Michigan State University is a public institution that was founded in 1855. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 39,090, its setting is suburban, and the campus size is 5,192 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. read more
Alfred D. Hershey, who took his undergraduate and doctoral degrees at MSU, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1969, while one of the world’s greatest ever basketball players Earvin “Magic” Johnson was a keen student at the university before being drafted by the NBA. read more
It depends. MSU has a bit of a reputation as a party school. It also has a growing reputation as a heavyweight sports school, especially for football and basketball (which has been really big there for a long time). read more
MSU is one of the top 80 universities in the world, according to the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings 2017. Times Higher Education ranks MSU No. 83 in its World University Rankings 2018, an 18-place improvement over 2016. The ranking puts Michigan State in the top 8 percent of 1,102 universities assessed around the world. read more