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University of Missouri - Kansas City was awarded 19 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is general psychology.
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College Factual ranked UMKC as #674 out of 2,152 colleges and universities in the country on its 2025 Best Colleges list.
UMKC is also ranked #14 out of 48 schools in Missouri.
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The acceptance rate at University of Missouri - Kansas City is a competitive 69%, so make sure you take your application seriously when putting it together. Even leaving out a minor detail could be a reason to move you to the rejection pile.
About 3% of students accepted to UMKC submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 625 and 760. Math scores were between 620 and 790.
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With a student to faculty ratio of 14 to 1, University of Missouri - Kansas City is about average in this regard as the nationwide rate is 15 to 1. While this does not translate directly to class size, it's a good indicator of how much time professors will have to spend with their students on a one-on-one basis.
In addition to the student to faculty ratio, some people look at what percentage of faculty members are full-time as a sign of how much time professors will be able to spend with their students. This is because part-time teachers may not be be on campus as much as their full-time counterparts.
The full-time faculty percentage at University of Missouri - Kansas City is 66%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 77% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like University of Missouri - Kansas City enough to come back for another year. This is a fair bit higher than the national average of 68%. That's certainly something to check off in the good column about the school.
The on-time graduation rate is the percent of first-time, full time students who obtain their bachelor's degree in four years or less. This rate is 27% for first-time, full-time students at UMKC, which is lower than the national rate of 33.3%.
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 11,027 undergraduates at UMKC with 6,071 being full-time and 4,956 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $10,194 | $11,472 | $12,864 | $17,539 | $18,880 |
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of UMKC, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At UMKC, approximately 37% of students took out student loans averaging $6,521 a year. That adds up to $26,084 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for UMKC are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 5000 Holmes St., Kansas City, MO 64110 |
| Phone: | 816-235-1000 |
| Website: | https://www.umkc.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Computer Science | 287 | $69,239 |
| Nursing | 275 | $71,150 |
| General Business/Commerce | 237 | $48,603 |
| Business Administration & Management | 212 | NA |
| General Biology | 172 | $40,483 |
| Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences | 147 | NA |
| Law | 125 | NA |
| Accounting | 121 | $54,357 |
| Liberal Arts General Studies | 121 | $39,992 |
| General Psychology | 113 | $32,224 |
Online learning options are becoming more and more popular at American colleges and universities. Online classes are great for students who have busy schedules or for those who just want to study on their own time.
In 2022-2023, 4,815 students took at least one online class at University of Missouri - Kansas City. This is a decrease from the 7,066 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 4,815 | 885 |
| 2021-2022 | 7,066 | 1,548 |
| 2020-2021 | 10,506 | 4,552 |
| 2018-2019 | 5,177 | 1,082 |
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Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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