Distinct by Design

Every aspect of your student journey is deliberately crafted to fulfill your needs, potential, and impact.

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Prove what’s possible with a multidimensional experience designed for you and built for the modern world. Explore your interests, pursue your passions, and prepare for the life you want to live.

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Academics

We combine the foundational principles of the liberal arts and sciences with dynamic experiential learning to develop multidimensional professionals for the modern world.

Our Academic Programs

Student Life

Welcome to a student-first culture and close-knit campus community. This is where you’ll be accepted for who you are and challenged to be the person you want to become.

Life at Truman

Our People

Driven Students, Dynamic Faculty, A World of Opportunity

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Student

Esther Lee

Esther Lee picked Truman because she knew a smaller school would provide more opportunities for growth. She is so involved on campus it's easy to wonder how she finds time for all her interests.

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Faculty

Anton Daughters

Through his research, Anton Daughters sees similar patterns across humanity, from fishing communities in Chile to his adopted home in the Midwest.

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Alumni

Angel McGee

Utilizing a career in professional sports, Angel McGee ('12) is making an impact in her hometown as the manager of community partnerships and events with the Kansas City Royals.

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Our Impact

Ranked the #1 Public School in the Midwest for 28 Consecutive Years

Truman graduates work for the best companies in the world, attend the best graduate schools and earn nearly $10,000 more than the national average.

The Truman Difference

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first-year average class size

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almost 60% graduate with no student loan debt

Concert to Take Place as Part of Earth-a-Poolza

Three different artists will perform as part of Student Government and SAB’s collaborative event, Earth-a-Poolza, April 26 on the quad.

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Truman MAE Student Recognized with Teacher Leaders of Tomorrow Award

Maura Ploesser, a Master of Arts in Education student, recently received a Missouri Teacher Leaders of the Tomorrow Award from the Missouri branch of the Milken Family Foundation.

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Truman Students Learn Their Craft by Preserving a Community’s Language

This semester, students in LING 401, Montagnard Languages, are working with a refugee community located in Greensboro, North Carolina, in an effort to document, preserve and help transmit the native language of the relocated people to younger generations.

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