really that bad?
Perhaps the quality is really changed as I have heard. Good teachers might not want to stay teaching in MO anymore while the post is contract only.
my friends/ classmates in BA Music or MA music who learned in MO had a great musical sense. They could go to the music department of APA, BU or CU without any problems. Many of them are still working in music field.
One of my student also learned cello in MO and her standard was not bad.