Top home states for MSU freshman applicants: Michigan, Illinois, New York, Ohio, Texas, Maryland, California, and Florida

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MSU Engineering Facts

  • MSU ranked 23 out of 50 in most Engineering Bachelor’s degrees awarded
  • MSU ranked 32 out of 50 in engineering Bachelor degrees awarded to women
  • MSU ranked 15 out of 50 for Civil angineering degrees awarded by school
  • MSU ranked 13 out of 50 for Mechanical engineering Degrees awarded
  • Average Salary for Graduates: $51,555; Maximum: $78,000; Minimum: $32,000

MSU Freshmen Facts

  • Freshman class profile (middle 50 percent of class): high school GPA, 3.4-3.8; SAT combined score, 1040-1260; ACT composite score, 23-27
  • Total applications received: 21,844
  • Percent who applied online: 62 percent
  • Total freshmen enrollment: 7,314
  • Number of female students: 4,185
  • Number of male students: 3,129
  • Number entering the Honors College: 477
  • Number entering the Academic Scholars program: 196
  • Most popular female first names: Jessica, Sarah, Ashley, Amanda, Jennifer, Lauren, and Megan
  • Most popular male first names: Michael, Matthew, Andrew, David, Daniel, Ryan, and Christopher
  • Most popular last names: Smith, Johnson, Miller, Brown, Lee, Kim, and Jones
  • Top home states: Michigan, Illinois, New York, Ohio, Texas, Maryland, California, and Florida
  • Top home countries: United States, Korea, India, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Turkey, Canada, and Saudi Arabia

MSU General Facts

  • Students from all 83 counties in Michigan, all 50 states in the United States, and about 125 other countries
  • Year founded: 1855
  • Religious affiliation: None
  • Academic calendar: Semester
  • Setting: Suburban
  • Endowment: $745,911,025
  • Tuition and fees: $7,396 in-state, $18,192 out-of-state
  • Room/board: $5,502
  • Application fee: $35
  • 54 percent women, 46 percent men
  • Approximately 389,500 living alumni worldwide
  • MSU’s student operated college radio station, WDBM (88.9-FM), the Impact, was named college radio station of the year in 2004, 2005, and 2006 - and was the first college radio station to broadcast in high definition.
  • Spartan athletes have won ten Olympic gold medals.
  • Largest single-campus residence hall system in the country with 23 undergraduate halls, one graduate hall, and three apartment villages
  • Students (fall 2005): 45,166 total: 35,678 undergraduate and 9,488 graduate and professional
  • MSU hires approximately 18,000 students per year as cashiers, computer assistants, food-service workers, laboratory attendants, research aides, tutors, and general laborers to name just a few of the types of on-campus jobs


MSU Notable Alumni

  • Spencer Abraham, U.S. secretary of energy
  • Amy Astley, editor-in-chief of Teen VOGUE magazine
  • Adnan Badran, former prime minister of Jordan
  • James Blanchard, former governor of Michigan
  • John Engler, former governor of Michigan
  • Richard Ford, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Independence Day
  • Eli Broad, renowned Fortune 500 business leader and founder of the Broad Foundation
  • Julie Aigner-Clark, founder of Baby Einstein
  • R. Drayton McLane Jr., owner of the Houston Astros baseball team
  • Michael Olman, winner of two prime-time Emmys for the Fox drama “24” and the Discovery Channel’s “Dinosaur Planet”
  • Debbie Stabenow, United States Senator
  • Wanda Herndon, senior vice president for worldwide public affairs for Starbucks Coffee
  • Anthony Heald, actor featured in “Silence of the Lambs,” “The Pelican Brief,” and most recently on Fox’s drama “Boston Public” playing the role of Assistant Principal, Scott Guber
  • Donna Hrinak, U.S. ambassador to Brazil