Hey, I'm Levon
for YOUniversity TV

and we're at
the University of Missouri.

You know Truman, I'm very glad
you could make it today.

See Truman here is very busy,

he makes over 35
appearances a month,

both at Mizzou
and in the community.

Truman, now that you're here,
let's go on a tour.

MU is located in
Columbia, Missouri

just south of the historic
downtown district.

Two hours from St. Louis,
and Kansas City,

and six hours from Chicago.

Mizzou's botanic gardens
house more than 5,400 trees

and 650 varieties of plants.

They accent the campus with
colorful and fragrant flowers

in the springtime and vibrant
leaves in the fall.

And don't miss the 600 year old
Chinese Stone Lions,

or Thomas Jefferson's
original tombstone.

Missouri's 1,358 acre campus

not only has 20
individual gardens

but two sides of campus known
as "red and white campuses."

The red brick buildings
are the oldest on campus

and the white limestone
buildings went up

as the University expanded.

Several of these buildings
are even listed

on the National Register
of Historic places.

The main campus is book ended
by Greek life housing.

MU is one of the nations
largest Greek systems

including 50 national social
fraternities and sororities.

Many have the privilege
of calling these

multi-million dollar historic
buildings home sweet home.

Academic Hall,
constructed in 1841

was the University of
Missouri's first building.

The six Ionic columns are all
that remains of the Hall

which was destroyed
by a fire in 1892.

They remain to honor the many
generations of students

and faculty who have
passed under their shadow.

Freshman Tiger Walk
is really cool,

it's kind of like new students

get accepted into
the University.

What they do is
everybody lines up

on the North side
of our columns

and walks through
to the south side

and all of the community
comes out,

a lot of older students,
a lot of the faculty and staff

and everyone cheers and hollers
for you and celebrates,

it's a lot of fun.

Mizzou has just
over 28,000 students,

that is total enrollment.

We have students from every
state in the United States,

every county in Missouri,

and about 110 countries
around the world.

Forty-eight percent of the
student body are men,

and fifty-two percent are women.

We have selective admissions
here at the University;

we look at a combination of

a student's standardized test
score, either the ACT or SAT,

along with their class rank
and their high school GPA.

And then of course
the core classes

that they take
in high school.

Annual tuition and fees

for Missouri residents
is $8,500,

and about $19,000
for non-residents per year.

Annual room and board
fees are $8,000

while books average
an additional cost of

a thousand dollars per
academic year.

Mizzou offers more than 280
undergraduate degree programs

as well as hundreds of graduate
and professional programs.

We are one of only six
institutions in the country

that have a med school,
a law school, and a vet school

all on one campus.

Journalism of course is
typically ranked by many

of the professionals in
the journalistic world

as one of the number one
schools in the nation.

We're the only school in
the country that the FCC allows

to own and operate a network
commercial television station.

We own our own NBC station

and the students actually
do the telecasting,

they do the anchoring,
they do the stories.

That's kind of a really
cool experience

and you get all that great
hands on stuff that

eventually goes out and serves
the community of Columbia.

Well University of Missouri
has been ranked by

the National Science
Foundation to be

one of the top universities
for undergraduate research

so we specialize
in having research

opportunities specifically
for undergraduates.

For instance the project that we
did up in northern Thailand,

US students as well as Thai
students, in addition to getting

the research experience
the students

also get the cultural
exchange experience,

we've discovered
over 60 new species

of aquatic heteroptera alone.

Really interesting
and very rewarding.

MU has one of the Nation's best
and oldest honors colleges

often referred to as a small
liberal arts college

within a large state university.

Through the honors college
in the Journalism School,

I'm getting the small liberal
arts education,

the hands on academic
experiences but at

the same time I have all
the Big 12 Athletics

and big college
university amenities

kind of at my fingertips.

MU has over 1,900 faculty
members, over 90 percent

have their terminal
degree, 749 are tenured,

and 326 are on
the tenure track.

It's no wonder so many
professors at Mizzou

have won prestigious awards,
like the Fulbright Scholars,

the Pulitzer, National Science
Foundation Career Award,

and distinguished national
awards in music composition.

The professors at Mizzou,
they are experts in their field

but at the same time
they're very accessible

and usually extremely
personable people.

We really want to get
to know students,

we want to help them
develop once they're here

and help them in their
journey because this

is such a great time of
discovery and exploration

and we enjoy being
a part of that and that's

why we all do what we do.

The Missouri Tigers are members
of the Big 12 Conference

and Mizzou is the only
school in the state to have

all its sports teams fall
in the NCAA Division I.

Mizzou offers over
20 residence halls

with both community
and suite style living.

Freshmen are able
to live in every hall

and are required to
live on campus.

MU has a nationally recognized
program called "Fix" that groups

new students based
on interest or major.

The people that I live with on
my floor, we all take the same

classes together and that really
helped out because, you know,

all your friends have tests
on the same days.

If you're in a huge lecture hall

you already know 12
or 15 people in there.

With more than 500
organizations,

there's more for everyone
to do at Mizzou,

be a part of anything you want.

If you graduate from
the University of Missouri

you'll walk along with fellow
alumni Chris Cooper,

Sheryl Crow and John Anderson.

Located on campus,

students can enjoy the longtime
favorite Tiger Stripe,

Mizzou's black and gold
signature ice cream.

This may look like every other
old ice cream shop but it's not.

Behind the cheery storefront
is an integrated research,

learning and service
oriented lab.

So if you're looking for
a nationally competitive,

global university
that will provide

a rich learning environment
and offer excellent

one of a kind education check
out the University of Missouri.

Thanks for checking in with us
at the University of Missouri.

For YOUniversity TV,
he's Truman and I'm Levon,

and we'll see you next time.