Michigan State University Ranking

The rankings provided by Financial Times are Global MBA, Masters in Management, Masters in Finance, Executive MBA, etc. For the MBA Rankings 2025, Michigan State University has not been ranked. However, in 2024, this university ranked at #51 in the Financial Times MBA rankings. 

To evaluate the perfomance of MSU, the US World and News uses some of the parameters which are Global Research Reputation, Regional Research Reputation, Conferences, Books, Total Citations, Publications, etc. the weightage for some of the indicators utilized to cumulate Best Global Universities ranking are:

Also Check: U.S. News & World Report Global Universities Ranking Methodology

Michigan State University is ranked by Times Higher Education for the year 2026 and this ranking is 105 among the top universities of the world. Many parameters are used for the same like teaching, research development, research quality, industry, international outlook. Look at the table given below for the MSU scores on each of these parameters - 

Michigan State has been consistently ranked by ARWU Shanghai ranking body over the years. In the past 3 years, its MSU's ARWU ranking has witnessed a stagnant rank. In the 2025 ranking, the university was ranked at #151 globally and the same was the case for the past some years. 

Some of the subject rankings of MSU Michigan are given below as per some of the top-ranking publishers:

U.S. News & World University Rankings (Global) 2025-26

Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings

According to the top-ranking publisher, MSU ranks among the Top 200 Universities worldwide. The latest rankings of this university are given below:

Michigan State University world rankings as per different ranking publishers are given below:

• THE World University Rankings : #105
• QS World Rankings: #161
• US News & World Report Global Rank: #133
• ARWU Shanghai Rankings (2025): #151

Michigan State University ranks at #56 in Bloomberg Business School rankings in 2024-25 rankings. The indicators that are used for ranking the B-schools are:

• Compensation
• Learning
• Networking
• Entrepreneurship
• Diversity

Michigan State University ranked at #151 in Shanghai rankings 2025. In the previous year, this university was placed in the same position. This shows that there is no change in the Shanghai rankings. Parameters used to calculate these rankings are quality of education, quality of faculty, research output, and per capita performance. Law, Sociology, and Political Sciences courses of this university also rank well in the Shanghai 2025 rankings. 

The UG Business course of Michigan State University has been ranked at #24 in 2026 rankings by U.S. News & World Report. In the previous year, this course ranked at #27. Also, for a lot of courses, this ranking publisher ranked Michigan State in 2025 such as Supply Chain Management MBA at #3, UG Mechanical Engineering at #26, Chemical Engineering PG at #53, Civil Engineering PG at #31, Graduate Business School at #35, etc.