The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) is the academic core of the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Through academic programs offered on and off campus, CAS educates diverse, talented, traditional and nontraditional students who will supply knowledge, skills, and intellectual leadership in both the private and public sectors.
Active engagement in research and scholarship enables college faculty in every department to advance knowledge and to impart research methods and results directly in their classroom teaching. In addition to providing extensive opportunities in general education and undergraduate and graduate degree programs, the college emphasizes multi-disciplinary programs in life and environmental sciences as well as metropolitan and regional studies.
The CAS provides over 4,000 undergraduate and 800 graduate students with a wide range of accredited baccalaureate, master's, doctoral degrees and multi-disciplinary certificates offered through 14 departments, as well as the School of Social Work.