The US News college rankings are out. I've posted several other rankings on here over the past couple of weeks, but these are the most well known and widely cited of the college rankings.
The Good News: After falling over 50 spots in these rankings since 20 years ago, Mizzou continues what is now a 3 year streak of moving up in these rankings. Mizzou is up a few spots compared to last year, and about up 25 spots since we bottomed out a few years ago. So we're moving in the right direction.
The Bad News: We're still tied with kansas. Years ago we were about 10 spots ahead of kansas, then we fell behind them, then we caught up, and for the past couple of years we've been tied with them. I'd like to see us move out ahead of them again. Hopefully next year it'll happen.
In the research rankings I posted earlier, Mizzou is currently ranked around 80, and I think with the various changes and investments we've made, including the new NextGen Precision Health Research Institute, we'll see that ranking go up into the 60s or better over the next 5 or so years. Which is great. I feel really good about that.
With this ranking I'm less sure. We dropped really far and were in pretty disastrous shape as of a few years ago. Now it's not so disastrous but I'd really like to see us at least get back into the 90s in these rankings. Right now we're in the 120s with kansas, Iowa State, Kentucky, and Oklahoma. I don't think it's unreasonable for us to be in the 90s with Auburn, Colorado, Utah, and Oregon. That seems like where we need to be to feel good about this ranking. Hopefully we'll get up there over the next several years. We can do it if we keep trying. Being ranked in the 60s in research and 90s in the US News rankings would mean Mizzou is a solidly ranked university all around, and top six out of sixteen the SEC in both rankings. I think it's a reasonable goal we can get to by 2030 or sooner.
Here are the rankings by conference.
SEC
14. Vanderbilt
28. Florida
38 Texas
48. Georgia
68. Texas A&M
99. Auburn
103. Tennessee
117. South Carolina
122. Missouri
127. Kentucky
127. Oklahoma
148. Alabama
148. Mississippi
162. Arkansas
172. LSU
196. Mississippi State
Big 12
75. Baylor
79. BYU
83. TCU
122. Iowa State
122. kansas
148. UCF
148. Cincinnati
162. Kansas State
179. Houston
187. Oklahoma State
213. Texas Tech
249. West Virginia
Big Ten
9. Northwestern
23. Michigan
42. Wisconsin
47. Illinois
49. Ohio State
49. Purdue
59. Maryland
63. Penn State
63. Rutgers
68. Indiana
68. Minnesota
83. Michigan State
83. Iowa
136. Nebraska
Pac 12
6. Stanford
20. UCLA
22. Cal
27. USC
59. Washington
99. Colorado
99. Oregon
99. Utah
103. Arizona
117. Arizona State
162. Oregon State
179. Washington State
ACC
9. Duke
25. Virginia
28. UNC
28. Wake Forest
36. Boston College
38. Georgia Tech
55. Florida State
55. Miami
59. Syracuse
59. Pitt
75. Clemson
75. Virginia Tech
79. NC State
187. Louisville
The Good News: After falling over 50 spots in these rankings since 20 years ago, Mizzou continues what is now a 3 year streak of moving up in these rankings. Mizzou is up a few spots compared to last year, and about up 25 spots since we bottomed out a few years ago. So we're moving in the right direction.
The Bad News: We're still tied with kansas. Years ago we were about 10 spots ahead of kansas, then we fell behind them, then we caught up, and for the past couple of years we've been tied with them. I'd like to see us move out ahead of them again. Hopefully next year it'll happen.
In the research rankings I posted earlier, Mizzou is currently ranked around 80, and I think with the various changes and investments we've made, including the new NextGen Precision Health Research Institute, we'll see that ranking go up into the 60s or better over the next 5 or so years. Which is great. I feel really good about that.
With this ranking I'm less sure. We dropped really far and were in pretty disastrous shape as of a few years ago. Now it's not so disastrous but I'd really like to see us at least get back into the 90s in these rankings. Right now we're in the 120s with kansas, Iowa State, Kentucky, and Oklahoma. I don't think it's unreasonable for us to be in the 90s with Auburn, Colorado, Utah, and Oregon. That seems like where we need to be to feel good about this ranking. Hopefully we'll get up there over the next several years. We can do it if we keep trying. Being ranked in the 60s in research and 90s in the US News rankings would mean Mizzou is a solidly ranked university all around, and top six out of sixteen the SEC in both rankings. I think it's a reasonable goal we can get to by 2030 or sooner.
Here are the rankings by conference.
SEC
14. Vanderbilt
28. Florida
38 Texas
48. Georgia
68. Texas A&M
99. Auburn
103. Tennessee
117. South Carolina
122. Missouri
127. Kentucky
127. Oklahoma
148. Alabama
148. Mississippi
162. Arkansas
172. LSU
196. Mississippi State
Big 12
75. Baylor
79. BYU
83. TCU
122. Iowa State
122. kansas
148. UCF
148. Cincinnati
162. Kansas State
179. Houston
187. Oklahoma State
213. Texas Tech
249. West Virginia
Big Ten
9. Northwestern
23. Michigan
42. Wisconsin
47. Illinois
49. Ohio State
49. Purdue
59. Maryland
63. Penn State
63. Rutgers
68. Indiana
68. Minnesota
83. Michigan State
83. Iowa
136. Nebraska
Pac 12
6. Stanford
20. UCLA
22. Cal
27. USC
59. Washington
99. Colorado
99. Oregon
99. Utah
103. Arizona
117. Arizona State
162. Oregon State
179. Washington State
ACC
9. Duke
25. Virginia
28. UNC
28. Wake Forest
36. Boston College
38. Georgia Tech
55. Florida State
55. Miami
59. Syracuse
59. Pitt
75. Clemson
75. Virginia Tech
79. NC State
187. Louisville
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