The 1947 NCAA Cross Country Championships were the ninth annual cross country meet to determine the team and individual national champions of men's collegiate cross country running in the United States.
In total, 19 teams and 151 individual runners contested this championship.
[1] The meet was hosted by Michigan State College at the Forest Akers East Golf Course in East Lansing, Michigan for the ninth consecutive time.
The team national championship was won by the Penn State Nittany Lions, their first overall.
The individual championship was won by Jack Milne, from North Carolina, with a time of 20:41.1.