F-104 Veterinary Medical Center
East Lansing, MI 48824-1314
Fax No. (517) 353-3041
E-mail: admiss@cvm.msu.edu
MSU CVM Admissions Office
F-104 Veterinary Medical Center East Lansing, MI 48824-1314
Telephone: (517) 353-9793 or 353-9794
Fax No. (517) 353-3041
E-mail: admiss@cvm.msu.edu
Michigan State University
Michigan State University was founded in 1855. A few years later, in 1862, the institution became the model for the nation’s 72 land-grant colleges established under the Morrill Act. Since that time, Michigan State has dedicated its resources to the land-grant mission of teaching, research, and public service.
Diversity is evident in the range of academic offerings at MSU and in the background and origin of its students. The university’s 14 colleges provide programs in more than 200 academic majors in the liberal arts, fine arts, and sciences. The university’s students, numbering more than 40,000, range across the nation’s ethnic, religious, and socioeconomic spectrum and include individuals from every county in Michigan, every state in the nation, and more than 100 countries.
Health professions students make up a significant portion of the MSU student body. In addition to the College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM), there are two human medical colleges (a college of allopathic medicine, which grants the M.D. degree, and a college of osteopathic medicine, which grants the D.O. degree), a college of nursing, a veterinary technology program, and a program in medical technology.
With its 5,000 contiguous acres, MSU is one of the largest American universities as well as one of the most beautiful. The developed campus comprises 2,000 acres; the remaining 3,000 acres are devoted to experimental farms, outlying research facilities, and natural areas.
In addition to classroom buildings, research laboratories, and residence halls, the main campus includes the Clifton and Dolores Wharton Center for Performing Arts, Kresge Art Museum, the MSU Museum, Abrams Planetarium, numerous athletic facilities, and sophisticated radio and television broadcasting studios. These facilities provide cultural and social enrichment for the university and nearby communities.
Although the adjacent city of Lansing is the state capital and one of the world’s largest producers of automobiles, the surrounding area is relatively rural. In fact, the state of Michigan as a whole has one of the most diversified agricultural industries in the nation (second only to California) in which an amazing variety of livestock, vegetable, fruit, grain, and other commodities are represented.