Where does Missouri rank among the country’s most educated states?

MISSOURI — Missouri ranked high on a new study comparing attained education and school quality across all 50 states.

According to Scholaroo, Missouri ranked as the eighth most educated state in the country, ranking above Illinois, Maryland, Iowa, and New Jersey. Missouri was noted for having the second highest share of doctoral program graduates.

Scholaroo, a scholarship website for students, compared 50 states across two measurements: educational attainment and school quality. Additionally, 19 related measurements were graded on a 100-point scale, determining each state’s weighted average across all metrics.

Educational attainment included apprenticeships, college experience, master’s program graduates, doctorate program graduates, literacy rate, and numeracy rate.

School quality measured the best and worst school systems, quality and quantity of colleges and universities, high school and college graduation rates, college-going rates, SAT, ACT, and AP exam scores, and financial and health literacy.

Massachusetts ranked number one as Minnesota, Connecticut, and Virginia followed close behind. Florida, Mississippi, and New Mexico ranked as the bottom three, according to the list.