Admissions & selectivity
University of Missouri-St Louis Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at University of Missouri-St Louis?
University of Missouri-St Louis’s reported acceptance rate is 62.7%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 62.7%
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
University of Missouri-St Louis admitted 62.7% of applicants to its reported entering class, a lower rate than the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do University of Missouri-St Louis students report?
University of Missouri-St Louis presents score ranges as context for the academic profile of enrolled students who submitted them, rather than as admission thresholds. Applicants with SAT scores can compare them with the 1,060 to 1,290 range, which covers the middle half of enrolled SAT submitters.
The middle half of enrolled ACT submitters scored from 19 to 27. These ranges describe separate groups of students who enrolled and chose to provide scores; neither range sets a minimum for admission.
Applicants using the SAT figures should also weigh the rest of their academic record, since submitted scores are only one view of the recent enrolled class.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at University of Missouri-St Louis. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1060
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1290
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
- 19
- 75th percentile
- 27
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at University of Missouri-St Louis?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 18.3%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 68.4%
- First-year retention
- 73.6%
Retention source: College Scorecard; full-time first-year retention.
About these student measures
The entering-student group includes part-time entrants as well as other attendance patterns.
University of Missouri-St Louis has an undergraduate population shaped substantially by students arriving from other colleges: an estimated 68.4% share of entrants outside the first-time, full-time group. The public university enrolls 5,024 undergraduates, and 18.4% receive Pell Grants, a federal aid measure.
This composition suggests a campus where many undergraduates enter with prior college coursework alongside students using grant aid. Pell-eligible and transfer applicants should ask how prior credits and aid eligibility will be reviewed before enrolling.
For applicants coming through either route, the figures point to varied entry paths rather than a class made up chiefly of new first-year entrants.
Completion at University of Missouri-St Louis sits above the peer benchmark, though first-year persistence is just below it. The six-year graduation rate for the first-time full-time cohort is 56.6%, above the peer median of 49.1% for comparable institutions.
Its first-year retention rate is 73.6%, below the peer median of 73.7%. Pell recipients in that cohort have a six-year completion rate of 56.5%, below the overall rate by 0.1 percentage points.
Enrolled students can expect graduation outcomes above those at comparable institutions, with returning for a second year close to the peer benchmark. Higher completion and near-peer retention point in somewhat different directions.
Data & methodology
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.
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