MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY N-17

PO Box 9
Murray, KY 42071-0009
Tel: (270)762-3011; 800-272-4678; Admissions: (270)762-3380; Fax: (270)762-3413; Web Site: http://www.murraystate.edu/

Description: State-supported, comprehensive, coed. Part of Kentucky Council on Post Secondary Education. Awards associate, bachelor's, and master's degrees and post-master's certificates. Founded 1922. Setting: 238-acre small town campus. Endowment: $38 million. Research spending 2002-03: $2.2 million. Educational spending 2002-03: $5800 per student. Total enrollment: 10,093. Faculty: 540 (393 full-time, 147 part-time). Student-undergrad faculty ratio is 16:1. 2,972 applied, 63% were admitted. 32% from top 10% of their high school class, 65% from top quarter, 98% from top half. 85 valedictorians. Full-time: 6,901 students, 58% women, 42% men. Part-time: 1,477 students, 64% women, 36% men. Students come from 43 states and territories, 59 other countries, 29% from out-of-state, 1% Native American, 1% Hispanic, 6% black, 1% Asian American or Pacific Islander, 2% international, 22% 25 or older, 40% live on campus, 7% transferred in. Retention: 74% of 2003 full-time freshmen returned. Academic areas with the most degrees conferred: education; business/marketing; communications/communication technologies. Core. Calendar: semesters. Academic remediation for entering students, ESL program, services for LD students, advanced placement, accelerated degree program, freshman honors college, honors program, independent study, distance learning, double major, summer session for credit, part-time degree program, external degree program, adult/continuing education programs, co-op programs and internships, graduate courses open to undergrads. Off campus study at National Student Exchange. Study abroad program. ROTC: Army (c).

Entrance Requirements: Options: electronic application, early admission, deferred admission. Required: high school transcript, minimum 3.0 high school GPA, rank in top 50% of graduating class, ACT. Recommended: interview. Required for some: recommendations. Entrance: moderately difficult. Application deadlines: Rolling, 8/1 for nonresidents. Notification: continuous.

Costs Per Year: Application fee: $25. State resident tuition: $2944 full-time, $123 per hour part-time. Nonresident tuition: $5000 full-time, $211 per hour part-time. Mandatory fees: $492 full-time, $20 per hour part-time. Full-time tuition and fees vary according to reciprocity agreements. Part-time tuition and fees vary according to reciprocity agreements. College room and board: $4380. College room only: $2174. Room and board charges vary according to board plan. $5000 full-time and $200 per hour part-time regional out of state tuition for Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee, and Missouri students.

Collegiate Environment: Orientation program. Drama-theater group, choral group, marching band, student-run newspaper, radio station. Social organizations: 210 open to all; national fraternities, national sororities, local fraternities, local sororities; 17% of eligible men and 10% of eligible women are members. Most popular organizations: student government, Baptist Student Union, Phi Mu Alpha, Residential Colleges. Major annual events: Homecoming, All Campus Sing, Fall Family Weekend. Student services: legal services, health clinic, personal-psychological counseling, women's center. Campus security: 24-hour emergency response devices and patrols, student patrols, late night transport-escort service, controlled dormitory access. 3,000 college housing spaces available; 2,850 were occupied in 2002-03. Freshmen guaranteed college housing. On-campus residence required through sophomore year. Options: coed, women-only housing available. Harry Lee Waterfield Library plus 1 other with 470,000 books, 3,000 serials, an OPAC, and a Web page. Operations spending 2002-03: $2.3 million. 1,500 computers available on campus for general student use. A campuswide network can be accessed from student residence rooms and from off campus. Staffed computer lab on campus.

Community Environment: The area around Munas has a hospital and several churches. Recreation is available at nearby Kentucky Lake, the largest lake created by the Tennessee Valley Authority, Lake Barkley, and Land Between Lakes, a recreation area of 177,000 acres. Part-time employment is available.