Missouri State University

Missouri State University is a public university in Springfield, Missouri. It opened in 1905 as the Fourth District Normal School, later operated as Southwest Missouri State University, and took the Missouri State name in 2005. Its statewide mission in public affairs, adopted in 1995, is the structural fact that runs through undergraduate and graduate curricula. Springfield is Missouri's third-largest city, in the Ozarks.

Academic units include colleges of business, education, health and human services, arts and letters, natural and applied sciences, and the William H. Darr College of Agriculture, plus a graduate college. The university is known for teacher education, health professions, business, and public affairs. Facilities include health-science clinics and laboratories on the Springfield campus, with additional sites such as Mountain Grove for agriculture.

Enrollment is about 23,000 students, most of them undergraduates, with several thousand in graduate and professional programs and an international minority from many countries. Instructional faculty number about a thousand. Notable alumni include actor John Goodman and US senator Roy Blunt.

Graduate awards include master's degrees, education specialist credentials, and professional doctorates in nursing, audiology, and education, alongside selected research doctorates. Coursework-heavy professional programs sit beside thesis options. The calendar is the US semester system. Assistantships and clinical placements support many graduate students. Springfield offers an urban campus and housing in a mid-size Ozarks city.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, Missouri State University lists 1 doctoral program, in health & medical sciences.