Michigan State University

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Michigan State University - public research university in East Lansing, Michigan, United States. This university is the 101^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of universities and the 81^st most popular university in English Wikipedia. Article “Michigan State University” in English Wikipedia has 94.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 419 references and 43 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 4131^st most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 81^st most popular in universities in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 101^st most popular in universities.

In June 2026 the article “Michigan State University” was edited by 7 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Michigan State University”, its content was written by 1221 registered users of English Wikipedia (4131^st place) and edited by 1944 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Michigan State University is on the 81^st place in local ranking of universities in English Wikipedia and on the 101^st place in global ranking of universities in all the time.

The article is cited 7507 times in English Wikipedia (2843^rd place) and cited 16614 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #711 in May 2006
• Global: #2271 in May 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #7427 in February 2023
• Global: #16077 in February 2023

There are 39 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Michigan State University		94.8961
2	Chinese (zh) 密歇根州立大学		77.2066
3	Korean (ko) 미시간 주립 대학교		73.5859
4	Estonian (et) Michigani osariigi ülikool		63.8629
5	Japanese (ja) ミシガン州立大学		52.7958
6	German (de) Michigan State University		47.7642
7	Malay (ms) Universiti Negeri Michigan		40.6467
8	Persian (fa) دانشگاه ایالتی میشیگان		40.215
9	Polish (pl) Uniwersytet Stanu Michigan		36.9247
10	Armenian (hy) Միչիգանի պետական համալսարան		36.5755

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Michigan State University		6 358 701
2	Chinese (zh) 密歇根州立大学		384 423
3	Japanese (ja) ミシガン州立大学		332 997
4	German (de) Michigan State University		185 822
5	Korean (ko) 미시간 주립 대학교		124 970
6	Spanish (es) Universidad Estatal de Míchigan		101 902
7	Russian (ru) Университет штата Мичиган		81 210
8	French (fr) Université d'État du Michigan		79 998
9	Persian (fa) دانشگاه ایالتی میشیگان		59 116
10	Italian (it) Università statale del Michigan		48 408

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Michigan State University		13 081
2	Chinese (zh) 密歇根州立大学		1 092
3	Japanese (ja) ミシガン州立大学		699
4	Korean (ko) 미시간 주립 대학교		543
5	German (de) Michigan State University		319
6	Spanish (es) Universidad Estatal de Míchigan		165
7	Russian (ru) Университет штата Мичиган		151
8	Persian (fa) دانشگاه ایالتی میشیگان		137
9	French (fr) Université d'État du Michigan		123
10	Italian (it) Università statale del Michigan		97

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Michigan State University		1 221
2	German (de) Michigan State University		98
3	French (fr) Université d'État du Michigan		73
4	Japanese (ja) ミシガン州立大学		72
5	Chinese (zh) 密歇根州立大学		59
6	Italian (it) Università statale del Michigan		40
7	Russian (ru) Университет штата Мичиган		33
8	Korean (ko) 미시간 주립 대학교		24
9	Danish (da) Michigan State University		23
10	Persian (fa) دانشگاه ایالتی میشیگان		23

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Michigan State University		7
2	Arabic (ar) جامعة ميشيغان الحكومية		1
3	Japanese (ja) ミシガン州立大学		1
4	Korean (ko) 미시간 주립 대학교		1
5	Russian (ru) Университет штата Мичиган		1
6	Turkish (tr) Michigan Eyalet Üniversitesi		1
7	Azerbaijani (az) Miçiqan Ştat Universiteti		0
8	Belarusian (be) Мічыганскі дзяржаўны ўніверсітэт		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Университет на щата Мичиган		0
10	Catalan (ca) Universitat Estatal de Michigan		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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