Mizzou's Top 10
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- For 10 consecutive years, the University of Missouri has welcomed a record-breaking enrollment with large increases in ethnically diverse, high-ability, out-of-state and low-income students. Current enrollment is 33,805.
- Based on quality of teaching, research and scholarship, MU is one of only 34 public U.S. universities invited to membership in the prestigious Association of American Universities (AAU).
- MU is a $2 billion enterprise that accounts for 72 percent of the research dollars flowing to Missouri public universities, generating new knowledge and jobs to power the state and national economies.
- MU is one of only five universities nationwide with law, medicine, veterinary medicine and a nuclear research reactor on one campus.
- The Mizzou Advantage program reflects MU’s major strengths and collaborative culture in four interdisciplinary areas: Food for the Future, Sustainable Energy, Media of the Future and One Health/One Medicine.
- MU is a national leader in confronting the challenges of autism and other developmental conditions through integrated research, training and services at the Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, the most comprehensive autism center in Missouri.
- In 2011, Dr. James Birchler was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and Dr. Michael LeFevre to the Institute of Medicine, joining the world’s most distinguished scientists, physicians and researchers. They are two of six MU faculty members in the National Academies.
- For decades, Mizzou plant scientists have paved the way for today’s sustainable agriculture and plant genomics. MU ranks third in the U.S. in funding from National Science Foundation plant research programs, employs more than 100 plant scientists and is a founding partner of the Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis.
- Mizzou Athletics ranked No. 3 in The Daily Beast’s 2011 list of top college sports programs that excel academically and had a record 81 percent Graduation Success Rate for 2010-11. Missouri football had five NFL first-round draft picks in the past three years; only one other program nationwide had more.
- Since 2007, Columbia has been listed in the top 10 “Best Small Places for Business and Careers” published annually by Forbes, one of many national media that consistently rank CoMo at the pinnacle of U.S. cities for an excellent quality of life.
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