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Originally Posted by Mr. Kotter
Aside from dubious opinions from over-blown egos who think more highly of themselves than is warranted .... and a couple of schools who've sucked up to the right people in some "ratings" organizations, I'd say you are just plain wrong. Guess we'll have to agree to disagree though.
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Part of the money outlay is tied to academics. The Big Ten's academics rank so well in large part because of the CIC fund. The annual disbursement to memeber schools from that is equal to or higher than Mizzous slice of the finding pie from the state legislature.
Being a member of that increases research prestige significantly. And with the reactor and the state-of-the-art life sciences center (which is mostly empty), Mizzou faces very real and tangible bonuses to it's ability to attract donors (which in turn helps pay for it's slice of the cic pie)