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unitid 178396 · Columbia, MO · public 4-year · city (midsize)

University of Missouri-Columbia

Public university in Columbia, Missouri, US

founded
1839
enrollment 2023
33,993
predominant degree
Bachelor's
Campus of University of Missouri-Columbia

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The University of Missouri is a public land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri, United States. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus University of Missouri System. Founded in 1839, MU was the first public university west of the Mississippi River. It has been a member of the Association of American Universities since 1908 and is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity." wikipedia rev 1363360290 ↗

scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within public 4-years

The record

admission rate

78%

42nd pctl among public 4-years

undergraduates

23,929

91st pctl among public 4-years

Pell share

20%

undergrads on Pell grants

17th pctl among public 4-years

completion

75%

finish within 150% time

92nd pctl among public 4-years

sticker cost / yr

$31,713

92nd pctl among public 4-years

avg net price / yr

$20,268

after aid, aided students

91st pctl among public 4-years

median earnings, 10 yr

$63,403

after entry, Title IV students

81st pctl among public 4-years

median grad debt

$20,500

59th pctl among public 4-years

what families actually pay

Cost

Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.

Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort

Families earning under $30k paid $13,841 per year after aid.

Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of public 4-years (all incomes).

Who enrolls, by family income

  • 0-30k
    17%
  • 30-48k
    13%
  • 48-75k
    15%
  • 75-110k
    not reported
  • 110k+
    not reported
Median family income
$76,952
First-generation students
20%
In-state tuition & fees
$14,837

earnings · debt · programs

Outcomes

Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid

Ten years out, the median graduate earns 3.1× the median graduate debt.

Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.

What programs pay — top fields of study

programgradsearn 5 yrdebt
Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies.1,253—$21,500
Business/Commerce, General.792$80,927$21,500
Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General.528$64,581$23,250
Journalism.461$68,004$21,400
Psychology, General.358$54,167$20,500
Biology, General.281$65,628$23,188
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.247$74,241$23,250
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.224$42,120$20,867
Computer and Information Sciences, General.213$93,018$21,000
Accounting and Related Services.207$93,114—
Student Counseling and Personnel Services.173$58,354—
Accounting and Related Services.171$96,383$20,707

— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.

annual scorecard files, 1996–2026

Trajectory

Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.

Admission rate

Price per year

  • sticker
  • net

Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry

Undergraduates

wikidata · 3,569 people recorded

Memory

Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.

Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field

Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade

People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.

Wikipedia attention

monthly article views since 2015

most recorded occupationsresearcher (899) · basketball player (529) · university teacher (269) · politician (265) · journalist (203) · American football player (174) · lawyer (156) · writer (134)

Nobel laureates who studied here

  • Frederick Chapman Robbins Medicine 1954
  • Barbara McClintock Medicine 1983

The portrait wall

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built 2026-07-17

Provenance

  • U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
  • Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
  • Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
  • Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
  • Images are from Wikimedia Commons under free licenses. Render the credit line (artist + license) with every image.
  • Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1363360290), CC BY-SA 4.0.