region. More than 1,200 students live on campus and 175 students participate in one of 11 NCAA Division II sports programs. While UMSL graduates have taken leadership roles nationally and internationally, their influence remains centered in the St. Louis region. More than 70 percent of UMSL's 74,500 graduates still live and work in the region - supporting the unofficial campus tagline "We Educate St. Louis". |
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