Largest Missouri Colleges

University of Missouri-Columbia is the largest Missouri college with 31,304 students. The percentage of online students is 13.06% at the school.

Missouri State University-Springfield with 22,535 students and Washington University in St Louis with 17,012 students are following it in the largetst Missouri college ranking.

For the largest college ranking, we exclude colleges with more than 50% of online students. Instead, you can check them at the largest Missouri online colleges.

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University of Missouri-Columbia is the largest school with 31,304 students and Missouri State University-Springfield has the second largest population with 22,535 students. We note again that colleges with more than 50% of online students are excluded for the ranking.

University of Missouri-Columbia stay at first place of the largest college ranking since last year. Missouri State University-Springfield also maintained its second place in the ranking.

The average undergraduate tuition & fees of the schools is $28,177 and graduate tuition & fees is $25,690 for the academic year 2023-2024.

The average acceptance rate is 70.22% and the average SAT score is 1,234 at the schools.

The following table compares the tuition and other academic characteristics between 10 Largest Missouri Colleges With Most Students.

Table. Largest Missouri Colleges With Most Students Comparison
	School Name	Total Population	Undergraduate Enrollment	Graduation Enrollment	Men Enrollment	Women Enrollment	Online Enrollment	Students to Faculty Ratio
1 -	University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, MO Public, four-years	31,304 215	23,745	7,559	13,746	17,558	4,088	18 to 1
2 -	Missouri State University-Springfield Springfield, MO Public, four-years	22,535 970	18,419	4,116	8,919	13,616	3,848	19 to 1
3 1	Washington University in St Louis Saint Louis, MO Private, four-years	17,012 1,563	8,132	8,880	7,969	9,043	780	7 to 1
4 2	Saint Louis University Saint Louis, MO Private, four-years	15,755 3,526	10,662	5,093	6,451	9,304	1,218	9 to 1
5 2	University of Missouri-Kansas City Kansas City, MO Public, four-years	15,703 444	10,179	5,524	6,664	9,039	885	14 to 1
6 1	University of Missouri-St Louis Saint Louis, MO Public, four-years	15,181 1,307	12,415	2,766	6,142	9,039	2,744	13 to 1
7 2	University of Central Missouri Warrensburg, MO Public, four-years	11,637 1,678	7,345	4,292	5,323	6,314	1,305	19 to 1
8 1	Ozarks Technical Community College Springfield, MO Public, four-years	10,889 348	10,889	-	4,594	6,295	2,632	16 to 1
9 1	Southeast Missouri State University Cape Girardeau, MO Public, four-years	9,927 74	8,454	1,473	4,017	5,910	1,941	20 to 1
10 3	Northwest Missouri State University Maryville, MO Public, four-years	8,505 1,238	5,308	3,197	3,255	5,250	2,742	18 to 1
	Average	15,845	11,555	4,767	6,708	9,137	2,218	15 to 1

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