The following data provide a profile of the students who enrolled as first-time freshmen for the fall 2011 semester. You may view this data in PDF format 
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- Total first-time freshman enrollment: 2,519
- Gender:
- Female: 1,474 (58.5%)
- Male : 1,045 (41.5%)
- Enrollment by college of major:
- Agriculture, School of: 48 (1.9%)
- Arts and Letters: 370 (14.7%)
- Business Administration: 423 (16.8%)
- Education*: 130 (5.2%)
- Health and Human Services: 523 (20.8%)
- Humanities and Public Affairs: 131 (5.2%)
- Natural and Applied Sciences: 252 (10.0%)
- Undeclared: 642 (25.5%)
* Includes only students in early childhood, elementary, middle school, and special education. Students in secondary education and are included with the subject areas they plan to teach.
- Geographic origin:
- Southwest Missouri: 747 (29.3%)
- St. Louis (St. Louis City, St. Louis, St. Charles, Franklin, and Jefferson Counties): 769 (30.5%)
- Kansas City (Jackson, Clay and Platte Counties): 261 (10.4%)
- Other Missouri counties: 491 (19.5%)
- Other states (28 other states represented): 226 (9.0%)
- Other countries (14 other countries represented): 25 (1.0%)
- Class rank:
- Percent of ranked students in top half of class: 83.5%
- Number of students ranked #1 or #2 in their class: 115 (4.6%)
- ACT composite:
- Average*: 24.1
- Middle 50%: 21 to 26
- Number with 30 or higher: 223 (8.9%)
* Average ACT for Missouri high school graduates in 2010 was 21.6
- Year of high school graduation:
- Current year: 2,382 (94.6%)
- Previous year: 61 (2.4%)
- Two or more years ago: 76 (3.0%)
- Average high school grade point average: 3.59
- Number in Honors College: 341 (13.5%)
- Number of minority students: 296 (11.8%)
- Number living in residence halls: 2,070 (82.2%)
- Number with college credit: 1,373 (54.5%)
- Retention rate (fall 2009 to fall 2010): 75.4%