University of Missouri-St. Louis

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 International Airport. The campus has 70 academic and general-purpose buildings as well as a variety of student residence halls, condominiums and apartments. The campus 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. Faculty are experts in their respective fields and routinely publish books and articles in nationally renowned academic journals. Several of its 131 degree and certificate programs have attained national recognition for their 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 and 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.