Academic Year 2024–2025
Rates are assessed each semester.
Your program's tuition rate does not include program fees, including the Student Life fee, graduate and professional program fees or optional charges, such as housing, bookstore and parking. Learn more about cost of attendance at Financial Aid and Scholarships.
We offer tuition discounts based on residency, military service and age.
- Legal residents of these counties in Kansas are eligible for the same rate as Missouri residents through the Graduate Metro Rate: Atchison, Douglas, Franklin, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Leavenworth, Miami, Osage, Shawnee and Wyandotte. Professional programs in dentistry, law, medicine and pharmacy do not qualify for the Graduate Metro Rate.
- Through the Midwest Student Exchange Program (MSEP), UMKC agrees to charge students no more than 150% of the in-state resident tuition rate for select graduate programs. Professional programs in dentistry, law, pharmacy and certain programs in medicine do not qualify for the MSEP rate.
Graduate Program Tuition Rates
Per credit hour:
- Missouri resident and Graduate Metro Rate: $512.40
- Midwest Student Exchange Program: $768.60
- Nonresident: $1,286.25
Professional Program Tuition Rates
Dentistry
Doctor of Dental Surgery
Flat rate 16 hours:
- Missouri resident: $21,675.00
- Nonresident: $42,898.00
There is an additional instruction fee for students based on cohort.
Advanced Education in General Dentistry (general dentistry, endodontics, periodontics and orthodontics)
Per credit hour up to 14 hours:
- Missouri resident: $1,427.91
- Nonresident: $2,828.66
These programs are assessed an additional instruction fee.
Advanced Standing Program
Flat rate:
- Missouri resident and nonresident: $41,484.00
Law
J.D. program
Per credit hour:
- Missouri resident: $752.40
- Nonresident: $961.40
LL.M. program
Per credit hour:
- Missouri resident: $913.30
- Nonresident: $1,872.64
MLS online program
Per credit hour:
Medicine
Years 1-2
Flat rate 16 hours:
- Missouri resident: $13,643.70
- Regional (Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Arkansas, Illinois): $20,312.25
- Nonresident: $26,980.80
Years 3-6
Flat rate 18 hours:
- Missouri resident: $16,039.80
- Regional (Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Arkansas, Illinois): $23,889.60
- Nonresident: $31,735.20
Anesthesia
Flat rate 18 hours:
- Missouri resident: $15,296.40
- Nonresident: $18,187.05
Physician assistant
Flat rate 18 hours:
- Missouri resident: $13,795.95
- Nonresident: $16,474.50
Nursing and Health Studies
Per credit hour:
- Online graduate degree programs (regardless of state of residence): $742.35
The clinical, simulation, and online course fees can be found on the Fees page.
Some nursing courses assess fees for equipment and materials.
Pharmacy
Flat rate 15 hours:
- Missouri resident: $15,222.78
- *U.S. citizen or permanent resident not residing in Missouri: $15,222.78
- International resident: $33,132.42
*During Fall and Spring semesters, newly enrolled nonresident School of Pharmacy students who are a U.S. citizen or permanent resident receive a renewable Pharmacy Dean's nonresident award, which provides a 100% reduction in the differential between resident and nonresident tuition.
In the event of a discrepancy between a listed program rate and the rate approved by the UM Board of Curators, the rate approved by the board applies.
