Admissions & selectivity
Missouri Southern State University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Missouri Southern State University?
Missouri Southern State University’s reported acceptance rate is 97.0%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 97.0%
Source: College Scorecard · Fall 2024 admissions. Acceptance rates can change from year to year; this figure does not predict the current or next admission cycle.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
Missouri Southern State University admitted 97.0% of applicants in the reported cycle, a rate above the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size). That makes the school’s reported admission outcome broader than its peer benchmark, without predicting an individual decision.
What SAT and ACT scores do Missouri Southern State University students report?
At Missouri Southern State University, submitted scores offer context for the academic profile of enrolled score submitters, not an admissions threshold. The reported ranges cover the middle half of enrolled students who submitted each test, so they are not minimum scores or a profile of every enrollee.
SAT and ACT results describe separate groups of score submitters. Applicants should compare an SAT result with the university’s 1,150 through 1,420 range for enrolled SAT submitters.
They should likewise set an ACT result beside the 17 through 24 range reported for enrolled ACT submitters.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Missouri Southern State University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1150
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1420
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff. The endpoints add section percentiles; they are not verified composite-score percentiles. A separate SAT-equivalent average is not plotted as a median. Source: College Scorecard; sum of section 25th/75th percentiles; enrolled score-submitters.
- 25th percentile
- 17
- 75th percentile
- 24
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Missouri Southern State University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 34.0%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 39.5%
- First-year retention
- 62.8%
Retention source: College Scorecard; full-time first-year retention.
About these student measures
These measures use different populations and reporting periods, rather than one current entering class. The entering-student group includes part-time entrants as well as other attendance patterns.
Transfer pathways are a notable part of the undergraduate mix at Missouri Southern State University, where an estimated 39.5% of undergraduates arrive after starting elsewhere. Undergraduate enrollment is 3,019, and 34.0% of undergraduates receive Pell Grants, a federal grant-aid measure.
The figures point to a campus with both students beginning there and people continuing coursework from another institution, rather than one defined by a single route into a degree. Pell-eligible and transfer applicants should ask how grant eligibility and previously completed coursework will be handled before applying.
These enrollment figures describe who attends; they do not describe admission priorities or any individual applicant’s prospects.
Students considering Missouri Southern State University should expect retention and completion rates that sit below the middle value for comparable institutions. The first-year retention rate for full-time bachelor’s-seeking entrants is 62.8%, compared with a peer median of 73.7% for comparable institutions.
Its six year graduation rate for the first-time full-time cohort is 41.6%, versus the comparable-institution median of 49.1%. Pell recipients in that cohort complete within six years at 36.0%, below the overall rate by 5.6 percentage points.
Both persistence measures sit below their peer medians, and Pell completion is lower than the overall completion rate.
Data & methodology
A missing figure does not mean zero. Sources and reporting periods: methodology.
Analysis and methodology by Daniel Rogers, founder of College Azimuth.
Explanatory text is AI-assisted drafting checked against those figures; it is not an additional data source.
Admission rates describe past applicants, not an individual’s chance of admission; confirm requirements and deadlines with the institution.
Figure notes link to sources and limitations. About College Azimuth.