College profile
University of Missouri-St Louis
MO · Public · Large suburb · 4,627 applicants 2023
A parent's read
- The major moves the money more than the admit letter. Computer Science grads from here earn about $102,723 four years out; education grads about $38,074 — a 2.7× spread on the same diploma. Have the major conversation before you deposit, not after.
- The payoff holds even at full price: roughly 4× over a decade. With no aid at all — the full in-state ~$31,199/yr — a decade of median earnings (~$53,037/yr) still runs about 4× the four-year cost. This payoff doesn't depend on qualifying for anything. (Out-of-state costs more.)
- Ask the submit question deliberately. This college is test-optional — but at many such colleges, applicants who submit strong scores are admitted at meaningfully higher rates. “Optional” is a strategy decision, not a pass.
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Parent/student verdict
Moderately selectiveSolid match for academically prepared students. Affordable — net price averages ~$15,071/yr among aid recipients. Major value play for in-state residents.
Best for
- In-state residents (tuition ~$14,112 — major value play)
- Students drawn to Business, Management, & Marketing or Social Sciences (the two biggest majors)
- Research-curious students (R2 — active research output)
The reality
- You'd be near the bottom of their admitted class if: SAT below 1030, or ACT below 20 (test bands are the school's own; the GPA floor is our estimate, not a published figure)
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Institutional snapshot
What kind of college is this?
8% of enrolled first-years submitted an SAT score, 36% an ACT — these ranges describe students who submitted, not the whole class.
Source: federal IPEDS Admissions 2023 for scores + admit rate; federal College Scorecard (20260606 vintage) for earnings + outcomes. SAT/ACT bands are the 25th–75th percentile of enrolled submitters.
Outcomes & cost
What graduates actually earn, finish, and owe.
Federal College Scorecard data. Earnings are median annual income measured years after entering. Debt is for federal-aid borrowers only (cash-pay students aren't counted).
The real cost
What University of Missouri-St Louis actually costs
Which side your family lands on isn't set by any national income line — it's set by University of Missouri-St Louis's own aid decision: the gap between its price and your family's finances.
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The payoffTen years of typical graduate pay minus four years of cost — how many dollars ahead a typical graduate runs by year ten. Check both the full-price and with-aid versions to see which applies to you; median pay reflects who a college admits and what they study as much as the college itself., both ways
+$406K ahead at full price +$470K with aidSource: College Scorecard (average net price among Title IV first-time, full-time undergraduates who received aid) and each college's published cost of attendance. We don't show the federal net-price-by-income brackets: their categories were fixed in 2008 and never adjusted, and none of the averages is your family's own number — the full story. Payoff = (10-yr median earnings × 10) − (4 years of cost), in dollars — how far ahead a typical graduate runs by year ten; medians travel with the students a college admits and the majors they choose as much as with the college itself. Full price is the published cost of attendance, largely in-state for publics; earnings are 10 years after enrollment, all majors combined.
What students study here
Most popular majors at University of Missouri-St Louis
Top 5 fields of study by bachelor's degrees awarded (most recent IPEDS Completions). Use this to see what University of Missouri-St Louis actually graduates — not just what it markets.
What those majors earn here
Median earnings 4 years after entry, by major — University of Missouri-St Louis's own graduates, not national averages.
| Major (CIP) | 4-yr earnings |
|---|---|
| Computer Science. | $102,723 |
| Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering. | $96,083 |
| Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods. | $89,660 |
| Mechanical Engineering. | $84,087 |
| Civil Engineering. | $81,305 |
| Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing. | $78,608 |
| Accounting and Related Services. | $72,635 |
| Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology. | $66,483 |
| Business/Commerce, General. | $65,373 |
| Mathematics. | $65,331 |
Sources: IPEDS Completions (C2023_a; bachelor's-level first majors, 2-digit CIP family — share is of the top 5 only) · College Scorecard program-level outcomes (PP-FOS). Full college-vs-major comparison: /college-outcomes →
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Feeder high schools
Which high schools send graduates to University of Missouri-St Louis?
3 high schools publish a numbered matriculation list — where their graduates actually enrolled, counted, in the school's own School Profile — and name University of Missouri-St Louis on it. Between them they printed 3 enrolled graduates. Ranked by graduates per class year enrolling at University of Missouri-St Louis, from each school's own published list: the number that school printed, divided by the class years its list covers. The published total and the school's own years label are shown beside every school, so a one-year list and a five-year list can sit on the same page. A list whose class years we cannot read is not divided by a guess — it is listed below with its total instead.
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Counted from each school's own published document, linked on that school's page. A high school that is not here does not publish a numbered list we could read — that is all absence means, and it says nothing about its graduates. Where a school publishes both, the two lists are shown separately: an acceptances list is not a list of enrollments, and the two are never added together.
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At a glance
JSON · Using this page with an AI assistantUniversity of Missouri-St Louis is a public four-year college in MO. It admitted 57% of applicants (4,627 applied, 2023). Test policy: Test-optional.
Middle 50% of enrolled first-years who submitted that test: SAT 1030–1220, ACT 20–27. 8% of enrolled first-years submitted an SAT score, 36% an ACT — these ranges describe students who submitted, not the whole class.
Cost: about $15,071 a year on average with aid, $31,199 a year at full price for in-state students.
Median earnings ten years after entry: $53,037 a year. Payoff, meaning ten years of that pay minus four years of cost: $470,086 ahead with aid, $405,574 ahead at full price.
Highest median earnings four years after the degree, by program: Computer Science ($102,723); Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering ($96,083); Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods ($89,660).
High schools that publish a numbered matriculation list and name University of Missouri-St Louis: 3, 3 enrolled students between them — ranked by graduates per class year, most often The Pembroke Hill School - Wornall Campus (1.0 per class year, 1 over 1 class year, Class of 2026); The Barstow School (0.2 per class year, 1 over 5 class years, 2021-2025); York School (0.2 per class year, 1 over 6 class years, Classes of 2021-2026). Each figure is the number that school printed divided by the class years its own list covers; the totals and years are shown. These are the schools that publish such a list, not every school that sends students; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/university-of-missouri-st-louis.
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