University of Missouri Columbia

[Anonymous]

I live in MO, went to high school in MO, went to grad school for a piece of paper degree at Mizzou, and my kids went to public K-12 in MO. Unless you are majoring in journalism or live in MO, I cannot understand why you would attend Mizzou. MO S&T quite good for engineering, but Mizzou...as with any school you can get a decent education but there is significant institutional racism and a party culture that means your kid will need to be quite mature to get to the good parts.

Definitely not a school that I would target from out of state. I am very happy that my kids have options other than Mizzou, even knowing that they would likely qualify for full rides.

[Anonymous]

Look at University of MN. Pretty affordable for out of state and they give merit.

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Anonymous wrote:Look at University of MN. Pretty affordable for out of state and they give merit.

Minnesota costs $51,000 unfortunately

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I know people who attended U of M at C and doing quite well. If you can get a scholarship, it should be on your list.

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Look at the University of Kansas.

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U New Mexico gives big OOS merit aid and is in Albuquerque.

[Anonymous]

Tennessee is another good choice. Great aid money for stats and excellent programs especially in engineering and logistics and transportation (a huge growing field).

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Look at University of MN. Pretty affordable for out of state and they give merit.

Minnesota costs $51,000 unfortunately

Also very tough to get into.

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Univ of New Hampshire has a major in homeland security - it checks other boxes on your list too.

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Anonymous wrote:Hi. I’m a rising senior researching schools that are preferably OOS(I live in NY state) and that are big public schools with good school spirit and sense of community. Missouri caught my attention because of how affordable it is for OOS, 41,000 total cost but has automatic scholarships to even further lower the cost. I’ve read on niche and other sites about the school but was wondering if anyone has any opinions, experiences, or thoughts about it, I know it’s not a “top” school in the mind of many people on here, hence the fact that there have been no threads about Mizzou. For reference, I want to go into a government agencies, particularly with security and intelligence later on. I know their journalism school is very highly ranked but I don’t know if I want that to be my major especially since I will need to have computer experience for jobs in security and intelligence.

Missouri is a perfectly fine institution. If you’re looking for colleges with good merit aid I’d also look into Arizona, Alabama, South Carolina, WVU etc. They give really good aid for high stats kids.

I’m a parent age person from Missouri. I think of Arizona State and the University of Arizona as being clearly better than Mizzou, and Alabama and South Carolina as being at about the same level.

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Anonymous wrote:Univ of New Hampshire has a major in homeland security - it checks other boxes on your list too.

Do people with those majors get jobs? I'd think you'd be better off going either military, computers, or having a heavy foreign language focus.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, if you'd said you wanted to work in journalism, I would definitely encourage you to consider Missouri because of its J School (and excellent career placement in that field) and the academic scholarships you reference of OOS kids.

But since journalism is not your passion, I'd have to agree with the other posters who are down on it generally. Mizzou is not going to help on your resume, given your career goals.

How is Mizzou not going to help on my resume? I thought the old saying was that it’s what you do in college, not where you got your degree from. Also it’s elitist to say certain colleges won’t look good on a resume. It’s not my fault that I don’t have very wealthy parents who can pay for the best school I can get into. Most of us regular people look for finances first when choosing a college, not the ranking or one that would boost a resume. [/quote

I’m the person who grew up in Missouri and would choose Arizona State, if I had a choice. The solution: Go to Mizzou and double major in poli sci or something else public poli sci related. People will assume you chose Mizzou for the journalism school. You’ll probably end up hanging out with other moderate and liberal people, but you’ll be able to communicate with conservative people, which is good. If you’re careful and go undercover as a journalism person for a few years, you may have a great excuse not to reveal your politics. Just be scrupulously neutral and take good notes.

- Missouri as a state may be red, but Kansas City and St. Louis are blue, and I’m sure the merit aid is attracting a wide variety of great out-of-state students.

- If the general quality of the student body is weak, the offset is that you’ll stand out more.

- Maybe you could get an internship trying to turn a purple House seat blue, and maybe that would be more fun than keeping a blue seat blue.

[Anonymous]

Yikes! It pains me to defend Mizzou a little bit here as an Illini, but people are using a lot of hyperbolic language in their critiques on this thread.

It’s a perfectly fine flagship school with journalism being the standout program. The college town is pretty nice and they have good school spirit. In recent years, Mizzou has actually drawn as many or more OOS Chicago area students as the nearby Big Ten universities (e.g. Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana, Purdue) since they have a lot of merit aid plus fairly lenient standards to qualify for in-state residency. So, it’s far from being just Missouri in-state students there. (Granted, I doubt that there are many East Coast students.)

The academic differences between Mizzou, Arizona and South Carolina are going to be pretty negligible. It’s a step up from West Virginia for sure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tennessee is another good choice. Great aid money for stats and excellent programs especially in engineering and logistics and transportation (a huge growing field).

But is it better than Missouri, and does it have good merit aid?