University of Missouri

The University of Missouri is a public land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri, United States, the largest university in the state and the flagship of the four-campus University of Missouri System, and it is placed in the 721-730 band of the 2027 QS World University Rankings.密苏里大学是一所位于美国密苏里州哥伦比亚市的公立赠地研究型大学，是该州规模最大的大学，也是四校区密苏里大学系统的旗舰校，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 721-730 区间。

Founded in 1839 under the Geyer Act, it was the first public university west of the Mississippi River, and its motto is the Latin Salus populi suprema lex esto, meaning let the welfare of the people be the supreme law.该校依 1839 年《盖尔法案》创办，是密西西比河以西第一所公立大学，其校训为拉丁文「Salus populi suprema lex esto」，意为「人民的福祉是最高的法律」。

It has been a member of the Association of American Universities since 1908, enrolled 31,041 students in 2023 across thirteen academic divisions, and its OpenAlex record lists 139,206 research works and 9,664,298 citations.该校自 1908 年起为美国大学协会成员，2023 年在十三个学术部门共有 31,041 名学生，其 OpenAlex 记录列有研究成果 139,206 项、被引 9,664,298 次。

History

• In 1839 the Missouri Legislature passed the Geyer Act to establish funds for a state university, creating the first public university west of the Mississippi River.1839 年，密苏里州议会通过《盖尔法案》，为设立州立大学拨款，从而创建了密西西比河以西第一所公立大学。

• To secure the university, the citizens of Columbia and Boone County pledged 117,921 dollars in cash and land to beat five other central Missouri counties competing for the site, land owned by James S. Rollins, later called the Father of the University.为争取该校落户，哥伦比亚与布恩县居民共认捐 117,921 美元的现金与土地，战胜了密苏里中部另外五个县；该地块原为詹姆斯·S·罗林斯所有，他后来被称为「大学之父」。

• As the first public university in the Louisiana Purchase territory, the institution was shaped by Thomas Jefferson's ideas about publicly funded education, and it initially admitted only white male students.作为路易斯安那购地范围内第一所公立大学，该校受托马斯·杰斐逊公立教育思想的影响，最初仅招收白人男性学生。

• In 1862 the American Civil War forced the university to close for much of the year, and residents of Columbia formed a Union home guard known as the Fighting Tigers of Columbia.1862 年，美国内战迫使该校在当年大部分时间停课；哥伦比亚居民组建了名为「哥伦比亚战斗虎」的联邦民兵。

• In 1890 the university's newly formed football team took the name the Tigers after that Civil War militia, the origin of the university's present nickname.1890 年，该校新组建的橄榄球队以那支内战民兵之名取名「老虎」，这是该校现今绰号的由来。

• In 1870 the institution was granted land-grant college status under the Morrill Act of 1862, a designation that shaped its agricultural and mechanical teaching and led to the founding of the Missouri School of Mines as an offshoot.1870 年，该校依 1862 年《莫里尔法案》获得赠地学院地位，这一身份塑造了其农业与机械类教学，并促成密苏里矿业学院作为分支成立。

• In 1888 the Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station opened, growing over time to encompass ten centres and research farms around the state.1888 年，密苏里农业试验站成立，此后逐步发展为覆盖全州十个中心与研究农场的体系。

• By 1890 the university encompassed a normal college for teacher training, an engineering college, an arts and science college, a school of agriculture and mechanical arts, a school of medicine and a school of law.到 1890 年，该校已包括培养师资的师范学校、工学院、文理学院、农业与机械艺术学院、医学院与法学院。

• On 9 January 1892 Academic Hall, the institution's central administrative building, burned in a fire that left little standing beyond six stone Ionic columns, and under Governor David R. Francis the university was rebuilt.1892 年 1 月 9 日，该校中央行政楼「学术堂」失火焚毁，除六根石制爱奥尼亚柱外几乎无存；在州长戴维·R·弗朗西斯主持下，该校得以重建。

• Some state residents tried to have the university moved west to Sedalia after the fire, but Columbia rallied support to keep it, and the surviving columns were retained within the Francis Quadrangle.火灾后部分州民曾试图把学校西迁至锡代利亚，哥伦比亚则发动力量将其留下；幸存的石柱被保留在弗朗西斯方庭内。

• Jesse Hall, built in 1895 and named for Richard Jesse, the university president at the time of the fire, stands at the southern end of the quadrangle, and the brick buildings around it gave the area the name Red Campus.1895 年建成、以火灾时校长理查德·杰西命名的杰西安位于方庭南端；其周边红砖建筑使该区域得名「红校园」。

• In 1910 George Kessler tied the grounds together in a City Beautiful landscaping scheme, and limestone buildings erected east of the quadrangle in 1913 and 1914 became known as the White Campus.1910 年，乔治·凯斯勒以「城市美化」理念统一规划了校园景观；1913 与 1914 年在方庭以东建造的石灰岩建筑群则被称为「白校园」。

• In 1908 the Missouri School of Journalism opened at Columbia, claiming to be the world's first journalism school, although the Ecole Superieure de Journalisme de Paris had been established in 1899.1908 年，密苏里新闻学院在哥伦比亚开办，自称世界第一所新闻学院，不过巴黎高等新闻学院于 1899 年即已设立。

• In April 1923 James T. Scott, a black janitor accused of raping a professor's daughter, was abducted from the Boone County Jail and lynched from a bridge near the campus.1923 年 4 月，被控强奸一名教授女儿的黑人勤杂工詹姆斯·T·斯科特被人从布恩县监狱劫出，并在校园附近的一座桥上处以私刑。

• In 1935 four graduates of Lincoln University were denied admission to the university's graduate school, and one of them, Lloyd L. Gaines, took the case to the United States Supreme Court.1935 年，林肯大学四名毕业生被拒绝进入该校研究生院，其中劳埃德·L·盖恩斯把案件上诉至美国最高法院。

• On 12 December 1938 the court ruled six to two that Missouri must admit Gaines to its law school or provide a facility of equal stature, a landmark in American desegregation law, and after his disappearance in 1939 the university granted him a posthumous honorary law degree in May 2006.1938 年 12 月 12 日，最高法院以六比二裁定密苏里州须录取盖恩斯进入法学院或提供同等水平的设施，这是美国废除种族隔离法上的里程碑；在其 1939 年失踪后，该校于 2006 年 5 月追授其名誉法学博士学位。

• On 5 June 1935 the university erected a memorial to Missouri's Confederate soldiers, popularly known as Confederate Rock, which was removed in 1974, and undergraduate divisions were integrated by court order in 1950.1935 年 6 月 5 日，该校为密苏里邦联士兵设立纪念碑，俗称「邦联石」，该碑于 1974 年被移除；1950 年，本科各部依法院命令实现种族融合。

• Following the 2015 to 2016 campus protests over racial complaints, the chancellor and the system president resigned and the university was censured for a third time by the American Association of University Professors.在 2015 至 2016 年因种族问题引发校园抗议之后，校长与系统总校长辞职，该校第三次受到美国大学教授协会的谴责。

• On 11 March 2020 the university cancelled classes because of the emerging COVID-19 pandemic and resumed in-person teaching in August of that year, the last major disruption to its operations.2020 年 3 月 11 日，因新冠疫情该校取消课堂授课，并于当年 8 月恢复线下教学，这是其运营最近一次重大中断。

Academics

• The university is organised into seven colleges and eleven schools and hosts approximately three hundred majors, and as of 2024 its research and development expenditures were 462 million dollars as submitted to the National Science Foundation.该校设七个学院与十一个学校，开设约三百个专业；据其向美国国家科学基金会提交的数据，2024 年研发支出为 4.62 亿美元。

• It is a member of the Association of American Universities and is classified among R1 doctoral universities with very high research activity, and it is one of two land-grant universities in Missouri alongside Lincoln University.该校是美国大学协会成员，并被评为研究活动极为活跃的 R1 类博士型大学；它与林肯大学同为密苏里州的两所赠地大学。

• The Missouri School of Journalism, founded in 1908, has been ranked the top journalism school in the United States several times in the NewsPro and RTDNA survey, and the university system owns and operates KOMU-TV, an NBC and CW affiliate that serves as a working laboratory for students.1908 年创办的密苏里新闻学院曾在 NewsPro 与 RTDNA 的调查中多次被评为美国第一新闻学院；该大学系统拥有并运营 KOMU 电视台，这是哥伦比亚与杰斐逊城地区的 NBC 与 CW 附属台，也是新闻学生的实训平台。

• The journalism school publishes the Columbia Missourian and Vox Magazine, runs the National Public Radio station KBIA and produces Radio Adelante, a Spanish-language programme, giving students professional practice during their degrees.新闻学院出版《哥伦比亚密苏里人报》与 Vox 杂志，运营全国公共广播电台附属台 KBIA，并制作西班牙语节目 Radio Adelante，使学生在求学期间获得专业实践。

• The School of Health Professions was founded in 1978 after twenty-three years as a unit of the School of Medicine and became an autonomous division in December 2000, the only such school in the state on a campus with an academic health centre.健康职业学院在作为医学院下属单位二十三年后于 1978 年成立，并于 2000 年 12 月成为自治部门，是该州唯一设于拥有学术医疗中心校区的同类学院。

• The university's research reactor centre is the sole source of isotopes used in nuclear medicine in the United States, giving it a distinctive national role, and it operates University of Missouri Health Care with several hospitals in mid-Missouri.该校的研究反应堆中心是美国核医学所用同位素的唯一来源，使其具有独特的全国性角色；该校还运营密苏里大学医疗系统，在密苏里中部设有数家医院。

• The university maintains the largest library collection in Missouri, holding 3.1 million volumes, 8.1 million microforms and 678,596 e-books in the 2011-12 academic year, together with almost 1.7 million government documents and 53,000 journal subscriptions.该校拥有密苏里州最大的图书馆藏，2011-12 学年藏有图书 310 万册、缩微资料 810 万件与电子书 678,596 种，另有近 170 万件政府文献与 53,000 种期刊订阅。

• During the Civil War Union troops used the library in Academic Hall as a guard room and took 467 volumes to build fires, leading to a suit settled in 1915 that paid for the Memorial Gateway.内战期间联邦军队把学术堂内的图书馆用作警卫室，并取走 467 册图书用于生火，由此引发的诉讼于 1915 年和解，赔偿款用于修建纪念门。

• A new main library begun in 1913 and completed in 1915 was expanded in 1935, 1958 and 1985 and dedicated as Elmer Ellis Library on 10 October 1972 in honour of the thirteenth president.1913 年动工、1915 年建成的新主图书馆，于 1935 年、1958 年与 1985 年三度扩建，并于 1972 年 10 月 10 日为纪念第十三任校长而命名为埃尔默·埃利斯图书馆。

• Mizzou Online was formed in 2011 by merging two distance education units and offers online courses for eighteen of the university's colleges, ranking 28th of 339 universities in the 2024 U.S. News online bachelor's table.该校 2011 年合并两个远程教育单位组建 Mizzou Online，为校内十八个学院提供在线课程，并在 2024 年 US News 在线本科项目榜中位列 339 所高校的第 28。

• MU is the largest public university in Missouri, and 78.1 per cent of first-time applicants are admitted, with matriculating students averaging a GPA of 3.6, an SAT composite of 1232 and an ACT composite of 26.该校是密苏里州规模最大的公立大学，首次申请者录取率为 78.1%，入学学生平均绩点 3.6、SAT 综合分 1232、ACT 综合分 26。

• Freshman applicants must complete four English, four mathematics, three science, three social science, two foreign language and one fine art unit at high school, while home-schooled applicants need an ACT of 24 or an SAT of 1160.本科新生申请者须在高中完成四个英语、四个数学、三个科学、三个社会科学、两个外语与一个美术学分；在家自学者则须 ACT 达 24 分或 SAT 达 1160 分。

• OpenAlex attributes 139,206 works and 9,664,298 citations to the institution, one of the larger research outputs among American public universities.OpenAlex 记录该校 139,206 项成果与 9,664,298 次被引，在美国公立大学中科研产出位居前列。

• According to College Scorecard the median income in 2020 and 2021 for graduates who matriculated in 2010 and 2011 was 63,403 dollars, with 82 per cent of graduates earning more than high school graduates.据美国大学记分卡，2010 与 2011 年入学的毕业生在 2020 与 2021 年的收入中位数为 63,403 美元，82% 的毕业生收入高于高中毕业生。

• The Center on Education and the Workforce estimated the return on investment of a bachelor's degree at the university at 101,000 dollars ten years after graduation, rising to 1,006,000 dollars forty years after graduation.乔治城大学教育与劳动力中心估计，在该校取得学士学位的投资回报在毕业十年后为 101,000 美元，到毕业四十年后升至 1,006,000 美元。

• The university's graduation rate stands at 72 per cent according to College Scorecard, and its research and professional schools include law, medicine, journalism, business, engineering and veterinary medicine.据美国大学记分卡，该校毕业率为 72%；其研究与专业学院包括法学、医学、新闻、商学、工程与兽医学等。

Campus

• The campus covers 1,262 acres just south of downtown Columbia, at approximately 38.95171 degrees north and 92.33407 degrees west, and the grounds are maintained as the Mizzou Botanic Garden, designated in 1999 with more than 11,000 trees.校园占地 1,262 英亩，位于哥伦比亚市中心以南，坐标约为北纬 38.95171 度、西经 92.33407 度；校园作为植物园维护，1999 年正式定名「密苏里植物园」，有逾 11,000 棵树木。

• The historic campus centres on the Francis Quadrangle, a district listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and several individual buildings are also on the register.历史校园以弗朗西斯方庭为中心，该区域已列入国家史迹名录，另有多座单体建筑亦在名录之中。

• Academic buildings are divided into Red Campus, the brick core around the quadrangle columns, and White Campus, the limestone group built in the early twentieth century that includes the Memorial Union.其学术建筑分为「红校园」与「白校园」：前者是围绕方庭石柱的红砖核心区，后者为二十世纪初建造、含纪念学生会堂的石灰岩建筑群。

• During the 1990s Red Campus was extended south with the Carnahan Quadrangle, bordered by Hulston Hall of the law school and the Reynolds Alumni Center, and completed in 2002 with Cornell Hall of the Trulaske College of Business and Tiger Plaza.1990 年代「红校园」向南扩展出卡纳汉方庭，其两侧为法学院哈尔斯顿楼与雷诺兹校友中心，并于 2002 年随特鲁拉斯克商学院康奈尔楼与老虎广场建成而完整。

• Traditions Plaza opened on 25 October 2014 during homecoming festivities at the north end of the Carnahan Quadrangle.传统广场于 2014 年 10 月 25 日返校节活动期间在卡纳汉方庭北端启用。

• Athletic facilities lie south of the academic core across Stadium Boulevard, where Memorial Stadium opened in 1926 and the Hearnes Center was built to the east in 1972.体育设施位于学术核心区以南、跨过体育场大道，纪念体育场于 1926 年启用，赫恩斯中心则于 1972 年在其东侧建成。

• The football team plays at Faurot Field in Memorial Stadium, known as The Zou, built in 1926 with an official capacity of 71,168 and a nearly thirty metre wide M behind the north end zone.其橄榄球队在纪念体育场的法罗特球场（俗称「The Zou」）比赛，该场 1926 年建成，官方容量 71,168 人，北端区后方有一个近三十米宽的「M」字。

• Men's and women's basketball games take place at Mizzou Arena just south of the football stadium, while the Hearnes Center hosted basketball from 1972 to 2004 and remains in use for wrestling, volleyball and indoor track.男女篮比赛在橄榄球场以南的密苏里球馆举行；赫恩斯中心在 1972 至 2004 年间承办篮球赛事，现仍用于摔跤、排球与室内田径。

• The Student Recreation Center of 283,579 square feet, formed partly from Rothwell Gymnasium and Brewer Fieldhouse, was ranked first in the nation by Sports Illustrated in 2005.由罗斯韦尔体育馆与布鲁尔体育馆等部分构成的 283,579 平方英尺学生康乐中心，于 2005 年被《体育画报》评为全美第一。

• The university's hospitals and clinics occupy a site north of the sports complex, with the Ellis Fischel Cancer Center and Columbia Regional Hospital northeast of the main campus near Interstate 70.该校医院与诊所位于体育设施以北，埃利斯·菲舍尔癌症中心与哥伦比亚地区医院则位于主校区东北、靠近 70 号州际公路。

• The university operates 23 on-campus residence halls plus at least two off-campus sites, Tiger Diggs at Campus View Apartments and True Scholars House.该校运营 23 栋校内宿舍，并另有至少两处校外住宿点，即校园景公寓的 Tiger Diggs 与真学者之家。

• The campus was the main setting for the 1965 novel Stoner by John Edward Williams, whose protagonist is an English professor raised near Boonville.该校校园是约翰·爱德华·威廉姆斯 1965 年小说《斯通纳》的主要场景，主人公是一位在布恩维尔附近长大的英语教授。

• Because the campus is a compact urban site rather than a residential college in the traditional sense, students live in the halls of residence or in private housing across Columbia.由于校园属紧凑的城市型校区而非传统寄宿书院，学生多住在校内宿舍或哥伦比亚市内的私人房源中。

• Columbia is a college town of about 126,000 people midway between St. Louis and Kansas City, where the university coexists with Stephens College and Columbia College, and the campus lies within walking distance of its downtown.哥伦比亚是一座约 12.6 万人口的大学城，位于圣路易斯与堪萨斯城之间，该校与斯蒂芬斯学院和哥伦比亚学院同处一城；校园距其市中心步行可达。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings the University of Missouri is placed in the 721-730 band, according to the official ranking table.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，密苏里大学处于 721-730 区间。此排名以官方榜单为准。

• It stands in the 551-600 band of the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and is 441st in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校处于 551-600 区间，并在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 441。

• The Academic Ranking of World Universities placed it at 60 to 78 nationally and 201 to 300 globally in 2024, a ranking weighted towards research output and faculty prestige.2024 年世界大学学术排名将其列为全美第 60 至 78、全球 201 至 300 区间，该排名侧重科研产出与师资声望。

• OpenAlex attributes 139,206 works and 9,664,298 citations to the institution, reflecting a broad research base across agriculture, medicine, engineering and the social sciences.OpenAlex 记录该校 139,206 项成果与 9,664,298 次被引，反映其在农业、医学、工程与社会科学方面的广泛研究基础。

• Its research and development expenditures of 462 million dollars in 2024 and its sole-source role in nuclear medicine isotopes underpin its national standing in medicine and health professions education.其 2024 年 4.62 亿美元的研发支出，以及其在核医学同位素方面的唯一来源地位，支撑其在医学与健康职业教育方面的全国性地位。

• The Missouri School of Journalism is the university's best-known division, repeatedly rated the leading journalism school in the United States, and its claim to be the world's first is widely repeated but contested by the Paris school of 1899.密苏里新闻学院是该校最知名的部门，多次被评为美国领先的新闻学院；其「世界第一所新闻学院」的说法被广泛引用，但受到 1899 年巴黎那所学院的挑战。

• Membership of the Association of American Universities since 1908 places it among the leading North American research universities, and its library was described as the 47th largest research collection in North America.自 1908 年起成为美国大学协会成员，使其位列北美领先研究型大学之列；其图书馆被称为北美第 47 大研究收藏。

• In 2016 the university had 300,315 living alumni worldwide, of whom 156,585 lived in Missouri and 2,718 outside the United States, together with 18 Rhodes Scholars and 19 Truman Scholars.2016 年该校在全球有 300,315 名在世校友，其中 156,585 人居住在密苏里州、2,718 人居住在美国境外；此外还有 18 位罗德学者与 19 位杜鲁门学者。

• Its alumni and faculty also include 150 Fulbright Scholars, seven Governors of Missouri and six members of the United States Congress.其校友与教师中还包括 150 位富布赖特学者、七位密苏里州州长与六位美国国会议员。

• Its athletics give it a national profile, with the Tigers competing in the Southeastern Conference except for wrestling, which competes in the Big 12, making it the only Missouri school with all sports in Division I and football in the bowl subdivision.其体育赋予其全国知名度：除摔跤参加十二大联盟外，老虎队均属东南联盟，这使其成为密苏里州唯一所有项目都在一级联赛、橄榄球参加碗赛分区的学校。

Student life

• The university's motto, Salus populi suprema lex esto, was adopted from the state seal of Missouri and expresses the ideal of public service.其校训「Salus populi suprema lex esto」取自密苏里州州徽，表达公共服务至上的理念。

• Homecoming began in 1911, when the athletic director Chester Brewer invited alumni to come home for the football game against the University of Kansas, with a spirit rally and parade as part of the celebration.该校的返校节始于 1911 年，当时体育主任切斯特·布鲁尔邀请校友「回家」观看对阵堪萨斯大学的橄榄球赛，并安排了助威集会与游行。

• Missouri Homecoming also includes service elements, and its homecoming blood drive has earned a Guinness record as the largest of its kind in the nation.密苏里返校节还包含公益服务环节，其返校节献血活动曾获吉尼斯纪录，为全美同类活动中规模最大者。

• The Greek community was founded in 1869 and represents a significant part of campus culture, with about 7,500 students reported as members of fraternities and sororities.其希腊社团社群创于 1869 年，是校园文化的重要组成，据报约 7,500 名学生为兄弟会与姐妹会成员。

• Fraternity hazing brought national attention in 2021, when Danny Santulli suffered cardiac arrest and severe brain damage after being forced to drink about 1.75 litres of vodka, a case examined in the documentary Houses of Horror.2021 年兄弟会欺凌事件引发全国关注：丹尼·桑图利在被强迫一次喝下约 1.75 升伏特加后心脏骤停并遭受严重脑损伤，该案被纪录片《恐怖之屋》记述。

• The mascot Truman the Tiger was created on 16 September 1986 and named after Harry S. Truman, the only United States president from Missouri, following a campus-wide contest.吉祥物「老虎杜鲁门」于 1986 年 9 月 16 日经全校征集后产生，以密苏里州唯一出身的美国总统哈里·S·杜鲁门命名。

• The university announced on 6 November 2011 that it would leave the Big 12 Conference for the Southeastern Conference from 1 July 2012, and its wrestling team joined the Mid-American Conference as an associate member in September 2012.该校于 2011 年 11 月 6 日宣布自 2012 年 7 月 1 日起由十二大联盟转入东南联盟；其摔跤队于 2012 年 9 月以准会员身份加入中美国联盟。

• The men's basketball team has made 29 NCAA Tournament appearances, the second most without reaching a Final Four, and has appeared in the Elite Eight six times, twice under Norm Stewart, head coach from 1967 to 1999.其男篮 29 次进入 NCAA 锦标赛，是未进四强者中次数第二多者；该队六次闯入精英八强，其中两次在 1967 至 1999 年执教的主教练诺姆·斯图尔特治下。

• Missouri has won 15 conference championships across the Missouri Valley, Big Six, Big Eight and Big 12 conferences, going undefeated in the Big Eight in 1994 and winning Big 12 titles over Baylor in 2009 and 2012.该校在密苏里谷、六大、八大与十二大联盟中累计夺得 15 个联盟冠军，1994 年在八大联盟常规赛全胜，并于 2009 与 2012 年两度击败贝勒大学夺得十二大冠军。

• Standout basketball players have included Anthony Peeler, Jon Sundvold, Steve Stipanovich, Kareem Rush, Keyon Dooling, Doug Smith, Linas Kleiza, DeMarre Carroll, Jordan Clarkson and Marcus Denmon.其男篮知名球员包括安东尼·皮勒、乔恩·桑德沃尔德、史蒂夫·斯蒂帕诺维奇、卡里姆·拉什、基扬·杜林、道格·史密斯、利纳斯·克雷扎、德马雷·卡罗尔、乔丹·克拉克森与马库斯·丹蒙。

• The Tigers compete in men's and women's basketball, baseball, cross country, football, golf, gymnastics, swimming and diving, softball, track, tennis, volleyball, women's soccer and wrestling, and a ladies' shooting club won a national championship in 1934.老虎队参加男女篮、棒球、越野、橄榄球、高尔夫、体操、游泳与跳水、垒球、田径、网球、排球、女子足球与摔跤等项目；其女子射击俱乐部曾于 1934 年夺得全国冠军。

• Students work in the university's own newsroom, television station and radio station, giving journalism and communication students professional practice during their degrees.学生在学校自有的新闻编辑室、电视台与电台工作，使新闻与传播类学生在求学期间获得专业实践。

• Alumni remain closely tied to the university through athletics, homecoming and the university's own media outlets, which employ students and graduates.校友通过体育、返校节以及学校自有媒体与该校保持紧密联系，这些媒体也雇用学生与毕业生。

Notable people

• James S. Rollins, who owned the land on which the campus was built, is remembered as the Father of the University for his role in securing the site.拥有校园建设用地、并在争取校址中发挥关键作用的詹姆斯·S·罗林斯，被后人称为「大学之父」。

• Richard Jesse was president of the university at the time of the 1892 Academic Hall fire, and Jesse Hall, completed in 1895, carries his name, while David R. Francis, governor of Missouri, oversaw the rebuilding.理查德·杰西在 1892 年学术堂火灾时担任校长，1895 年落成的杰西安即以他命名；密苏里州州长戴维·R·弗朗西斯则主持了重建。

• Walter Williams founded the Missouri School of Journalism in 1908 and served as president of the University of Missouri from 1931 to 1935.沃尔特·威廉姆斯于 1908 年创办密苏里新闻学院，并于 1931 年至 1935 年担任密苏里大学校长。

• Lloyd L. Gaines, whose 1938 Supreme Court case opened graduate and professional education in Missouri to black students, received a posthumous honorary law degree in 2006.劳埃德·L·盖恩斯 1938 年的最高法院案件为黑人学生打开了密苏里的研究生与专业教育之门，他于 2006 年获追授名誉法学博士。

• Elmer Ellis, the thirteenth president of the university, is commemorated in the name of the main library, dedicated in 1972.该校第十三任校长埃尔默·埃利斯之名被用于 1972 年命名的主图书馆。

• Frederick Chapman Robbins, an alumnus, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954, and George Smith received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2018 while affiliated with the university.校友弗雷德里克·查普曼·罗宾斯于 1954 年获诺贝尔生理学或医学奖；乔治·史密斯在校任职期间于 2018 年获诺贝尔化学奖。

• Brad Pitt, the actor and producer, studied journalism at the University of Missouri before leaving for Los Angeles.演员与制片人布拉德·皮特曾在密苏里大学学习新闻学，后赴洛杉矶发展。

• Sheryl Crow, the singer and songwriter, studied music education at the university and graduated in 1984, and Jon Hamm, known for Mad Men, studied acting there and taught drama before moving to Los Angeles.歌手与词曲作者雪儿·克罗在该校学习音乐教育并于 1984 年毕业；以《广告狂人》闻名的乔恩·哈姆在此学习表演，并在移居洛杉矶前留校教授戏剧。

• Jim Lehrer, the long-serving PBS NewsHour anchor, trained at the Missouri School of Journalism, one of its most prominent graduates, and Tennessee Williams attended the university in the 1930s before completing his degree elsewhere.长期主持 PBS《新闻时间》的吉姆·莱勒在密苏里新闻学院受训，是该院最知名的毕业生之一；剧作家田纳西·威廉姆斯于 1930 年代曾在该校就读，后在别处完成学位。

• Claire McCaskill, a United States Senator from Missouri, and Roy Blunt, a senator and former House majority whip, are both graduates, and Mun Choi has served as chancellor since 2020 while also leading the university system.密苏里州联邦参议员克莱尔·麦卡斯基尔与曾任参议员及众议院多数党督导的罗伊·布朗特均为该校毕业生；崔文（Mun Choi）自 2020 年起任校长，同时领导整个大学系统。