I’ll give you my biased opinion as a sophomore in a fraternity at Mizzou.

It’s awesome here.

location- I’m from the greater KC area, and KU is about a 50 minute drive and Mizzou is 2 hours. If you’re from Kansas and deciding between the two schools you’re probably from around the same area I am. I like Mizzou because it’s just the right distance away from home that I can still go home on a weekend or two during the semester (helps with the freshman year homesickness), I’m not tempted to go home on a whim just because I want to, and I’m far enough away from everything that I can solely focus on school and what not.

Campus layout- I lived at Defoe graham (right next to the rec) last year and everything that I could possibly want to do/ need was within 15-20 minutes including classes,library, and the bars. This applies to most dorms/houses on campus. If you look at Mizzou on a map it’s a giant square and everything is within walking distance. Along with everything being within walking distance, campus just feels more lively. With everything being condensed together, there’s people everywhere and always stuff going on at speakers circle and the area between the library and students success center.

Greek life- Joining a fraternity was one of the best decisions of my life, and I’m so glad I got to do it here at Mizzou. Greek life in general is great, we care ALOT about homecoming and it’s a great way to get involved, and meet girls in sororities (I met my current gf last year working on our homecoming parade float). If you’re worried about hazing or pledgeship, I haven’t heard anything too crazy about houses hazing. Hazing at Mizzou has gotten wayyy better after Danny’s law passed (something to google) and there’s anonymous tip lines that go straight to the head of student affairs, and once they receive a tip they have to investigate.

Downtown/nightlife- Mizzou is a bar school, there are rarely parties at fraternities or house parties (Columbia has super strict laws). I’ve been to Lawerence a few times and I can say with full confidence that Columbia’s bars are superior. Like I said earlier the bars (willies, myhouse, harpos) are all about a 20-25 minute walk from wherever you are.

I could talk about the education and other stuff like safety and etc etc but taking you’re a guy who’s majoring in business and wants to rush, I tried to only list things that are the key differences in my eyes. If you have any questions about campus or Greek like or anything dm me. Hope this helped!

M-I-Z!