Ready to shape your future? Applications to Mizzou open Friday

July 29, 2025
Contact: Janese Heavin, heavinj@missouri.edu
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You’ve got big decisions ahead — and even bigger opportunities. At the University of Missouri, we believe college should help you explore them all.

Here, you’ll find the tools, experiences and support to create a future that fits who you are and who you want to become.

Applications for high school seniors open on Aug. 1. Here are five reasons to apply to Mizzou.

You’ll chart your own course.

Don’t just prepare for the future, help shape it. Whether you know exactly what you want to do or you’re still figuring it out, this is a place where curiosity turns into practice and leads to confidence.

Interested in engineering new technologies? Start coding. Want to be a journalist? Work in our professional newsrooms. Curious about research? Join world-renowned faculty in our labs. More of a creative type? Explore the arts, music, filmmaking, textiles and more.

At Mizzou, you learn by doing. It’s called the Missouri Method, a hands-on approach that equips you with practical experience.

After all, we’re from the Show Me State. Show us — and yourself — what you can do.

You’ll find your people.

Mizzou may seem big, but students say it’s easy to find your place. Your community. Your lifelong friends. That’s because we offer more than 600 student organizations and a vibrant campus life full of events and experiences that help connect you with those who share your curiosity, ambitions and goals.

You’ll get to know faculty members, too, as they become mentors and guides throughout your college career.

And when you graduate, you’ll join a global network of more than 362,000 Mizzou alumni who are rooting for your success.

You’ll turn potential into purpose.

At Mizzou, leadership and service aren’t add-ons — they’re part of the experience.

Here, you can help plan one of the oldest and largest homecomings in the country. Become a campus tour guide. Be part of student government. Start your own organization. These activities are launchpads for your future, giving you opportunities to grow, lead and make an impact.

You’ll graduate ready for tomorrow.

Mizzou students are prepared for what comes next. More than 95 percent of Mizzou graduates start careers, continue their education or enter military or other important service roles within six months of earning their degrees. That’s because our graduates have already gained experience not only in classroom and labs but through internships as well, making sure they’re ready to soar.

And it helps that we bring hundreds of top employers to campus every year for career fairs, professional networking events and other occasions where they meet students and recruit their next star employee.