•Located in the State of Missouri, Rolla is one of the best small towns in the U.S. and the number one small town in Missouri.
•Rolla is the home of several high-technology businesses and Federal agencies, including the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Forest Service.
•The University of Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy (MSM) was founded in 1870. It became the University of Missouri-Rolla in 1964. And it changed its name from University of Missouri Rolla to Missouri University of Science & Technology in 2008
•It is the first technological institution west of the Mississippi and one of the first in the nation. Its campus is spread over 284 acres.
•For over 135 years Missouri S&T has been known internationally as a leading technological research university focused on academics, hands-on learning, undergraduate research and innovative programming.
•Missouri University of Science & Technology is one of the nation's top graduate engineering schools listed in U.S. News and World Report's latest rankings of graduate schools.
•One of “America’s Best Value Colleges” by The Princeton Review, 2004.
•A top 25 entrepreneurial campus as ranked by Forbes.com’s “ America’s Most Entrepreneurial Campuses,” October 2004.
•The University is a thriving academic community with highly qualified and experienced staff and excellent teaching resources. 99% of full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty have Ph.D.s or the highest degree awarded in their field.
•The International student community is drawn from over fifty-five countries.
•At Missouri S&T the Student to faculty ratio is 14:1.