Admissions & acceptance rate
First-time freshman admissions: how selective the college is, and how many admitted students choose to enroll.
Graduation rate & outcomes
Completion, retention, and the equity gap between Pell and non-Pell students.
Pell equity
Non-Pell students graduate at a 15.9-point higher rate than Pell recipients.
Source: IPEDS Graduation Rates (GR) — Pell/SSL cohort, 2024 cohort.
Program outcomes
Federal Program Performance Data: how each program's graduate earnings and debt measure up under Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment.
Of 144 Title IV programs, 43 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 0 fail. 101 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing43 · 29.9%
- No Data101 · 70.1%
- Failing0 · 0.0%
Severity spectrum
Tiers band programs by how far graduate earnings sit above or below the benchmark, from Critical (below −15%) through Safe (above +25%). No data means earnings were privacy-suppressed.
Earnings premium gap
Graduate earnings versus the federal benchmark, worst gaps first.
Near the line (±5%)
Programs within five points of the pass line, one cohort year from flipping.
Debt vs earnings
Median completer debt against median graduate earnings, highest burden first.
Accreditation status & history
Who accredits the institution, current standing, and any past actions.
Higher Learning Commission
Programmatic accreditations · 11
Action history · 11
- May 2025Renewal of AccreditationAmerican Optometric Association, Accreditation Council on Optometric Education · Optometry (OPTR) - Residency programs
- May 2025Renewal of AccreditationAmerican Optometric Association, Accreditation Council on Optometric Education · Optometry (OPTR) - Residency programs
- Apr 2025Renewal of AccreditationAmerican Psychological Association, Commission on Accreditation · Clinical Psychology (CLPSY) - PhD Doctoral programs
- May 2021Loss of Accreditation or Preaccreditation: Voluntary WithdrawalCommission on Collegiate Nursing Education · Nursing (CNURED) - Nursing education programs at the graduate degree levels
- Jan 2019Renewal of AccreditationHigher Learning Commission
Tuition & cost
What families actually pay, broken down by family income.
Net price by family income
Negative values mean aid exceeds the published cost of attendance for that income band.
Federal aid volume & trends
Pell grants and federal Direct Loan volume disbursed to students, and how they've trended.
In AY 2024–25, 2,791 students received $14.7M in Pell grants, alongside $47.5M in federal Direct Loans.
Pell recipients · 5-year trend
Loan volume by type · AY 2024–25
Loan awards count each loan type a student holds, not unique borrowers; one student may carry several (e.g. subsidized and unsubsidized), so the per-type figures are the reliable detail.
Student loan default rate
The share of student borrowers who default on federal loans within three years, against the national benchmark.
Of 2,799 borrowers who entered repayment, 39 (1.3%) defaulted within three years — below the 2.3% national rate.
Default rate vs national, by cohort
* Cohorts 2020 and later read near 0% because the federal COVID-19 payment pause (CARES Act) suspended defaults nationwide. These years reflect a national policy, not institutional performance; the 2019 cohort is the last measured under normal repayment.
Academic programs at UMSL
Top program areas ranked by completions.
Top program families by completions
Enrollment trends & demographics
Fall headcount, 12-month unduplicated enrollment, and student body composition.
Gender split
Race / ethnicity composition
Athletics & Title IX gender equity
How athletic participation, aid, and spending are split between men and women.
Men vs women · spending splits
Sport-by-sport · 9
Campus safety & crime statistics
Reported on-campus crimes over the last three years, including violence and hate crimes.
3-year trend
Criminal offenses by type
By location
- On campus5
Includes 1 in residence halls (a subset of on-campus, not added to the total).
VAWA offenses
Hate crimes by bias
No hate crimes reported.
Arrests vs disciplinary referrals
Residence-hall fires
- Oak Hall2 firesCookingDamage $0-$99
- Oak Hall2 firesCookingDamage $0-$99
Student-faculty ratio
Student-to-faculty ratio and instructional staff counts.
UMSL vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions UMSL selected for federal comparison reporting.
A larger shape on any axis means this institution outperforms its peers on that dimension. For acceptance rate and net price, lower raw values are inverted so "more selective" and "more affordable" appear larger.
| Carnegie | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectUniversity of Missouri-St Louis | 57% | — | 14,736 | $15,071 | R2 Research |
| 54% | 72.2% | 14,732 | $13,310 | R2 Research | |
| 64% | 72.5% | 7,154 | $16,298 | R2 Research | |
| 49% | 87.0% | 14,972 | $13,441 | R2 Research | |
| 61% | 76.9% | 15,019 | $18,551 | R2 Research | |
| 51% | 93.9% | 16,689 | $13,194 | R2 Research | |
| Peer group median | 55% | 76.9% | 14,854 | $14,256 |
Institutions like UMSL
Explore the federal data for institutions in UMSL's comparison group.
- R2 ResearchMissouri
University of Missouri-Kansas City
Grad rate54%Admit rate72.2%Enrollment14,732Net price$13,310View data - R2 ResearchMissouri
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Grad rate64%Admit rate72.5%Enrollment7,154Net price$16,298View data - R2 ResearchNebraska
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Grad rate49%Admit rate87.0%Enrollment14,972Net price$13,441View data - R2 ResearchNorth Dakota
University of North Dakota
Grad rate61%Admit rate76.9%Enrollment15,019Net price$18,551View data - R2 ResearchKansas
Wichita State University
Grad rate51%Admit rate93.9%Enrollment16,689Net price$13,194View data
UMSL Institutional Research office
The IR team responsible for the institution's federal reporting.
The mission of Institutional Research at the University of Missouri-St. Louis is to provide data about the campus and analytical services to academic and administrative decision-makers and external constituents in a manner that is accurate, consistent, understandable and timely. The goal of the department is to support strategic planning, policy formulation and analysis of ongoing operations to further the teaching, research and service missions of the University.
Visit IR office page- George Vineyard PhDDirector of Institutional Research
- Pedda Naga Manikanta 'Mani' GolukondaData Research Analyst
Common Data Set
UMSL's own annual Common Data Set: the most detailed self-reported reference for selectivity, cost, outcomes, and the student body.
Source publications
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