The following data provide a profile of new transfer students who enrolled for the fall 2012 semester. You may view this data in PDF format and compare profiles of transfer students from previous years 
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- Total transfer enrollment: 1,706
- Gender:
- Female: 893 (55.3%)
- Male: 722 (44.7%)
- Enrollment by college of major:
- Agriculture, School of: 66 (4.1%)
- Arts and Letters: 172 (10.7%)
- Business Administration *: 451 (27.9%)
- Education **: 150 (9.3%)
- Health and Human Services: 297 (18.4%)
- Humanities and Public Affairs: 120 (7.4%)
- Natural and Applied Sciences: 187 (11.6%)
- Undeclared: 172 (10.7%)
* Includes 39 students in the business completion program in China.
** Includes only students in early childhood, elementary, middle school, and special education. Students in secondary education are included with the subject areas they plan to teach.
- Geographic origin:
- Southwest Missouri: 810 (50.2%)
- St. Louis (St. Louis City, St. Louis, St. Charles, Franklin, and Jefferson Counties): 215 (13.3%)
- Kansas City (Clay, Jackson and Platte Counties): 71 (4.4%)
- Other Missouri counties: 179 (11.1%)
- Other states (27 other states represented): 128 (7.9%)
- Other countries (21 other countries represented): 210 (13.0%)
- Type of sending institution:
- Two-year institutions
- Missouri public *: 1,014 (62.8%)
- Domestic: 860 (53.3%)
- West Plains-Dalian to MSU 115 (7.1%)
- China Bachelor's Completion 39 (2.4%)
- Missouri private: 4 (0.2%)
- Out-of-state: 119 (7.4%)
- Subtotal: 1,137 (70.4%)
- Four-year institutions
- Missouri public: 132 (8.2%)
- Missouri private: 138 (8.5%)
- Out-of-state: 168 (10.4%)
- Subtotal: 438 (27.1%)
- Other (Exchange Program): 42 (2.6%)
* includes Missouri State-West Plains
- Number of multicultural students: 171 (10.6%)
- Number living in residence halls: 301 (18.6%)
- By classification:
- Freshman: 239 (14.8%)
- Sophomore: 533 (33.0%)
- Junior: 699 (43.3%)
- Senior: 144 (8.9%)