2. Michigan State University

  • Michigan State University is one of the largest public universities in the US, which was founded in 1855. It is one of the globally recognized land-grant education institutions that deliver quality education and academic excellence to international students from over 72 countries. With more than 200 programs in 17 degree-granting education institutions, Michigan State University is one of the globally acclaimed education institutions. Owing to such recognition globally, Michigan State University’s acceptance rate is 76% which makes the process a selective one.
  • It is considered a Public Ivy, or a public institution which offers an academic experience similar to that of an Ivy League university.
  • In its 2023 rankings, Times Higher Education World University Rankings ranked MSU 106th in the world. Michigan State ranks 101-150 in the world for 2021, according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities. Washington Monthly ranks MSU 48th nationally. The 2023 QS World University Rankings placed it at 159th internationally. In its 2022-2023 edition, U.S. News & World Report ranked it as tied for the 31st best public university in the United States, tied for 77th nationally and tied for 46th among best universities for veterans. In its 2020 edition, U.S. News & World Report ranked the following MSU graduate programs number one in the country: elementary teacher education and secondary teacher education (#1 for 26 straight years), African history (tied), curriculum and instruction (tied), industrial and organizational psychology, nuclear physics, rehabilitation counseling (tied), and supply chain management/logistics.
  • The Eli Broad College of Business was ranked No. 39th nationally for 2019–20 by Bloomberg Businessweek. Ninety-two percent of the school’s graduates received job offers in 2019.
  • The latest edition of U.S. News ranked Michigan State’s undergraduate and graduate supply chain management/logistics programs in the Eli Broad College of Business first in the nation. In addition, the Eli Broad College of Business undergraduate accounting program is ranked 22nd, the master’s accounting program is ranked 15th, and the doctoral program is ranked 18th, according to the 2018 Public Accounting Report’s Annual Survey of Accounting Professors.
  • The MBA program is ranked 27th in the U.S. by Forbes magazine.
  • The College of Communication Arts and Sciences was established in 1955 and was the first of its kind in the United States.
  • The college’s Media and Information Studies doctoral program was ranked No. 2 in 2007 by The Chronicle of Higher Education in the category of mass communication.
  • The communication doctoral program was ranked No. 4 in a separate category of communication in The Chronicle of Higher Education’s 2005 Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index, published in 2007.
  • The college’s faculty and alumni include eight Pulitzer Prize winners and a two-time Emmy Award winning recording mixer.