Michigan State University - The National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory features one of the world's most powerful instruments of its type
Michigan offers a number of public universities across the state and numerous private colleges. Michigan State University has the eighth largest campus population of any US school. Seven of the state universities-Central Michigan University, the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Michigan Technological University, Oakland University, Wayne State University, and Western Michigan University-are considered by the Carnegie Foundation to be research universities