The following data provide a profile of new transfer students who enrolled for the fall 2011 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: 944 (55.3%)
- Male: 762 (44.7%)
- Enrollment by college of major:
- Agriculture, School of: 61 (3.6%)
- Arts and Letters: 191 (11.2%)
- Business Administration *: 528 (30.9%)
- Education **: 158 (9.3%)
- Health and Human Services: 282 (16.5%)
- Humanities and Public Affairs: 127 (7.4%)
- Natural and Applied Sciences: 174 (10.2%)
- Undeclared: 185 (10.8%)
* Includes 64 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: 821 (48.1%)
- St. Louis (St. Louis City, St. Louis, St. Charles, Franklin, and Jefferson Counties): 264 (15.5%)
- Kansas City (Clay, Jackson and Platte Counties): 77 (4.5%)
- Other Missouri counties: 190 (11.1%)
- Other states (27 other states represented): 110 (6.4%)
- Other countries (21 other countries represented): 244 (14.3%)
- Type of sending institution:
- Two-year institutions
- Missouri public *: 1,055 (61.8%)
- Domestic: 872 (51.1%)
- West Plains-Dalian to MSU 119 (7.0%)
- China Bachelor's Completion 64 (3.8%)
- Missouri private: 10 (0.6%)
- Out-of-state: 129 (7.6%)
- Subtotal: 1,194 (70.0%)
- Four-year institutions
- Missouri public: 189 (11.1%)
- Missouri private: 139 (8.1%)
- Out-of-state: 138 (8.1%)
- Subtotal: 466 (27.3%)
- Other (Exchange Program): 45 (2.6%)
* includes Missouri State-West Plains
- Number of multicultural students: 165 (9.7%)
- Number living in residence halls: 371 (21.7%)
- By classification:
- Freshman: 245 (14.4%)
- Sophomore: 581 (34.1%)
- Junior: 762 (44.7%)
- Senior: 118 (6.9%)