Defining a Missouri State freshman Bear
Want to know what your fellow freshman students are like? The information below provides a detailed profile of the freshman students who enrolled for Fall 2017.
- Total: 3,184
- Female: 1,933 (60.7%)
- Male: 1,251 (39.3%)
What they plan to study
- Agriculture: 90 (2.8%)
- Arts and Letters: 337 (10.6%)
- Business: 659 (20.7%)
- Education*: 173 (5.4%)
- Health and Human Services: 741 (23.3%)
- Humanities and Public Affairs: 131 (4.1%)
- Natural and Applied Sciences: 386 (12.1%)
- Undeclared: 667 (20.9%)
* 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.
Where they’re from
- Southwest Missouri: 768 (24.1%)
- St. Louis area: 940 (29.5%) students from St. Louis City, St. Louis, St. Charles, Franklin and Jefferson counties
- Kansas City area: 445 (14.0%) students from Clay, Jackson and Platte counties
- Other Missouri counties: 596 (18.7%)
- Other states: 405 (12.7%)
- Other countries: 29 (0.9%)
By the numbers
- Number in Honors College: 297 (9.3%)
- Underrepresented students: 467 (14.7%)
- Living on campus: 2,700 (84.8%)
Additional information
- Average high school GPA: 3.64
- Average ACT Composite: 23.93
- Percentage that finished in the top half of class: 83.8%