Michigan State University(MSU)

Michigan State structures its undergraduate scholarships as a ladder, and international students sit on it. The President's, Provost's, Dean's and college scholarships that appear below are awarded by level of academic record, and they are considered automatically from the admission application, so an international first-year applicant with a strong record is evaluated for the whole ladder rather than applying to each rung. The non-resident and global community awards add further consideration for students coming from outside Michigan.

Graduate funding at MSU runs through the colleges and departments, with doctoral students supported by research and teaching assistantships and internal fellowships. The strongest packages sit in MSU's large research colleges, and assistantships normally cover tuition plus a stipend. Professional master's students mostly combine college scholarships with their own funding.

MSU's automatic model means the admission deadline is the scholarship deadline for most international undergraduates, and the official link on each card leads to the MSU page that states the current award terms. When comparing options, read the level and provider lines first, since the automatic undergraduate ladder and the graduate assistantships are two different systems that happen to share a page.