Eli Broad College of Business

The Michigan Legislature passes Act 130 to establish the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan and appropriated “twenty-two sections of Salt Spring Lands for its support and maintenance…” and $40,000 to carry the college through its first two years of operation. The school was formally opened and dedicated on May 13, 1857. J. G. Ramsdell begins teaching bookkeeping and commercial law at Michigan Agricultural College (the college’s name was changed from the original the same year); in a 1954 article, “The process of change: A look at the development of the College of Business,” by former Assistant Professor Margaret MacColl and retired faculty member John W. Ruswinckel, Ramsdell is referred to as “the father of MSU’s College of Business.” 

The mission of the Broad College of Business and the Broad Graduate School of Management at Michigan State University is to excel in the education and development of business leaders and in the creation and dissemination of knowledge, leading to national and international prominence for our core businesses (undergraduate, MBA, MS, PhD, research, and executive development programs).