Notes

These are items that bear looking into more closely.

• This institution’s six year bachelors graduation rate is 58.2%, so approximately 2/5 of undergrads who enroll do not earn a bachelors degree from here.

• This institution’s full-time undergraduate enrollment has tended to decrease over time.

Overview of institution

This, and the rest of the page, use info from the most recent year available, generally 2023.

• Institution kind: Doctoral/Professional Universities

• Undergrad program: Professions plus arts & sciences, high graduate coexistence

• Graduate program: Postbaccalaureate: Comprehensive programs

• Enrollment profile: High undergraduate (see more details below)

• Average net price for undergrads on financial aid: $17,677 . This is 90% the average cost of Harvard.

• Actual price for your family: Go here to see what your family may be asked to pay. It can be MUCH lower than the average price but also higher for some.

• Size and setting: Four-year, large, primarily nonresidential

• In state percentage: 78% of first year students come from Missouri

• In US percentage: 94% of first year students come from the US

• Graduation rate (within 6 years) for students seeking a Bachelors: 58.2% (this is what is usually reported as “graduation rate”)

• Graduation rate (within 4 years) for students seeking a Bachelors: 39.8%

• Student to tenure-stream faculty ratio: 21.7 (undergrads to tenure-stream faculty) [Tenure explained]

• Student to faculty ratio: 15.8 (undergrads to all faculty)

• Degrees offered: Certificate of less than 1 year, Certificate of at least 12 weeks but less than 1 year, Bachelor’s degree, Postbaccalaureate certificate, Master’s degree, Post master’s certificate, Doctor’s degree: research scholarship, Doctor’s degree: professional practice

• Schedule: Semester

• Institution provides on campus housing: Yes

• Dorm capacity: There are enough dorm beds for 3604 students

• Freshmen required to live on campus: No

• Advanced placement (AP) credits used: Yes

• Disabilities: 5.60 percent of undergrads are registered as having disabilities.

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Comparisons

The sections below show this institution compared with others. The ones listed are ones it has identified as peers, who consider themselves peers, and/or who the federal government considers peers. If a comparison school has the same value as the focal school, its cell is grayed out. In fields where there is a common view that higher (or lower) values are better, the best values are in blue, the worst values are in red. If there isn’t a sense of a particular value being better, values are shown in varying shades of green. Arrows show where there is a signficant trend over time for a school. You can swipe across the table to see more of it; the focal school column is always visible.

• Missouri State University-Springfield lists these schools as ones to compare itself within federal IPEDS data, and they do the same back: University of Central Oklahoma, The University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, Northern Kentucky University, Rutgers University-Camden, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville
• Missouri State University-Springfield compares itself to these institutions, but not vice versa: University of Central Florida, Syracuse University, Florida International University, Weber State University, University of Houston, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona, Temple University, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, University of the District of Columbia, University of North Texas, University of North Florida, DePaul University, San Jose State University, Wayne State University, Towson University, Indiana University-Indianapolis, Texas State University, Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Miami Dade College, University of Missouri-Kansas City, University of Missouri-St Louis, University of Louisville, University of Michigan-Dearborn, University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus, Rutgers University-Newark, University of Alaska Anchorage, University of Nebraska at Omaha, University of Arkansas-Fort Smith, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, California State University-Fresno, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, University of Massachusetts-Boston, University of Washington-Tacoma Campus, Portland State University, Pace University, Old Dominion University, Wagner College, Cleveland State University, Westfield State University, College of Staten Island CUNY, University of South Carolina-Upstate, Coppin State University, Widener University, Morgan State University, California State University-Dominguez Hills, University of New Haven, North Carolina Central University, Bowie State University, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Wright State University-Main Campus, Indiana University-Northwest, Metropolitan State University, SUNY Buffalo State University, Metropolitan State University of Denver, University of Baltimore, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-Shreveport, CUNY Medgar Evers College, Harrisburg University of Science and Technology
• These institutions compare themselves to Missouri State University-Springfield, but not vice versa: University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez, CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Eastern Kentucky University, Minnesota State University-Mankato, Arkansas State University, California State University-Northridge, Webster University, Rockhurst University, California State University-Chico, University of Northern Colorado, Eastern Michigan University, Northwest Missouri State University, Emporia State University, Saint Cloud State University, Blessing Rieman College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Johnson & Wales University-Providence, Johnson & Wales University-Charlotte

Enrollment

General

Teaching

Tenure track faculty are those who are eligible for tenure. This includes both pre-tenure and tenured faculty. Once faculty get tenure, they are (generally) protected from being fired for intellectual reasons, helping to ensure their freedom in teaching and research. They can still lose their positions for misconduct, financial problems, not fulfilling their duties, or other reasons.

Non-tenure track faculty are not eligible for tenure. Some are hired one semester at a time, some have multi-year contracts. They typically have a higher teaching load than tenure track faculty, leaving less time for research or other creative endeavors. They are also easier to fire than tenured faculty. Sometimes they are external experts (a noted musician, a former senator) who are hired to teach some classes without the expected permanence of a tenure-track position.

Note that this chart uses US federal demographic data: it only has two genders and a specified set of ethnicities and races.

Having a low student to faculty ratio is considered a good thing by many, as it can mean more individual attention.

Geography

This has information on the location of the institution. See the about page for more information on what the metrics are and how they are calculated.

Financial Aid

Graduation

Note these are bachelors graduation rates in six years, not four (this is standard). Sample sizes can be small for some demographic groups with few individuals in a school, leading to large year-to-year fluctuations and often extreme values for those groups (if there are two individuals in the class with a given identity, the possible graduation rates are 0%, 50%, or 100% depending on whether zero, one, or both students graduate within six years).