{"id":12006,"date":"2025-10-07T10:07:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T15:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=12006"},"modified":"2025-10-07T13:13:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T18:13:43","slug":"12006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2025\/10\/07\/12006\/","title":{"rendered":"MoWest top regional public university in Missouri for social mobility according to U.S. News &#038; World Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-12007 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/10\/Social-Mobility-Graphic-400x500.png\" alt=\"top ranked public university in missouri for social mobility\" width=\"300\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/10\/Social-Mobility-Graphic-200x250.png 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/10\/Social-Mobility-Graphic-248x310.png 248w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/10\/Social-Mobility-Graphic-400x500.png 400w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/10\/Social-Mobility-Graphic-600x750.png 600w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/10\/Social-Mobility-Graphic-768x960.png 768w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/10\/Social-Mobility-Graphic-800x1000.png 800w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/10\/Social-Mobility-Graphic-819x1024.png 819w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/10\/Social-Mobility-Graphic.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Oct. 7. 2025&#8211;Missouri Western State University is the No. 1 regional public university in Missouri for social mobility, according to the U.S. News &amp; World Report 2026 Best Colleges rankings.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMoWest has a 110-year history of transforming lives through the power of education,\u201d said Dr. Elizabeth Kennedy, president. \u201cA critical part of our mission as an open-enrollment institution is to meet our students where they are and provide them with the support they need to succeed. When our students succeed, they are well prepared for rewarding careers that benefit them, their families and their communities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The rankings recognize the challenges faced by economically disadvantaged students, and the colleges and universities that \u201care more successful than others at advancing social mobility by enrolling and graduating large proportions of disadvantaged students awarded with Pell Grants.\u201d\u00a0 The social mobility rankings are based on the graduation rates for Pell Grant recipients.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MoWest was ranked No. 80 for Social Mobility among Midwest Regional Universities, the 16th best ranking among public universities in the 12-state region and the top ranking among Missouri\u2019s regional public universities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Missouri Western State University is a student-centered learning community preparing individuals for lives of excellence through applied learning. MoWest is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">missouriwestern.edu<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oct. 7. 2025&#8211;Missouri Western State University is the No. 1 regional public university in Missouri for social mobility, according to the U.S. News &amp; World Report 2026 Best Colleges rankings.\u00a0 \u201cMoWest has a 110-year history of transforming lives through the power of education,\u201d said Dr. Elizabeth Kennedy, president. \u201cA critical part of our mission as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":12007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12006"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12009,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12006\/revisions\/12009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}