How is their PhD program? Would someone who enrolled in Missouri several years ago they made a catastrophic mistake or just a gigantic mistake?
Missouri
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It has funding problems. Last semester there was a protest, something related to graduate student health insurance, along with the protest against campus racism. They have been loosing their best faculty to other programs. Leslie SB (now at Rice) and now their DGS to Georgia.
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Definitely worth it if you go study with Melissa Click as your adviser.
She a) isn't in the political science department, and b) has been denied tenure, so this isn't a wise course. Fortunately the actual scholars in the program are considerably better scholars and mentors than she is.
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The people I know from there have gotten jobs at places like Coastal Carolina, North Alabama, and University of Arkansas-Monticello (the latter person had other offers in somewhat nicer areas but is from Arkansas). Obviously past performance is not a perfect predictor of future results but I think most people have gotten tenure-track jobs.
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How is their PhD program? Would someone who enrolled in Missouri several years ago they made a catastrophic mistake or just a gigantic mistake?
It is a catastrophic mistake. Their legislature hates mizzou and after Melissa Click, so do the parents. She was basically visual confirmation of every Fox News stereotype of the professorate in a deeply red state. Funding cuts are going to happen anywhere funding cuts can happen.