| Location: | Midwest |
| Setting: | Mid-size City Setting |
| Type: | Private |
| Size: | Large (5,000 to 10,000 Undergrad) |
| Mascot: | Panthers |
Drury is an independent university, church-related, grounded in the liberal arts tradition and committed to personalized education in a community of scholars who value the arts of teaching and learning.
Education at Drury seeks:
.to cultivate spiritual sensibilities and imaginative faculties as well as ethical insight and critical thought.
.to foster the integration of theoretical and practical knowledge; and
.to liberate persons to particpate responsibly in and contribute to life in a global community.
Drury University is a private liberal arts college in Springfield, Missouri. The university enrolls about 1,700 undergraduates, 3,000 adult part-time undergraduates and 400 graduate students in five master's programs. In total, its enrollment numbers at about 5,079 students.
Drury was founded as Springfield College in 1873 by Congregationalist church missionaries in the mold of other Congregationalist universities such as Dartmouth College and Yale University. Rev. Nathan Morrison, Samuel Drury, and James and Charles Harwood provided the school's initial endowment and organization; Samuel Drury's gift was the largest of the group and the school was soon renamed in honor of Drury's recently deceased son.
The early curriculum emphasized educational, religious and musical strengths. Students came to the new college from a wide area, including the Indian Territories of Oklahoma. The first graduating class included four women.
When classes began in 1873, they were held in a single building on a campus occupying less than 1½ acres. Twenty-five years later the 40 acre campus included Stone Chapel, the President’s House and three academic buildings. Today, the university occupies a campus, including the original historic buildings.
Drury College became Drury University on January 1, 2000. In addition to the academic programs of the early years, Drury students today study in the Breech School of Business Administration, the Hammons School of Architecture, and the departments of education, mathematics and sciences, social sciences, exercise and sport science. The list of majors and minors at Drury has also grown and now includes high tech studies in computer science, computer information systems and e-commerce.
The College of Graduate and Continuing Studies serves nearly three thousand students in Springfield and at nine branch campuses.
===Religious affiliations=== Since its founding, Drury has been affiliated with the Congregationalist church and its successor, the United Church of Christ. It has also been affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) since the founding of the Drury School of Religion in 1909. The religious foundation of the university still manifests itself in a faith community on campus.
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| Percent of Students International: | 2% |
| On-Campus Housing Available: | Yes |
| Percent of Students Living On-Campus: | 25% |
| Freshman Students Required to Live on Campus: | Yes |
| Member of: | NAA, NCAA |
| Sports Include: |
Basketball (Great Lakes Valley Conference) Track (Great Lakes Valley Conference) |
| Tuition & Fees (undergraduate) | Expenses | ||
Published Tuition and Fees: |
$ 14,669 | ||
Average Tuition for Full-Time Undergrads: |
$ 14,348 | ||
Required Fees for Full-Time Undergrads: |
$ 321 | ||
| Financial Aid | Avg. Amount Received | % of Students Receiving Aid | |
Federal Grants: |
$ 2,824 | 51% | |
State and Local Grants: |
$ 1,652 | 40% | |
Institutional Grants: |
$ 3,289 | 62% | |
Student Loans: |
$ 2,625 | 35% | |
Any Aid: |
77% |
| Acceptance Rate: | 47% (Highly Selective) |
| Test Scores | |
| SAT Scores: | |
| % of Students Submitting SAT Scores: | 16% |
| Bottom 25th Percentile: | Verbal: 530, Math: 522 |
| Top 75th Percentile: | Verbal: 640, Math: 650 |
| ACT Scores: | |
| % of Students Submitting ACT Scores: | 93% |
| Bottom 25th Percentile: | Composite: 23, Verbal: 22, Math: 22 |
| Top 75th Percentile: | Composite: 28, Verbal: 30, Math: 27 |
| Application Fee: | $ 25.00 |
| Formal Demonstration of Competencies: | Not Required |
| High School Diploma or Equivalent: | Required |
| High School GPA: | Required |
| High School Rank: | Required |
| High School Record: | Required |
| Recommendations: | Required |
| TOEFL: | Required |
| Test Scores: | Required |
