Welcome

Welcome to our website! This site is designed to familiarize all people, but particularly international visitors, with our University and its high-quality educational programs offered at moderate tuition prices. Please browse the whole site and learn what you can about Southeast. We believe that if you compare us to other schools, you will find our University is a desirable place to pursue your education, your life's dreams and your goals.

International students are not "foreign" to us. We have approximately 250 international students enrolled at Southeast at any given time from over 35 countries. We sponsor F- and J-type visas, and we offer complete on-site advising to prospective non-immigrant students, currently enrolled students, scholars and alumni.

Southeast offers over 100 undergraduate fields of study (majors) which confer Bachelors degrees upon those completing the programs. There are also more than 25 degree programs at the Masters level or higher. Our University is fully accredited and recognized by most ministries of education (MOE).

Southeast Missouri State University is located on a hill overlooking Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and the famous Mississippi River. Acclaimed American author, Mark Twain (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, The Prince and the Pauper, Innocents Abroad), wrote of our University in his Life on the Mississippi (1882).

"There was another college high up on an airy summit -- a bright new edifice, picturesquely and peculiarly towered and pinnacled -- a sort of gigantic casters, with the cruets all complete."

Though the "peculiarly towered" building is gone, it has been replaced by a no-less imposing structure mounted with a copper dome. This dome has been a symbol of high-quality higher education to our region and for many around the world for 125 years.

The city of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, is also picturesque and has a rich history as one of the port towns of the vital Mississippi River. For more information about Cape Girardeau please visit The Southeast Missourian, the city's newspaper.