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Welcome to Graduate Studies Q&A. Presented by the Office of Graduate Studies, International Affairs, and the Council of Graduate Students. About Rolla/Missouri S&T. About Rolla.
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Welcome to Graduate Studies Q&A Presented by the Office of Graduate Studies, International Affairs, and the Council of Graduate Students
About Rolla Rolla is a city of about 18,000 located right in the middle of Missouri less than 100 miles from St. Louis, Jefferson City, Columbia and Springfield. In fact, our slogan is "The Middle of Everywhere" and it's very nearly true. http://www.rollacity.org/ http://www.rollanet.org/
About Our Campus S&T’s 284-acre campus is located in Rolla, MO, a town of 18,000 in the heart of the Ozarks. The university is home to 46 research and academic support centers. We enroll more than 7,200 students, approximately 1700 of which are graduate students. The S&T campus is located within walking distance of a grocery store, downtown shops, and housing.
Fast Facts • 34 Graduate Certificates offered • 28 Master’s Programs offered • 20 PhD programs offered • 11 degrees offered entirely on-line • 175 classes offered on-line • 54% international students • 999 students from 50 countries
Graduate Enrollment • 1702 graduate students • 1139 on campus students from 50 countries • USA 1090 • India 286 • China 127 • MS 913 • PhD 475 • CT 294
Rankings • A top-20 program for “best career/job placement” (The Princeton Review, 2008) • Career Fair with over 300 employers represented • No. 5 specialized STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) research university in the USA as rated by Academic Analytics, LLC, 2008 • S&T is one of American’s 30 safest college campuses (Reader’s Digest 2008)
12 State of the Art Interdisciplinary Research Centers Center for Bone and Tissue Repair and Regeneration (CBTRR) Center for Environmental Science and Technology (CEST) Center for Excellence for Aerospace Particulate Emissions Reduction Research (CEAPERR) Center for Infrastructure Engineering Studies (CIES) Energy Research & Development (RERDC) Environmental Research Center for Emerging Contaminants (ERC) Intelligent Systems Center (ISC) Materials Research Center (MRC) Missouri Transportation Institute (MTI) Rock Mechanics and Explosives Research Center (RMERC) Technology Transfer and Economic Development University Transportation Center (UTC)
Programs Offered Aerospace Engineering (MS/PhD) Applied & Environmental Biology (MS) Applied Math (MS/MST/PhD) Biomaterials (MS) Business Administration (MBA) Ceramic Engineering (MS/PhD) Chemical Engineering (MS/PhD/DE) Chemistry (MS/PhD) Civil Engineering (MS/PhD) Computer Engineering (MS/PhD/DE) Computer Science (MS/PhD) Electrical Engineering (MS/PhD/DE) Engineering Management (MS/PhD) Environmental Engineering (MS/PhD) Geological Engineering (MS/ME/PhD/DE) Geology and Geophysics (MS/PhD) Information Science & Technology (MS) Manufacturing Engineering (MS/ME) Math/Statistics (MS/PhD) Mechanical Engineering (MS/PhD) Materials Science & Engineering (MS/PhD) Metallurgical Engineering (MS/PhD) Mining Engineering (MS/ME/PhD/DE) Nuclear Engineering (MS/PhD/DE) Petroleum Engineering (MS/PhD/DE) Physics (MS/PhD) Systems Engineering (MS/PhD) Technical Communication (MS/MA)