UMKC Facts

Enrollment:

• Enrollment: 14,818 (Fall 2009) undergraduate and graduate students
• Enrollment breakdown: 63.4% undergraduate, 36.6% graduate

Enrollment diversity:

• 0.1%  Native Hawaiian/Pacific
• 0.5% American Indian/Alaskan Native
• 0.9% Identified as two or more
• 3.9% Hispanic
• 5.3 % Asian
• 6.7% Non-resident International
• 9.8% not available
• 11.4% Black, non-Hispanic
• 61% White

Where students come from:

• 47 states and 67 countries

Number of international students:

• 993 (2009 data)

Where students live:

• 861 students live on-campus

Average number of undergraduate credit hours taken each semester:

• 12.42 (excludes dual credit high school students)

Retention rates for freshmen:

• 75.4% (2009 data)

Graduation rate of all freshmen:

• 43.6% (2002 data)

First-time, full-time, degree-seeking freshmen students receiving financial aid:

3 locations:

• Volker campus
• Hospital Hill campus
• Northland location

Schools:

• College of Arts and Sciences
• Conservatory of Music and Dance
• Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration
• School of Biological Sciences
• School of Computing and Engineering
• School of Dentistry
• School of Education
• School of Law
• School of Medicine
• School of Nursing
• School of Pharmacy
• School of Graduate Studies
• University Libraries

Majors and Programs

• 50+ majors or programs
• 125 academic areas
• Major Maps for undergraduates
• Graduate School Information
• Graduate Professional Programs

Number of faculty:

• Academic
  • Instructional
    • Full Time: 539
    • Part Time: 440
  • Research
    • Full Time: 106
    • Part Time: 71
  • Other Academic
    • Full Time: 574
    • Part Time: 241
• Non-Academic
  • Full Time: 1,261
  • Part Time: 685
• Total
  • 3,917

Student to faculty ratio:

• 1 faculty member per 12 students

Attainment

• 95% of all educators at UMKC hold doctorates or the highest possible degree in their fields of study
• UMKC has 48 endowed chairs and professorships, the most of any UM System campus

Number

• 96,068 alumni of record

Ties to the community

• 36% reside in Missouri
• 43% reside in the greater Kansas City metro area
• 24,463 alumni live in Jackson county, Missouri (June 2008)

In-state Leadership:

• 8 UMKC alumni in the Missouri House of Representatives
• 4 UMKC alumni in the Missouri Senate
• 6 UMKC alumni on the Kansas City, Mo., City Council
• 9 area mayors are UMKC alumni