RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
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ississippi State is classified by the influential Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education as a “Very High Research Activity” doctoral university. This classification represents the highest level of research activity for doctorate-granting universities in the country, and MSU is one of only 120 schools to hold the designation. In addition to its Carnegie classification, Mississippi State is the highest ranked university in the state and a top-100 university nationally in the National Science Foundation Higher Education Research and Development Survey for Fiscal Year 2018. MSU’s research expenditures totaled $244 million in FY 2018, accounting for more than half of the state’s total. As it works to support the state’s $8-billion agriculture and forestry industry, the 142-year-old land-grant institution’s $105 million in R&D expenditures in agricultural sciences in FY18 places the university in the nation’s top 5% — a position it has held for over two decades. Four of its Bagley College of Engineering disciplines are rated in the top 50 for research and development expenditures, including industrial, mechanical, aerospace and the NSF “Other Engineering” subfield. In social sciences, the university has led the Southeastern Conference for seven consecutive years and is ranked 12th nationally with $41 million in expenditures.
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