Accomplishments
MSU continued its excellent record of students earning prestigious scholarships with the naming of Truman and Goldwater
winners in 2003. The scholarship count now stands at: Rhodes, 16; Churchill, 14; Truman, 13; Goldwater, 11; Marshall, seven; and
Mitchell and Gates, one each. The university has had more Rhodes
Scholars than any other Big Ten Conference university in
the past generation.U.S. News & World Report ranks 10 of
MSU’s graduate programs in the top 10 in their field nationally. The College of Education’s elementary and secondary
education graduate programs have been ranked No. 1 for nine consecutive years. The criminal justice program is the largest such
program in the nation. Established in 1935 as a school of police administration, it is a world leader in cyber security, forensic
science, and the study of youth violence.The university's Study Abroad program is the largest of any single-campus university in the nation; 1,819 MSU students studied
abroad in 2001-02. Study Abroad offers more than 190 programs in more than 60 countries on all continents.MSU is home to a world-class particle accelerator, the
National Superconducting Cyclotron. In 2004 a new isotope of the element germanium was produced and observed at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory. The new germanium
isotope is Ge-60.
Academic programs
Bachelors, master's, and doctoral programs are offered through MSU's colleges:
- The College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
- The College of Arts and Letters
- The Eli Broad College of Business and The Eli Broad Graduate School of Management
- The College of Communication Arts and Sciences
- The MSU College of Law (formerly the Detroit College of Law)
- The College of Education
- The College of Engineering
- The College of Human Ecology
- The College of Human Medicine
- The Lyman Briggs College of
Natural Science
- The James Madison College (which offers Public Affairs degrees for undergraduates only)
- The College of Natural Science
- The College of Nursing
- The College of Osteopathic Medicine
- The College of Social Science
- The College of Veterinary Medicine.