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Michigan State College

Michigan State University
Michigan State University seal.svg
Motto Advancing Knowledge. Transforming Lives.
Type
Established February 12, 1855
Endowment $2.225 billion (2016)
President Lou Anna Simon
Academic staff
5,300
Administrative staff
6,800
Students 50,543
Undergraduates 39,143
Postgraduates 11,400
Location East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Campus Suburban
10,000 acres (40 km2)
Colors Green, white
         
Nickname Spartans
Mascot Sparty
Sporting affiliations
NCAA Division IBig Ten
Website www.msu.edu
Michigan State University wordmark.svg
University rankings
National
ARWU 51-61
Forbes 149
U.S. News & World Report 82
Washington Monthly 38
Global
ARWU 101-150
QS 160
Times 101
U.S. News & World Report 78

Michigan State University (MSU) is a public research university in East Lansing, Michigan, United States. MSU was founded in 1855 and served as a model for land-grant universities later created under the Morrill Act of 1862. The university was founded as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, one of the country's first institutions of higher education to teach scientific agriculture. After the introduction of the Morrill Act, the college became coeducational and expanded its curriculum beyond agriculture. Today, MSU is one of the largest universities in the United States (in terms of enrollment) and has approximately 540,000 living alumni worldwide.

MSU pioneered the studies of packaging, hospitality business, supply chain management, and communication sciences. Michigan State frequently ranks among the top 30 public universities in the United States and the top 100 research universities in the world.U.S. News & World Report ranks many of its graduate programs among the best in the nation, including African history, criminology, industrial and organizational psychology, educational psychology, elementary and secondary education, osteopathic medicine, nuclear physics, rehabilitation counseling, supply chain/logistics, and veterinary medicine. MSU is a member of the Association of American Universities, an organization of 62 leading research universities in North America. The university's campus houses the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, the W. J. Beal Botanical Garden, the Abrams Planetarium, the Wharton Center for Performing Arts, the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, and the country's largest residence hall system.


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