Michigan State University | |
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City: | East Lansing, Michigan |
Type: | Public |
Sports: | baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, gymnastics, field hockey, ice hockey, rowing, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, track and field, volleyball, wrestling[1] |
Colors: | green, white |
Mascot: | Sparty (Spartans) |
Degrees: | Certificate, Bachelor's, Master's, Doctoral[2] |
Website: | http://www.msu.edu/ |
MSU redirects here. For other institutions abbreviated MSU, see MSU (disambiguation).
Michigan State University (MSU) is a public university founded in 1855 in East Lansing.[3] It ranked #71 in US News's 2008 "National Universities: Top Schools" list.[4]
Michigan State has 11 men's and 11 women's sports teams.[1] The football program has won 7 bowl games (while losing 10) and 2 national championships.[5] The men's basketball program has won 2 national championships.[6]