University of Missouri-Columbia Profile
The University of Missouri-Columbia (Mizzou, or MU) is a top public research university located in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is designated as comprehensive doctoral with medical/veterinary by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
The College of Education was selected because of its Educational Leadership Statewide Cooperative EdD, program to participate in the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate. It is one of 22 institutions from across the U.S. selected to participate.
Ranking Profile:
- University of Missouri-Columbia is rated 94th among Tier 1 National Universities (USNWR 2011).
- The MU College of Education is consistently ranked among the top colleges of education in the country. In 2010, the College of Education was ranked 45th among 278 universities offering doctoral degrees according to U.S. News and World Report.
- Ranked 401-450th in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010).
- Ranked 201-300th globally in the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2010.
- The Library and Information Studies program in the School of Information Science & Learning Technologies was ranked 29th in the nation (USNWR 2009).
- The University of Missouri College of Business' Crosby MBA program had the third highest ranking among MBA programs at Big 12 universities. Among public universities, MU was ranked 19th in the combined national and regional lists by The Wall Street Journal (2007).
- The University of Missouri-Columbia was included in the list of colleges and universities with outstanding examples of academic programs that lead to student success (2004 edition of USNWR “America’s Best Colleges” guide). MU is ranked at No. 32 with Michigan State University and Virginia Tech in the top 50 public national universities-doctoral list and is ranked 73rd on the list of both public and private national universities-doctoral.
The College of Education was selected because of its Educational Leadership Statewide Cooperative EdD, program to participate in the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate. It is one of 22 institutions from across the U.S. selected to participate.
Ranking Profile:
- University of Missouri-Columbia is rated 94th among Tier 1 National Universities (USNWR 2011).
- The MU College of Education is consistently ranked among the top colleges of education in the country. In 2010, the College of Education was ranked 45th among 278 universities offering doctoral degrees according to U.S. News and World Report.
- Ranked 401-450th in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010).
- Ranked 201-300th globally in the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2010.
- The Library and Information Studies program in the School of Information Science & Learning Technologies was ranked 29th in the nation (USNWR 2009).
- The University of Missouri College of Business' Crosby MBA program had the third highest ranking among MBA programs at Big 12 universities. Among public universities, MU was ranked 19th in the combined national and regional lists by The Wall Street Journal (2007).
- The University of Missouri-Columbia was included in the list of colleges and universities with outstanding examples of academic programs that lead to student success (2004 edition of USNWR “America’s Best Colleges” guide). MU is ranked at No. 32 with Michigan State University and Virginia Tech in the top 50 public national universities-doctoral list and is ranked 73rd on the list of both public and private national universities-doctoral.
