The following data provide a profile of the students who enrolled as first-time freshmen for the fall 2012 semester. You may view this data in PDF format 
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- Total first-time freshman enrollment: 2,491
- Gender:
- Female: 1,556 (62.5%)
- Male : 935 (37.5%)
- Enrollment by college of major:
- Agriculture, School of: 76 (3.1%)
- Arts and Letters: 310 (12.4%)
- Business Administration: 367 (14.7%)
- Education*: 144 (5.8%)
- Health and Human Services: 552 (22.2%)
- Humanities and Public Affairs: 150 (6.0%)
- Natural and Applied Sciences: 289 (11.6%)
- Undeclared: 603 (24.2%)
* 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: 767 (30.8%)
- St. Louis (St. Louis City, St. Louis, St. Charles, Franklin, and Jefferson Counties): 702 (28.2%)
- Kansas City (Jackson, Clay and Platte Counties): 297 (11.9%)
- Other Missouri counties: 457 (18.3%)
- Other states (28 other states represented): 235 (9.4%)
- Other countries (14 other countries represented): 33 (1.3%)
- Class rank:
- Percent of ranked students in top half of class: 84.2%
- Number of students ranked #1 or #2 in their class: 108 (4.3%)
- ACT composite:
- Average*: 23.9
- Middle 50%: 21 to 27
- Number with 30 or higher: 186 (7.5%)
* Average ACT for Missouri high school graduates in 2010 was 21.6
- Year of high school graduation:
- Current year: 2,369 (95.1%)
- Previous year: 38 (1.5%)
- Two or more years ago: 82 (3.3%)
- Average high school grade point average: 3.60
- Number in Honors College: 291 (11.7%)
- Number of minority students: 393 (15.8%)
- Number living in residence halls: 2,080 (83.5%)
- Number with college credit: 1,307 (52.5%)
- Retention rate (fall 2011 to fall 2012): 75.4%