Founded in 1870 as one of the first technological schools west of the Mississippi, Missouri S&T is one of the nation’s top technological research universities. Missouri S&T produced the engineers, scientists and innovators who helped drive the Industrial Revolution and launch the Space Age. Today, our graduates are poised to lead the new global, green economy.

How we rate
Missouri S&T has a worldwide reputation for academic excellence. But don't just take our word for it. Here’s what others are saying.

• No. 1 "Awesome College Lab" for our Experimental Mine (Popular Science, September 2010).
• No. 1 in the Midwest -- and 12th in the nation -- among public colleges for "getting rich" (Forbes.com, August 2008).
• No. 2 highest starting salaries in the Midwest among all universities, and third in the nation among public universities, according to a survey of average starting salaries for graduates (PayScale.com, July 2010).
• No. 6 "Great Schools, Great Prices" among public universities (U.S. News & World Report, August 2010).
• A top 20 STEM Research University (Academic Analytics, January 2008). STEM stands for "science, technology, engineering and mathematics."
• Top 50 best public colleges as rated by America's high school counselors (U.S. News & World Report, August 2010). Missouri S&T ranked 35th in the survey among public universities.

Experience S&T

• 7,000 students (5,400 undergraduate, 1,600 graduate) from 47 states and 51 nations
• More than 65 degree programs in engineering, science, computing and technology, business, management systems, the humanities and the liberal arts
• 15 accredited undergraduate engineering programs (more than MIT, Purdue, Illinois or Michigan and three times the average number found at U.S. universities)
• 284-acre campus in Rolla, a community of 18,000 in the heart of the Missouri Ozarks and one of the "best small towns in America"
• More than 200 student organizations
• Seven men's varsity sports, six women’s varsity sports, and 19 intramurals
• 14 award-winning student design teams -- our solar car team has won two national championships
• S&T has 25 research centers and institutes

Degrees that make a difference

• First-time pre-med placement rate over the past 10 years for S&T grads is 75 percent (average national rate is 44 percent)
• More than 300 companies and graduate schools annually recruit S&T graduates
• $57,300 is the average paycheck right out of S&T. The average starting salary nationally is $48,351.
• S&T is a "top key school" for many Fortune 500 corporations that recruit on campus
• Three of our grads have become NASA astronauts

Energy and the environment

• S&T was the first U.S. university to attain ISO 14001 certification for environmental management
• We're home to the Midwest’s only rural hydrogen fueling station
• The hydrogen fueling station is located at the E3 Commons, a place where students and researchers focus on energy, environment and education
• We also have a "solar village" -- four student-built and inhabited solar homes