Truman State University is Missouri's only public liberal arts and sciences university.
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Consistently ranked among the nation's best colleges in publications such as U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, and Kiplinger's, Truman State University offers 48 undergraduate majors, 58 minors, 8 graduate programs and 2 graduate certificate programs, and several pre-professional areas of study.
As Missouri's only highly selective public liberal arts and sciences university, Truman is best known for offering exceptionally high-quality academic programs and an amazing educational value.
Truman State University is here to open opportunity, promote access and social mobility, foster excellence, recognize merit, and do all things that urge our students to make themselves productive, free and equal.
Our destination is unmoving – to offer an exemplary and affordable public residential education to well-prepared students that is grounded in the liberal arts and sciences.
The mission of Truman State University is to offer an exemplary undergraduate education to well-prepared students, grounded in the liberal arts and sciences, in the context of a public institution of higher education. To that end, the University offers affordable undergraduate studies in the traditional arts and sciences as well as selected pre-professional, professional, and master's level programs that grow naturally out of the philosophy, values, content, and desired outcomes of a liberal arts education.
