University of Missouri College Portrait

Students at the University of Missouri benefit from a 167-year commitment to providing the best education from the heart of America. MU offers students more than one hundred degrees. Students can add minors and unique emphasis areas to their major. This great educational opportunity is delivered by MU’s stellar faculty, most of whom have doctorates or the highest degree in their fields. Our faculty conduct discovery research and bring the excitement of these advances into the class as part of learning experience. Many MU students participate as research assistants conducting projects that support the research of their faculty mentors. Students at MU also lead nationally recognized student organizations and events, including the world’s largest blood drive held as part of MU’s Homecoming! At Mizzou, your college experience is a unique, customized education.

MU is committed to student success. We invite you and your family to visit our campus. You will visit with our admissions staff, explore the campus during a student led tour, interact with faculty in the academic areas that you have the most interest and visit our wonderful student focused facilities. Once admitted, students and their families return for Summer Welcome, our new student orientation program. We work with you to develop a personalized academic plan for your first semester. You may join a Freshman Interest Group (FIG), a Learning Community, or consider joining a Greek organization. At the start of the semester, you participate in Fall and Spring Welcome activities to get better connected with the campus and your department. We want you to have a successful start at MU. You have the Learning Center, Academic Advising, Academic Retention Services and other programs available to help you develop learning strategies to enhance your success. Our freshman retention rate indicates our students are well served by these programs. We want to help you define, clarify, and achieve your academic, personal, and professional goals throughout your program of study at MU.