Mizzou is a powerhouse for innovations in research and creative works. Our faculty, students and staff lead breakthrough programs in fields ranging from personalized health to artificial intelligence to the humanities. Mizzou empowers its faculty, staff, and students to develop initiatives that push the boundaries of discovery and scholarly pursuit, launch breakthrough innovations and technologies, and deliver research that offers beneficial impacts to Missouri, the nation, and the world.

High Impact Research, Scholarship & Creative Works Goals

1. (Strategies 1-4): Increase overall research expenditures from $462 million to $700 million by 2030.
2. (Strategy 2): Increase the average number of scholarly books published by faculty from 40/year to 60/year by 2030.
3. (Strategy 2): Increase the number of faculty with highly prestigious external awards from 52 to 100 by 2030.
4. (Strategies 2-4): Increase the number of MU past 5-year citations in Web of Science from 164,000 to 200,000 by 2030.
5. (Strategies 2-3): Secure at least five new federally-funded research centers by 2030.
6. (Strategy 4): Increase the percentage of externally-funded graduate research assistantships from 60% to 85% by 2030.
7. (Strategy 2): Increase the number of annual patents filed from 67 to 100 by 2030.