Quick Facts About MSU East Lansing, Michigan

  • Location: East Lansing, Michigan, USA
  • Founded: 1855
  • Accredited by: North Central Association of Colleges and Schools since 1915
  • Degree Granting Colleges: 17
  • Total Student Enrollment: 46,045
  • International Students and Faculty: More than 4,000
  • Countries Represented: 130
  • Faculty and Academic Staff: 4,931
  • Alumni in the Middle East and UAE: 30,000
  • Alumni Worldwide: 461,000

MSU Rankings and Recognitions

  • One of the top 100 universities in the world, for six consecutive years, by Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Institute of Higher Education in its annual Academic Ranking of World Universities.

  • Ranked 62nd in a Newsweek/MSNBC 2006 ranking of the Top 100 Global Universities selected for openness and diversity, as well as distinction in research.

  • Ranked first, for the fourth year in a row, in study abroad participation among public universities according to the Institute of International Education.

  • MSU's Eli Broad College of Business ranks 25th among the nation's business schools, with five undergraduate business specialty programs receiving top national rankings in their categories:
    • Supply chain management ranks 2nd in the U.S.A.
    • Production/operations management ranks 9th in the U.S.A.
    • Accounting ranks 10tn in the U.S.A.
    • Management ranks 11th in the U.S.A.
    • Marketing ranks 15th in the U.S.A.

  • The National Communication Association (NCA) ranked MSU’s College of Communication Arts and Sciences, which offers the Media Management and Research undergraduate concentration, as No. 1 in educating researchers in the rapidly growing fields of communication technology and health communication.

  • The Media and Information Studies Ph.D. program in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences was ranked 2nd in the U.S.A. in the category of mass communication by the Chronicle of Higher Education.

  • MSU's graduate programs in elementary and secondary education rank No. 1 in the nation for the 14th year in a row. The College of Education is ranked 14th in the nation for the fourth consecutive year, with seven specialties ranking in the top eight within their classifications:
    • Young students in a classroomThe graduate program in rehabilitation counseling ranks first in the nation.
    • The curriculum and instruction graduate program ranks second in the nation.
    • The graduate program in higher education administration ranks fourth in the nation.
    • Educational psychology's graduate program ranks fifth in the nation.
    • The graduate program in education policy ranks eighth in the nation.

  • MSU's Department of Computer Science and Engineering has been ranked 18th in the nation among all computer science graduate programs in an article published in the June 2007 issue of Communications of the ACM—the flagship magazine of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

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