Contact: Carl Smith
STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State stays the Magnolia State’s main analysis college and one of many nation’s prime 100 analysis establishments, in accordance with the Nationwide Science Basis.
MSU ranks 97th total amongst private and non-private establishments within the nation, in accordance with the just lately launched NSF Greater Schooling Analysis and Improvement Survey for Fiscal Yr 2021, based mostly on the college’s roughly $275 million in complete analysis and improvement expenditures. The land-grant college ranked sixtieth amongst non-medical college establishments and sixty fifth amongst public establishments.
Within the Magnolia State, MSU accounted for 56% of the just about $500 million in mixed FY ’21 analysis and improvement spending by the state’s establishments of upper studying. The college’s analysis applications additionally confirmed resilience within the face of COVID-19’s continued influence on funds. MSU’s analysis and improvement expenditures decreased 1.9% in a yr the place the state noticed an total 3.1% lower within the class.
“Because the Magnolia State’s main college and one of many nation’s prime land-grant establishments, Mississippi State’s dedication to analysis produces impactful outcomes, from making ready our graduates for future careers to bringing higher jobs to the state,” stated MSU President Mark E. Keenum. “Whether or not it’s by addressing international starvation, creating uncrewed aerial methods or constructing extra environment friendly autos, MSU’s college and workers are conducting analysis that may make our state, nation and world a greater place sooner or later.”
“This report reveals how we’ve cemented our place as one of many nation’s premier analysis establishments,” added Julie Jordan, vice chairman for analysis and financial improvement. “I’m happy with the work our college students, college and workers are conducting and stay up for seeing how our efforts will enhance the world for years to return.”
MSU stays within the prime half of the Southeastern Convention when it comes to analysis spending for quite a lot of disciplines and subdisciplines, together with aerospace, aeronautical and astronautical engineering; industrial and manufacturing engineering; atmospheric sciences and meteorology; agriculture, and pure sources and conservation; and social sciences, amongst others.
Total, the college’s agricultural analysis spending for the fiscal yr ranked eleventh within the nation, whereas its spending on pure sources and conservation analysis ranked thirteenth—the highest-ranked MSU subdisciplines within the survey.
“These rankings outcome from the exhausting work and ingenuity of our proficient MSU Division of Agriculture, Forestry and Veterinary Medication scientists,” stated DAFVM Vice President Keith Coble. “In the end, our scientists do what they do to assist Mississippi and to feed, dress and shelter the world.”
Go to www.ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf23304 to view the total NSF survey.
For extra details about MSU analysis, go to www.analysis.msstate.edu and www.dafvm.msstate.edu.
MSU is Mississippi’s main college, out there on-line at www.msstate.edu.