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# University of Missouri At Rolla featured in The Simpsons
- URL: https://starikov.co/university-of-missouri-at-rolla-featured-in-the-simpsons/
- Published: 2025-04-26T23:14:50.000Z
- Updated: 2025-04-27T07:42:01.000Z
- Author: Illya Starikov
- Tags: Missouri S&T, #u-color-bg-tag-accent, #u-color-text-light

It’s not often my college — Missouri University of Science and Technology, aka Missouri S&T — makes an appearance in pop culture. When it does, it’s kind of a big deal; at least me.

So I was incredibly happy to discover that Missouri S&T was [featured in the Simpsons](https://www.reddit.com/r/Rolla/comments/131hg4/umr%5Fon%5Fthe%5Fsimpsons/?ref=starikov.co). This Reddit thread is where I found this, which lays out the premise:

> Lisa was increasing her college tuition budget by gambling online. Every time she won more money, she changed her sweater to a "better" college. We \[Rolla\] are better than Springfield Community College and worse than Harvard, Yale, Oxford. — u/bullhonke

![](https://starikov.co/content/images/2025/04/lisa_university_of_missouri_at_rolla-1.png)

Lisa Simpsons featuring a retro Missouri S&T sweater (S24 E4, 11:40)

It’s fitting, at least for those of us who had the great honor of studying under the legendary [Clayton Price](https://sites.google.com/a/mst.edu/price/?ref=starikov.co). Price taught computer science and was well-known for making his (difficult) assignments based on his favorite show: the Simpsons. I assume many former-students have nightmares in the middle of the night, trying to articulate Bart and Homer doing something comical into code.

The irony is this episode aired 2012, and I never saw this during my tenure. Additionally this was almost a decade after Mr. Price famously got rid of his television, so clearly he never saw it either. But it’s heartwarming to us Missouri S&T alumni to know we existed in a timeline where this episode, Price, and our experiences at Rolla co-existed.