Mo. Rev. Stat. § 172.460: Right to confer degrees.

The College of Agriculture and the University of Missouri-Rolla shall have power to confer degrees suitable to their designs and courses of study; and the University of Missouri-Rolla shall provide courses for, and shall confer the bachelor of science and professional degrees in mining engineering, in metallurgy, in mechanical engineering, in electrical engineering, in chemical engineering, in civil engineering and the degrees of bachelor and master of science in general science.