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2023 Top Missouri Men's D1 (FBS) Football Schools

1 Colleges

$31,970 Avg Tuition & Fees*

48% Avg 4-Year Grad Rate*

Student athletes have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our Best Colleges for Division I (FBS) Men's Football in Missouri ranking is part of that endeavor.

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Top College in Missouri for D1 (FBS) Men's Football athletes in Missouri

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University of Missouri - Columbia
Columbia, Missouri

#5 in Quality in Missouri

$35,849,783 Team Revenue

973 Academic Progress Rate

Our analysis found University of Missouri - Columbia to be the best school for D1 (FBS) Men’s Football athletes in Missouri in this year’s ranking. Mizzou is a public institution located in Columbia, Missouri. The school has a large population, and it awarded 5,092 bachelor’s degrees in . The FBS Men’s Football team at Mizzou made $35,849,783 in revenue, while incurring $32,808,146 in expenses. Thus, the team actually made $3,041,637, which isn’t bad at all. The team has a respectable academic progress rate of 973. With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. Mizzou also took the #5 spot in our overall quality rankings. Full University of Missouri - Columbia Sports Report

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*Avg Tuition and Fees and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top 1 schools only.

References

The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
Revenue and expense information comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics Data Analysis (EADA) website.
The academic progress rate (APR) of each team was made available by the NCAA.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

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