TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY B-7

100 East Normal St.
Kirksville, MO 63501-4221
Tel: (660)785-4000
Admissions: (660)785-4114
Fax: (660)785-7456
E-mail: [email protected]
Web Site: http://www.truman.edu/

Description:

State-supported, comprehensive, coed. Awards bachelor's and master's degrees. Founded 1867. Setting: 140-acre small town campus. Endowment: $16.1 million. Research spending 2003-04: $573,413. Educational spending 2003-04: $6922 per student. Total enrollment: 5,862. Faculty: 377 (347 full-time, 30 part-time). Student-undergrad faculty ratio is 15:1. 4,567 applied, 84% were admitted. 45% from top 10% of their high school class, 81% from top quarter, 99% from top half. 16 National Merit Scholars, 137 valedictorians. Full-time: 5,486 students, 59% women, 41% men. Part-time: 130 students, 49% women, 51% men. Students come from 44 states and territories, 51 other countries, 26% from out-of-state, 0.5% Native American, 2% Hispanic, 4% black, 2% Asian American or Pacific Islander, 4% international, 1% 25 or older, 48% live on campus, 2% transferred in. Retention: 85% of full-time freshmen returned the following year. Academic areas with the most degrees conferred: business/marketing; English; biological/life sciences. Core. Calendar: semesters. ESL program, services for LD students, advanced placement, accelerated degree program, self-designed majors, honors program, double major, summer session for credit, part-time degree program, internships, graduate courses open to undergrads. Off campus study at Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, Reis Biological Station. Study abroad program. ROTC: Army.

Entrance Requirements:

Options: Peterson's Universal Application, Common Application, electronic application, early admission, early action, deferred admission, international baccalaureate accepted. Required: essay, high school transcript, SAT or ACT. Recommended: minimum 3.0 high school GPA, interview, ACT. Entrance: moderately difficult. Application deadlines: 3/1, 11/15 for early action. Notification: continuous, 12/15 for early action. Preference given to state residents.

Costs Per Year:

Application fee: $0. State resident tuition: $5410 full-time, $225.50 per credit hour part-time. Nonresident tuition: $9510 full-time, $396 per credit hour part-time. Mandatory fees: $72 full-time. Part-time tuition varies according to course load. College room and board: $5175. Room and board charges vary according to housing facility.

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 sororities; 30% of eligible men and 20% of eligible women are members. Most popular organizations: Campus Christian Fellowship, Alpha Phi Omega, Student Ambassadors, Alpha Sigma Gamma, Baptist Student Union. Major annual events: Homecoming, Dog Days (spring carnival), Lyceum Series. Student 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, patrols by commissioned officers. 2,926 college housing spaces available; 2,794 were occupied in 2003-04. Freshmen guaranteed college housing. On-campus residence required in freshman year. Options: coed, women-only housing available. Pickler Memorial Library with 492,916 books, 1.5 million microform titles, 3,468 serials, 39,284 audiovisual materials, an OPAC, and a Web page. Operations spending 2003-04: $2.5 million. 900 computers available on campus for general student use. Computer purchase/lease plans available. A campuswide network can be accessed from student residence rooms and from off campus. Staffed computer lab on campus.

Community Environment:

Kirksville, Missouri, is located in the northeastern part of the state, a 3 to 4-hour drive from Kansas City, St. Louis, and Des Moines, Iowa, and 80 miles west of historic Hannibal, Missouri, and Quincy, Illinois. The town is served by a direct Amtrak connection from Chicago and Quincy, IL. A municipal airport provides daily flights to and from Kansas City. Kirksville offers an environment for serious study in a community where higher education is the focal point. Besides University students, the community is home to 17,000 townspeople and nearly 250 medical students at the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine.