A Mizzoumade® Future
It’s an exciting world out there. We’ll help you develop the skills and make the connections to take it by storm.
Degrees That Deliver
A Mizzou education is so much more than a diploma. It’s a signal that you’ve got what it takes to succeed. Our alumni excel in exciting spaces — from the arts to aerospace and everywhere in between — showing the world what it means to be Mizzoumade®. That’s why the nation’s brightest students choose us, and why top companies choose our students.
Cultivating Connections
Our Career Services team is committed to helping you explore opportunities, develop career-readiness skills and prepare for that big job interview. Mizzou graduates are highly sought-after, and each year thousands of recruiters partner with us to host career fairs, recruitment events and workshops.
Employers recruit Mizzou grads each year
Of Mizzou grads are successful within six months of graduation
Fortune 500 companies that hired Mizzou grads in 2024
Major Companies Seek Major Talent
That means you.
Where will your Mizzou degree take you? Our Tigers have found success in every major sector. These are just some of the industry-defining organizations our alumni have joined.
- Accenture
- AdKarma
- Aflac
- Apple
- AT&T
- Bayer
- Best Buy
- Caterpillar
- CBS
- Cerner
- CNN
- Deloitte
- Disney
- E&J Gallo
- Edward Jones
- Emerson Electric
- Enterprise
- Ernst & Young
- ESPN
- General Mills
- Huffington Post
- KPMG
- Lockton Companies
- MassMutual
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- National Network to End Domestic Violence
- NBC
- The New York Times
- PepsiCo
- Pipeline
- PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Procter & Gamble
- Snapchat
- TEKsystems
- Toyota
- United Nations
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Vanity Fair
- Victoria’s Secret
- Wells Fargo
- X
- Yahoo!
- Zapier
Mizzoumade®
Inventors, entrepreneurs, entertainers — our Tigers are known for innovation and excellence. That’s why Time magazine named us No. 13 among flagship universities in its Best Colleges for Future Leaders ranking, based on an analysis of the 2,000 most influential people in U.S. business, government and society. These are just a few of our notable alumni.
Anna Merkel
2022
Launch Engineer, SpaceX
Kyle Holtzman
2016
Business Lead, Google
Cara Hartwig
2016
Vice President, TPG Growth, Rise and TPG Next Capital Formation
Joey Greenstein
2014
Programming Producer, Snap Inc.
Kate Doetsch
2013
Technical Integrator, Boeing
Bryan Helmig
2011
Co-founder and CTO, Zapier
Wade Foster
2009, 2010
Co-founder and CEO, Zapier
Max Scherzer
2006
Major League Baseball Pitcher and Cy Young Award Winner
Josh Kroenke
2004
President, Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche
Nischelle Turner
1998
Emmy Award-Winning Co-Host, Entertainment Tonight
Hayes Barnard
1995
Founder, Chairman and CEO, GoodLeap and GivePower
Founder, GoodFinch
Jon Hamm
1993
Emmy Award-Winning Actor
John Anderson
1987
Mizzou Professor and Former ESPN Sports Anchor
Major Garrett
1984
Retired CEO
Sheryl Crow
1984
Grammy Award-Winning Singer-Songwriter and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee
Pamela Nicholson
1981
CEO, Enterprise
Jonathan Murray
1977
Documentary Film Producer, Co-Creator of MTV’s “The Real World”
Linda Godwin
1976, 1980
Former NASA Astronaut, Professor Emeritus
David Novak
1974
Retired CEO, YUM! Brands
Andrew and Peggy Cherng
1972 and 1971, 1974
Founders, Panda Restaurant Group
Rodger O. Riney
1968, 1969
Founder, Scottrade
Winnie Fritz
1968
U.S. Army Veteran and Health Care Pioneer
Rich Kinder
1966, 1968
Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, Kinder Morgan
Sam Walton
1940
Co-Founder, Walmart and Sam’s Club