EAST LANSING, Mich. — Michigan State University is among the top 30 U.S. public universities, home to a top-25 undergraduate business program with the nation’s premier supply chain specialty, and has one of the 50 best undergraduate engineering programs, according to U.S.News & World Report rankings released today. Additionally, the university moved up – from 74 to 70 – on the magazine’s comprehensive annual list of best national universities.

Michigan State’s specific rankings in the U.S.News & World Report 2007 edition of America’s Best Colleges are:

• Best national universities: tied for No. 70
• Top 50 public national universities: tied for No. 30
• Best business programs: tied for No. 23
• No. 1 among supply chain specialty programs
• Best undergraduate engineering programs: tied for No. 43

Additionally, U.S. News listed MSU under its “programs to watch for,” both for opportunities to study abroad and participate in so-called learning communities. In learning communities, students take several linked courses and sometimes even live together – usually with the goal of getting to know one another and their professors well.

MSU today has two residential colleges – James Madison, which focuses on public affairs, and Lyman Briggs, which focuses on science. Next year, the university will open a new residential college that will emphasize arts and humanities in a global context.

The rankings will be available online at www.usnews.com on Aug. 18 and in the Aug. 28 print edition of the magazine. In compiling the rankings, the magazine considered college entrance exam scores of incoming students, average class size, reputation among peer institutions and several other factors.

In U.S.News rankings of graduate and professional programs published in April 2006, several MSU programs – in education, human and osteopathic medicine, business, engineering, nuclear physics, environmental science and intellectual property law – were listed among the nation’s best. Earlier this week, Newsweek ranked MSU No. 62 internationally in its “Top 100 Global Universities.”

For more information, see www.usnews.com. Information on MSU’s most recent graduate and professional rankings is available at: http://newsroom.msu.edu/site/indexer/2718/content.htm.

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