Affordability & Value
Missouri State offers AFFORDABILITY & VALUE.
- Our tuition and fees are below the average for public colleges in Missouri, and our room and board rates are among the state’s very lowest
- We offer a number of services and activities at no additional charge (such as physician visits at the health center and admission to athletic events)
- Missouri State University has a comprehensive scholarship and financial aid program and offers a deferred payment program to pay costs on a monthly basis.
- Our Student Employment Service helps students find part-time jobs on campus and in town.
- Through the Missouri State Promise Scholarship, we ensure that qualified Missouri students from households with incomes below the poverty level will receive sufficient gift aid to cover tuition and books.
How Missouri State University's Costs Compare
The following data are for the 2008-09 academic year, the most recent year for which comparative data are available.
Average Tuition and Fees for 2008-09
Source: College Board Trends in College Pricing
* Enrollment weighted
Jeremiah Athmer
Chemistry
Jeremiah Athmer is a determined guy: When he wanted a job at Missouri States’ research center, he stood outside a professor’s door for an hour then made a case for why he should be in the lab despite being a freshman. He is now an undergraduate research assistant, helping with studies that use saliva to diagnose migraine and allergic rhinosinusitis (or, in his words, “I look at molecules in peoples’ spit”). more