In recent years, MSU's music program has grown substantially.

MSU's sports program offers football, both men's and women's club hockey, basketball, cross country, indoor / outdoor track and field, golf, baseball, women's soccer, volleyball and fastpitch softball.

The Bulldog Club, MSU's athletic fund-raising body, shouldered a $ 2 million bonding program to account for the biggest portion of the project, with the remainder financed by alumni and friends through the sale of $ 1, 000, $ 500 and $ 250 chairback seats, honorary deeds to plots of Dudy Noble Field turf, and other general donations.

Named after Lucille Little, MSU's Little Company is a touring troupe of students in the Theatre Department that performs plays and conducts workshops for up to 100 schools in the area each year.

MSU's sprawling campus is located in East Lansing, Michigan.

MSU's newest residential college is the Residential College in Arts & Humanities.

Since their teams are called the Spartans, MSU's mascot is a Spartan warrior named Sparty.

MSU's traditional archrival is the University of Michigan, against whom they compete annually for the Paul Bunyan Trophy.

MSU's record against the Fighting Irish is 25 – 44 – 1 but the Spartans have had much success against the Irish recently, becoming the first team ever to win six straight games at Notre Dame Stadium.

It is MSU's second tallest building, surpassed by Spartan Stadium ( East Lansing ) | Spartan Stadium

MSU's Public Broadcasting Service affiliate, WKAR-TV, the station is the second-oldest educational television station in the United States, and the oldest east of the Mississippi River.

MSU's campus is heavily forested.

The current president of the University is Lou Anna Simon who took over on January 1, 2005, after being appointed by MSU's governing board, the Board of Trustees.

The name of the river is featured in the first line of MSU's fight song, and MSU students are often found studying in the campus park along the river's banks.

Montana State University offers the world's only Master of Fine Arts degree in Science and Natural History Filmmaking, and MSU's Museum of the Rockies is home to the largest T. Rex skull ever found — bigger, even, than " Sue " at the Chicago Field Museum.

The MSU's chief legislative body is the Student Representative Assembly ( SRA ), a 35-member parliament comprising the president, vice-presidents, and 31 elected student representatives from nine ( 9 ) academic divisions of the University ( Arts & Science, Business, Engineering, Health Sciences, Kinesiology, Humanities, Nursing, Science, and Social Sciences ).

The SRA is the MSU's highest policy-setting body and has the sole authority to approve and modify legislation and elect officers other than the President.

It is home to the MSU's ice hockey team.

He is also MSU's all-time leader in rebounds with 1, 374, and led the nation in that category in the 1990-91 season.

The university houses the new college in a newly renovated Snyder-Phillips Hall, the location of MSU's first residential college, Justin Morrill College.

Nevertheless, MSU's music college plans on continued success, placing an annual average of 25 graduate students in tenure stream university positions.

However, many blamed Polk along with his senior administration and MSU's Board of Trustees when the university began facing issues over its continued accreditation.

In 1957 Hannah continued MSU's expansion by co-founding Michigan State University – Oakland, now Oakland University, with Matilda Dodge Wilson.

MSU's first residential college, Justin Morrill College started in 1965 with an interdisciplinary curriculum.

During MSU's 2005 summer semester, the intersection at which the statue stood was completely redesigned to allow for safer traffic interaction with pedestrians.

In order to express their displeasure with the decision of the Higher Learning Commission, on August 6, 2012, MSU's Board of Trustees formally appealed the withdrawal of MSU's accreditation.

On January 17, 2009, MSU retired his number 42 with MSU's other all time greats before their game against the Illinois Fighting Illini.

Jones ranks fourth on MSU's all-time scoring list with 2, 057 points.

Founded in 1956, the MSU Honors College provides individualized curricula to MSU's top undergraduate students.

Around 16, 000 students live in MSU's 23 undergraduate halls, one graduate hall, and three apartment villages.

John Alfred Hannah ( October 9, 1902 – February 23, 1991 ) was president of Michigan State College ( later Michigan State University ) for 28 years, making him the longest serving of MSU's presidents.

The dig was part of MSU's 2005 sesquicentennial celebration.

At the time of MSU's establishment, a collection of 25, 000 books belonging to two state libraries ( Huzur Political Office and Secretariat Library ) was handed over to the University Library.

The MSU's offices have been located in four buildings over time.

MSU's first graduating class consisted of twelve people on February 1, 1973.

By the late 20th century, Michigan's harsh winters had taken a toll on the terra cotta statue, as had vandalism by fans of MSU's rival school, the University of Michigan.

The immediate cult status that Phystech gained among talented young people, drawn by the challenge and romanticism of working on the forefront of science and technology, and on projects of " government importance ," many of them classified, made it an untouchable rival of every other school in the country, including MSU's own Department of Physics.

On MSU's possession, running back Larry Caper scored on a 24-yard touchdown run.

UC further announced that MSU would be closing and that it would take control of MSU's Beckley and Martinsburg campuses on January 1, 2013.

To help in this transition, UC classes will be taught on MSU's West Virginia campuses in the Fall 2012 semester.

He then began broadcasting Michigan State sports on MSU's radio station WKAR in a position arranged for him by his coach, Charlie Bachman.

Its studios are located on MSU's campus in East Lansing, its city of license.