MSU Factoid

One of Top 100 Global Universities (Newsweek/MSNBC rankings)

More than 140 active linkage agreements with international organizations in more than 50 countries

More Rhodes Scholars in past 25 years than any other Big Ten school

Sponsored research totaled nearly $377 million in 2006-07

Top federal funding agencies: National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and U.S. Department of Agriculture

Notable discoveries include:

• Cross-fertilization of corn in the 1870s
• Homogenization of milk in the 1930s
• Anticancer drug cisplatin in the 1960s
• Materials that reduce dependence on fossil fuels in the twenty-first century

MSU Extension reaches into all 83 counties in Michigan to provide practical, university-based knowledge

MSU Global extends academic and professional degree and certificate programs to off-campus learners, with more than 13,000 enrollments in 29 degree and certificate programs, making MSU one of the top three in online learning in the Big Ten

Other externally funded national and international research programs include the MSU-Department of Energy Plant Research Laboratory, the Center for Advancing Microbial Risk Assessment, the Composite Vehicle Research Center, the U.S.-China Center for Research on Educational Excellence, the Center for Advanced Study of International Development, and the Center for International Business Education and Research

University Outreach and Engagement connects faculty with external audiences to address community issues