Public · Saint Louis, MO
University of Missouri-St Louis
5,027 full-time students in fall 2024 and college-controlled housing for 421: about 8.4 beds for every 100 full-time students. The other 4,606 live somewhere the college doesn't control. That is the outer edge of the private market, before you take out commuters and students living with family.
Enrollment
Of 14,736 students enrolled in fall 2024, 12,317 were undergraduates and 2,419 graduate students. 17% studied exclusively online, students who don't need a bed near campus. Headcount fell by 64 from fall 2023 (−0.4%).
Housing the college controls
IPEDS counts 421 beds of institutionally controlled housing for 2024-25. That figure is the school's own capacity, on or off campus, so it includes halls the college leases or manages but not private buildings that simply market to students. Capacity shrank by 294 beds from the year before (715 in 2023-24).
What students pay
The typical 2024-25 housing charge for a student sharing a room was $7,782 for the academic year, roughly $865 a month spread over nine months. Food added $4,996. For aid purposes the school budgets $13,502 for food and housing on campus and $14,252 for a student living off campus away from family, $750 more.
Those are the college's own figures. Private by-the-bed rents near campus can sit well above or below them, so check current asking rents before you underwrite a project.
How lenders read a campus like this
Most students here aren't full-time, so the campus misses the "majority full-time" test that comes with the 10,000-student minimum in Fannie Mae's Multifamily Guide for Dedicated Student Housing (Part III, Chapter 1, section 103.01). Freddie Mac has no stated enrollment floor, but its own product summary says most of its student housing loans are at schools with 15,000 or more students. Banks, debt funds and conventional multifamily programs are the likelier lenders here.
To size a specific property, use the student housing loan sizer. It works by the bed and shows which constraint sets the loan.
Among the 14 Missouri campuses on this site, University of Missouri-St Louis ranks number 8 by full-time students beyond college housing. See the Missouri table.
Other campuses in Saint Louis
- Saint Louis University: 12,734 full-time, 4,005 beds
- Webster University: 4,145 full-time, 825 beds
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Total enrollment, fall 2024 | 14,736 |
| Total enrollment, fall 2023 | 14,800 |
| Full-time students | 5,027 |
| Undergraduates (full-time) | 12,317 (4,222) |
| Graduate students | 2,419 |
| Exclusively online | 17% |
| College-controlled housing capacity, 2024-25 | 421 |
| Capacity, 2023-24 | 715 |
| Beds per 100 full-time students | 8.4 |
| Typical housing charge, academic year | $7,782 |
| Typical food charge, academic year | $4,996 |
| Aid budget, food and housing on campus | $13,502 |
| Aid budget, food and housing off campus | $14,252 |
| All first-time, full-time students required to live in college housing | No |
| Combined food and housing charge (if not split) | not reported |
IPEDS unit ID 178420. St. Louis County. School website. Figures are as the institution reported them to the National Center for Education Statistics. The live-on question asks whether every first-time, full-time student must live in college housing; a school with exemptions or a later-year requirement can answer no. How this data is built.