Public Ivy
MSU has about 5,703 faculty and 7,365 staff members. Listed as a Public Ivy, Michigan State is a member of the Association of American Universities. Michigan State University Ombudsman is the longest continually operating ombudsman office at a college or university in the country. MSU's study abroad program is amongst the 10 largest of any single-campus university in the United States with 2,755 MSU students studying abroad in 2017–18 in over 60 countries on all continents, including Antarctica.