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Admissions Pay Tuition Financial Aid Scholarships and Grants Alumni and Giving Athletics Visit Campus Careers at UMSL Academic Catalog2023-24 Edition 2023-24 Edition Search catalog Submit searchBulletin Contents Explore Programs Undergraduate Study 4 Year Plan of Study Learning Outcomes Graduate Study General Education Requirements College of Arts and Sciences College of Business Administration College of Education College of Nursing College of Optometry The Graduate School Pierre Laclede Honors College School of Social Work UMSL/​Washington University Joint Undergraduate Engineering Program International Studies and Programs Supporting Offices Internship and Cooperative Education Positions Academic Integrity Student Conduct and Title IX Policies Confidentiality Policies Tuition and Payments Missouri Score Card Programs A-​Z Courses of Instruction Archives Print Options General Information Overview History and Mission Governance Calendar This Bulletin includes a description of undergraduate and graduate policies and programs at the University of Missouri-St. Louis for 2023-2024. All statements in this publication concerning regulations, fees, curricula, or other matters are subject to change without notice. They are not to be regarded as offers to contract. The University of Missouri – St. Louis is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, by the Higher Learning Commission , a historically regional accreditation agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. The policies of the University of Missouri-St. Louis comply with the provisions under those laws that forbid discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, religion, age, handicap, or veteran status in any program or activity of the University ( CRR 600.010-600.020 ). Bulletins for the past thirteen years are posted in the archives section of this site. Older versions are available in campus advising offices and Academic Affairs or in the Institutional Repository Library . Program requirements are also available to students through Degree Audit Reports (DARS) , which are available online or from an academic adviser, who will assist in the interpretation of the audit. The University of Missouri-St. Louis is one of four campuses that constitute the University of Missouri. Established in Columbia in 1839 on the ideals of Thomas Jefferson, the University of Missouri became a land-grant institution upon passage of the Morrill Act by Congress in 1862. When the University of Missouri System was organized in 1963, the St. Louis campus was the only one that started as an entirely new university. The University of Missouri-St. Louis began as a consequence of the national movement to create public universities in metropolitan centers. UMSL was designed to educate the area’s professionals through research, coursework, and hands-on experiences in the region’s businesses, schools, hospitals, agencies, and arts organizations. According to the campus’s history, The Emerging University: The University of Missouri-St Louis, 1963-1983, faculty were hired from prestigious universities with a vision of creating a university where graduates would be able to confront urban issues through research, critical thinking, and creativity. More than traditional workforce development, these leaders’ vision for UMSL was to educate students for lifelong learning, which would produce good citizens and effective leaders in the region’s organizations. That legacy continues because those early leaders created a culture of faculty excellence that persists today. Since the doors of the old Administration Building opened on a golf course more than 50 years ago, UMSL has grown to encompass 470 acres in St. Louis County and has a mix of modern and historic academic buildings. The campus is now St. Louis’s largest university in the number of students and is the third largest in the state. The campus takes pride in the success of its students, faculty, and staff and highlights of these successes are posted regularly on the UMSL home page. Detailed information about the university is also available on the About UMSL site and the Student Consumer Information site. Student achievement data can be found on the College Portrait . The University of Missouri St. Louis is the metropolitan, land-grant, research institution serving the most diverse and economically important region in Missouri. Mission We transform lives. Vision The University of Missouri St. Louis will be a beacon of hope, a force for good, and a leader in the pursuit of excellence in education, impactful research and community service. We boldly assert that education is for everyone who is willing and able to seek it out. We honor the duties inherent in our land-grant beginnings by positioning ourselves as partners in the search for knowledge, progress and positive change for ourselves, our communities, our world. Faculty Senate and University Assembly The Faculty Senate has primary responsibility for making educational policy decisions to create a rigorous, innovative, student-oriented environment for learning, research, and community service. The Senate and University Assembly together and through their committees advise the chancellor and other senior administrators on matters related to students, faculty and staff. The Faculty Senate includes a faculty member from each department and approximately 10 at-large faculty members, as well as three administrators who are non-voting members. The University Assembly consists of the elected members of the Senate, five administrators, student representatives, and staff members. Non-voting members consist of vice chancellors and vice provosts not already included, deans of all colleges, the dean of libraries, and the president of the Student Government Association. The Faculty Senate meets monthly between September and May and the Assembly meets in alternate months during the year. Information about the Faculty Senate and University Assembly are available on the Senate’s web site. Staff Association The University of Missouri—St. Louis Staff Association is a body formed to consider, to recommend, and to take such other actions as are properly related to the common concerns and best interest of those personnel at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. The Staff Association fosters a spirit of unity and cooperation among all employees of the University of Missouri-St. Louis, to consider methods and means by which employment conditions may be improved and the operating efficiency of the University of Missouri-St. Louis increased; to receive and consider matters concerning working conditions of membership; to make such...