https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf22311/assets/data-tables/tables/nsf22311-tab020.pdf
I've talked about this a bunch on here. The new research rankings just came out. Mizzou moved up from #89 to #78, jumping over a few SEC schools in the process. President Choi has made this a top priority. This improvement is before the new $220M NextGen Health Research Center opened, and before the start of the $1.5B Mizzou Forward Campaign. I think, conservatively, with those two things going on, we'll see these numbers go up by at least $100M per year and perhaps as much as $200M per year. A $100M increase would move us up to #62 and a $200M increase would move us up to #53. I fully expect us to be somewhere in that range in the next few years. So we'll probably end up above Oklahoma and Kentucky and somewhere near Georgia. So we should be top 5 or 6 out of 16. We'll also probably be ranked similarly to schools like Iowa, Colorado, Virginia Tech, and NC State.
Here are the SEC rankings:
14. Texas A&M
26. Florida
31. Vanderbilt
34. Texas
56. Georgia
63. Kentucky
72. Oklahoma
78. Missouri
82. Tennessee
86. LSU
88. Mississippi State
100. Auburn
112. South Carolina
133. Arkansas
151. Mississippi
166. Alabama
As we are playing Alabama today in basketball I'd like to note that even though they're way better than us at the revenue sports, Mizzou is a much, much stronger research institution than Alabama.
Here are the other major conferences for comparison:
Big Ten
2. Michigan
8. Wisconsin
16. Maryland
20. Minnesota
22. Penn State
24. Ohio State
29. Northwestern
37. Indiana
38. Michigan State
39. Illinois
40. Rutgers
41. Purdue
52. Iowa
81. Nebraska
Pac 12
5. Washington
7. UCLA
10. Stanford
27. USC
30. Cal Berkeley
35. Arizona
43. Arizona State
47. Utah
54. Colorado
76. Washington State
95. Oregon State
154. Oregon
ACC
11. Duke
13. UNC
15. Pitt
18. Georgia Tech
44. Virginia
49. Virginia Tech
51. NC State
69. Miami
75. Florida State
102. Wake Forest
107. Clemson
123. Louisville
143. Syracuse
186. Boston College
Big 12
53. Cincinatti
70. kansas
71. Iowa State
105. UCF
115. K-State
120. Houston
122. Texas Tech
126. West Virginia
127. Oklahoma State
223. Baylor
298. TCU
225. BYU
Other comments... As I've said, the top half of the SEC is getting to be very respectable. The bottom half not as much. Also, it's good that we left the Big 12, they're the weakest conference academically at this point and it isn't close.
I've talked about this a bunch on here. The new research rankings just came out. Mizzou moved up from #89 to #78, jumping over a few SEC schools in the process. President Choi has made this a top priority. This improvement is before the new $220M NextGen Health Research Center opened, and before the start of the $1.5B Mizzou Forward Campaign. I think, conservatively, with those two things going on, we'll see these numbers go up by at least $100M per year and perhaps as much as $200M per year. A $100M increase would move us up to #62 and a $200M increase would move us up to #53. I fully expect us to be somewhere in that range in the next few years. So we'll probably end up above Oklahoma and Kentucky and somewhere near Georgia. So we should be top 5 or 6 out of 16. We'll also probably be ranked similarly to schools like Iowa, Colorado, Virginia Tech, and NC State.
Here are the SEC rankings:
14. Texas A&M
26. Florida
31. Vanderbilt
34. Texas
56. Georgia
63. Kentucky
72. Oklahoma
78. Missouri
82. Tennessee
86. LSU
88. Mississippi State
100. Auburn
112. South Carolina
133. Arkansas
151. Mississippi
166. Alabama
As we are playing Alabama today in basketball I'd like to note that even though they're way better than us at the revenue sports, Mizzou is a much, much stronger research institution than Alabama.
Here are the other major conferences for comparison:
Big Ten
2. Michigan
8. Wisconsin
16. Maryland
20. Minnesota
22. Penn State
24. Ohio State
29. Northwestern
37. Indiana
38. Michigan State
39. Illinois
40. Rutgers
41. Purdue
52. Iowa
81. Nebraska
Pac 12
5. Washington
7. UCLA
10. Stanford
27. USC
30. Cal Berkeley
35. Arizona
43. Arizona State
47. Utah
54. Colorado
76. Washington State
95. Oregon State
154. Oregon
ACC
11. Duke
13. UNC
15. Pitt
18. Georgia Tech
44. Virginia
49. Virginia Tech
51. NC State
69. Miami
75. Florida State
102. Wake Forest
107. Clemson
123. Louisville
143. Syracuse
186. Boston College
Big 12
53. Cincinatti
70. kansas
71. Iowa State
105. UCF
115. K-State
120. Houston
122. Texas Tech
126. West Virginia
127. Oklahoma State
223. Baylor
298. TCU
225. BYU
Other comments... As I've said, the top half of the SEC is getting to be very respectable. The bottom half not as much. Also, it's good that we left the Big 12, they're the weakest conference academically at this point and it isn't close.
