History of Missouri S&T
One of the four campuses in the University of Missouri System, Missouri S&T was founded in 1870 as the University of Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy and was the first technological institution west of the Mississippi. It became the University of Missouri-Rolla in 1964 and effective January 2008 became Missouri University of Science and Technology. Missouri S&T remains one of the nation's top technological universities. 

Facts and StatisticsThe Basics
- Located in Rolla, Missouri, a town of 16,000 in the heart of the Ozarks
- First U.S. university to attain ISO 14001 certification for environmental management
- Joe Miner is the campus mascot and represents the university's historical connection to the mining and metallurgical practices of the late 1800s.

Resources
- Campus comprises 284 acres
- Library contains nearly 400,000 volumes and 1,500 periodical subscriptions
- 400 Faculty

Enrollment
- 4,300 undergraduate
- 1,300 graduate
- 76 percent male
- 8 percent minority
- 26 percent of our students are from 48 states and 55 foreign countries
- 74 percent of undergraduates are from Missouri

Athletics
- NCAA Division II
- Great Lakes Valley Conference
- 12 intercollegiate sports (men's varsity: baseball, basketball, cross country, football, soccer, swimming, track and field; women's varsity: basketball, cross country, soccer, softball, track and field)
- 19 intramural sports

National Rankings
- A top 100 best value in public higher education by Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine, January 2006
- A top 25 "connected campus" by Forbes.com and Princeton Review, January 2006
- A top 25 entrepreneurial campus by Forbes.com, "America's Most Entrepreneurial Campuses," 2004
- A top 50 engineering school by U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Colleges," 2005
- One of "America's Best Value Colleges" by The Princeton Review, 2004