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As Missouri's major land-grant and public research university, Mizzou's impact on the state is immeasurable. We educate future leaders in nearly every discipline, conduct research that improves our health and quality of life, and partner with Missourians to put that knowledge to work every day.
Mizzou Measures Up
MU is a destination university for top Missouri scholars and an increasing number of out-of-state students. Since fall 2002, Hispanic enrollment has grown 127 percent and African-American by 69 percent. Mizzou has welcomed 61 percent more low-income students during the past 10 years. (accessibility)
The quality of entering Mizzou freshmen continues to rise. The 2011 class boasts an average ACT score of 25.7, compared with the national average of 21.1 and state average of 21.6. (retention/degree completion)
MU retains 85 percent of its students for their sophomore year, higher than the national average of 78 percent and state average of 75.3 percent for four-year public institutions. (degree completion)
MU’s graduation rates far exceed national and state averages for four-year public institutions. The six-year rate for Mizzou is 68.9 percent compared to state (54.7 percent) and national (53.6 percent) rates, and it has increased substantially since 1997 when the rate was 57.7 percent. (degree attainment)
MU students have high pass rates on licensing exams. Recently, 97.4 percent of law students passed the bar exam on the first try while 99 percent of teacher education students, 92 percent of nursing students and 100 percent of health professions students passed their national licensure and certification tests. (quality of learning)
Mizzou graduates an average 7,100 students annually, educating 25 percent of all undergraduates who attend Missouri’s public universities. An estimated 2,600 of degrees and certificates are in math, engineering, information technology, health and other science fields. (educating work force)
Since 1839 MU has been the state’s partner in serving the best interests of citizens. During fiscal years 2009-11, MU Extension’s Business Development Program alone generated $2.4 billion in economic impact for the Missouri economy, helping clients increase sales by $885 million, gain $978 million in government contracts and create 27,153 jobs. (meeting state needs)
MU Health Care, the clinical side of the university’s Health System, serves patients from all 114 Missouri counties, several states and foreign countries. Patient care is led by MU faculty physicians trained in more than 100 distinct clinical subspecialties. (meeting state needs)
MU’s nationally prominent scholars and scientists bring discoveries into the classroom, publish more than 1,500 books and scholarly articles each year, and attract multi-million-dollar research grants. Research expenditures from federal sources during FY 2011 topped $116 million. (advancing research frontiers)
Since fiscal year 2008, MU has filed 278 U.S. patents and signed 204 options and licenses for new technologies developed at the university. This represents a six-fold increase in deals to commercialize faculty innovations compared to fiscal year 2004-07. (economic development)
Increases in MU’s tuition to compensate for diminishing state support have been conservative. Mizzou’s tuition is below the averages in the Southeastern Conference, Big 12, Big Ten, AAU publics and many private high schools. (affordability)
MU is doing more with less state funding. Since 2001, enrollment has grown 42 percent to 33,805 students while state appropriations have decreased by 14.1 percent. Missouri is 44th out of 50 states in per capita support of public higher education. (financial responsibility)
Mizzou’s licensing income from the commercialization of new technologies has reached more than $33 million in the past four years, an 87 percent increase compared to fiscal years 2004-07. To date, companies that have licensed products invented by MU scientists have received about $1 billion in sales revenues. (economic development)
