Michigan State University Academics - Rankings

Rankings

Michigan State ranks 75th in the world, according to a Shanghai Jiao Tong University study, with U.S. News & World Report's ranking MSU 70th in the U.S. The university has over 200 academic programs, several of them highly ranked. U.S. News has ranked MSU's graduate-level elementary education", secondary education, and Industrial and Organizational Psychology programs number one for the last decade. In U.S. News also ranks MSU's nuclear physics program second, behind only MIT. Indeed, MSU’s Physics & Astronomy department ranks highly based on the number and impact of publications its faculty publishes. In addition to this, the 2007 U.S. News ranks Michigan State's Supply Chain Management program in the Eli Broad College of Business number one in the nation, beating out MIT (ranked second). The National Communication Association ranks MSU doctoral programs as the nation’s most effective in educating researchers in health communication and communication technology. MSU also is ranked in the top four in several other communication fields, including international/intercultural communication, mass communication and interpersonal communication. Other programs of note include criminal justice, music therapy, hospitality business, packaging, political science, and communications. MSU's study abroad program is the largest of any single-campus university in the United States with 2,461 students studying abroad in 2004–05 in over 60 countries on all continents, including Antarctica.