Morehead State University is much more than you might expect. MSU delivers a strong and affordable education for friendly, ambitious students who thrive in a student-focused learning environment defin...
Morehead State University is much more than you might expect. MSU delivers a strong and affordable education for friendly, ambitious students who thrive in a student-focused learning environment defined by small class sizes and faculty committed to teaching and student success.
FAST FACTS
- Founded: 1887 as Morehead Normal School
- Enrollment: approx 10,000 students from 106 Ky counties, 42 states and 35 nations
- Type of institution: public, coed
- Average class size: 18
- Student/faculty ratio: 17 to 1
- Two-thirds of the faculty hold doctoral degrees.
- 143 undergraduate degree programs (associate and baccalaureate), 70 graduate degree programs and five education specialist programs (Ed.S.) in five specialty areas, as well as Ed.D programs.
- 1 of 5 institutions in U.S. with a bachelor's degree in space science
- SACS accredited
- Recognized for the ninth consecutive year as one of the top public universities in the South in the 2012 edition of "America's Best Colleges" by U.S.News & World Report.
- Classes offered: on campus, at regional campus centers in Ashland, Mount Sterling, Prestonsburg and West Liberty, the University Center of the Mountains, other sites and online.
- Ranked among the safest in the nation.
- 64,000 degrees awarded
- Colors: blue and gold
- Mascot: eagle (aka Beaker)
- Charter member of Ohio Valley Conference in NCAA Division I. Football competes in the Pioneer Football League.