MSU research tops $100 million for first time

Research dollars at Montana State University reached $103 million for the fiscal year that ended June 30, creating a new record for the university, MSU officials announced this week.

"MSU has achieved a major milestone as a research university by surpassing $100 million in expenditures," said MSU vice president for research Tom McCoy. "For a campus of our size, this is an incredible testimonial to the superb quality of our faculty."

With roughly 13,000 students, MSU is considered a mid-sized public university with 826 instructional faculty. Its student-faculty ratio is 16 to 1, according to the MSU Office of Planning and Analysis.

The $103 million represents research expenditures, which are dollars spent to study topics ranging from fish to fuel cells. Expenditures indicate a campus’s volume of research by tracking what faculty, students and staff actually spend from their grants.

By Annette Trinity-Stevens, MSU News Service

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