Academic Advising Resources

Academic Advising is available for all undergraduate students.  Click on your college below to schedule an appointment with an advisor in your College or visit student.msu.edu to schedule an appointment today.

• College of Agriculture and Natural Resources

  Majors:

  • Agribusiness Management
  • Agriculture Food and Natural Resources Education
  • Animal Science
  • Construction Management
  • Crop and Soil Sciences
  • Dietetics
  • Entomology
  • Environmental Economics and Management
  • Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  • Fisheries and Wildlife
  • Food Industry Management
  • Food Science
  • Forestry
  • Horticulture
  • Interior Design
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Packaging
  • Sustainable Parks
  • Recreation and Tourism.

   

  You don’t have to navigate your degree alone! The College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (CANR) has a team of experienced advisors who can help guide you through a major to graduation. Learn more here: https://www.canr.msu.edu/academics/undergraduate/undergraduate_advisors/

   

  College Specific Notes and Contacts

  • Bailey Scholars Program: Dustin Petty pettydus@msu.edu, 517-432-0732
  • Residential Initiative on the Study of the Environment (RISE): Laurie Thorp, thorpl@msu.edu, 517-432-4944
  • Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems: Julie Cotton, cottonj@msu.edu, 517-353-0156
• College of Arts and Letters

  Majors:

  • African American and African Studies
  • Apparel and Textile Design
  • Apparel and Textiles
  • Arabic
  • Art Education
  • Art History and Visual Culture
  • Chinese
  • English
  • Experience Architecture
  • Film Studies
  • French
  • German
  • Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities
  • Graphic Design
  • Humanities - Prelaw Program
  • Interdisciplinary Humanities
  • Japanese
  • Linguistics
  • Philosophy
  • Professional and Public Writing
  • Religious Studies
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Studio Art - Bachelor of Arts
  • Studio Art - Bachelor of Fine Arts
  • Theatre - Bachelor of Arts
  • Theatre - Bachelor of Fine Arts
  • Women's and Gender Studies

   

  Please set up an appointment to meet with your advisor through the Student Information System at https://student.msu.edu. More details can be found here: https://cal.msu.edu/current-students/advising/

• Burgess Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

  Advising is available for both the Minor in Entrepreneurship & Innovation as well as for students interested in Venture Creation and exploring business ideas. Contact Desireé Melfi Bozzo, melfides@msu.edu, via https://calendly.com/desireemelfibozzo for an appointment.

• Eli Broad College of Business and The Eli Broad Graduate School of Management

  Majors:

  • Accounting
  • Finance
  • Hospitality Business
  • Human Resource Management
  • Management
  • Marketing
  • Supply Chain Management

   

  Students should continue to use https://student.msu.edu/splash.html for scheduling any advising appointments. More details can be found here: https://broad.msu.edu/undergraduate/advising/

• College of Communication Arts and Sciences

  Majors:

  • Advertising Creative
  • Advertising Management
  • Communication
  • Journalism
  • Media and Information

   

  Students should continue to use https://student.msu.edu/splash.html to schedule advising appointments. More details, including information about remote Express Advising, are available here: https://comartsci.msu.edu/advising

   

• College of Education

  Majors:

  • Athletic Training
  • Elementary Education
  • Kinesiology
  • Secondary Education
  • Special Education

   

  Students should continue to use https://student.msu.edu/splash.html for scheduling any advising appointments. More details are also available here: https://education.msu.edu/resources/students/student-affairs/

• College of Engineering

  Majors:

  • Applied Engineering Sciences
  • Biosystems Engineering
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Civil Engineering
  • Computational Data Science
  • Computer Engineering
  • Computer Science
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Engineering Exploratory
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Materials Science and Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering

   

  Students should continue to use https://student.msu.edu/splash.html for scheduling any advising appointments. More details are also available here: https://www.egr.msu.edu/academics/undergraduate/advisors 

• Honors College

  Students should continue to use https://student.msu.edu/splash.html for scheduling any advising appointments. More details are also available here: https://honorscollege.msu.edu/about/advising.html

• James Madison College

  Students should continue to use https://student.msu.edu/splash.html for scheduling any advising appointments. More details are also available here: https://jmc.msu.edu/current-students/academics/advising.html

• Lyman Briggs College

  Students should continue to use https://student.msu.edu/splash.html for scheduling any advising appointments. More details are also available here: https://lbc.msu.edu/advising/index.html

• College of Music

  Students should continue to use https://student.msu.edu/splash.html for scheduling any advising appointments. More details are also available here: https://www.music.msu.edu/information-for-students/for-undergraduate-students/undergraduate-academic-advising4

• College of Natural Science

  Majors:

  • Actuarial Science
  • Astrophysics
  • Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  • Biochemistry and Molecular Biology/Biotechnology
  • Biological Science-Interdepartmental
  • Biomedical Laboratory Science
  • Chemical Physics
  • Chemistry - Bachelor of Arts
  • Chemistry - Bachelor of Science
  • Clinical Laboratory Sciences (this program is in moratorium effective Summer 2018 through Fall 2020)
  • Computational Mathematics - Bachelor of Arts
  • Computational Mathematics - Bachelor of Science
  • Data Science
  • Environmental Biology/Microbiology
  • Environmental Biology/Plant Biology
  • Environmental Biology/Zoology
  • Environmental Geosciences
  • Genomics and Molecular Genetics
  • Geological Sciences
  • Human Biology
  • Integrative Biology - Bachelor of Science
  • Mathematics - Bachelor of Arts
  • Mathematics - Bachelor of Science
  • Mathematics
  • Advanced - Bachelor of Arts
  • Mathematics
  • Advanced - Bachelor of Science
  • Medical Laboratory Science
  • Microbiology
  • Neuroscience
  • Physical Science – Interdepartmental
  • Physics - Bachelor of Arts
  • Physics - Bachelor of Science
  • Physiology
  • Plant Biology
  • Quantitative Risk Analytics
  • Statistics (Bachelor of Arts)
  • Statistics (Bachelor of Science)
  • Zoology - Bachelor of Arts
  • Zoology - Bachelor of Science

   

  Students should continue to use https://student.msu.edu/splash.html for scheduling any advising appointments. More details are also available here: https://natsci.msu.edu/students/current-students/undergraduate/advising/

• Exploratory Preference Major and Exploratory Advising

  The University Advising Academic Advisor provides one-on-one academic advisement for primarily first and second year students at MSU who are declared as exploratory preference majors. Additionally, advisors serve all MSU students who are exploring alternate or additional majors/careers or have general advising questions. It is recommended that you see an Academic Advisor twice a semester in order to be successful and to stay on track to graduating on time. Learn more at advising.msu.edu/exploratory-pref-major.

• College of Nursing

  Students should continue to use https://student.msu.edu/splash.html for scheduling any advising appointments. More details are also available here: https://nursing.msu.edu/student-resources/overview

• Residential College in the Arts and Humanities

  Students should continue to use https://student.msu.edu/splash.html for scheduling any advising appointments. More details are also available here: https://rcah.msu.edu/current-students/advising/index.html

• College of Social Science

  All students should visit the website of their respective major, linked below, for advising appointment instructions and advisor contact information.

  Majors:

  • Anthropology - Bachelor of Arts
  • Anthropology - Bachelor of Science
  • Child Development - Bachelor of Arts
  • Criminal Justice
  • Early Care and Education
  • Economic Geography
  • Economics - Bachelor of Arts
  • Economics - Bachelor of Science
  • Environmental Geography
  • Geographic Information Science
  • Global and International Studies in Social Science
  • Global History
  • History
  • History Education
  • Human Capital and Society
  • Human Development and Family Studies - Bachelor of Arts
  • Human Development and Family Studies - Bachelor of Science
  • Human Geography
  • Interdisciplinary Studies in Social Science - Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science
  • Social Science Education - Bachelor of Arts
  • Political Science – General
  • Political Science – Prelaw
  • Psychology - Bachelor of Arts
  • Psychology - Bachelor of Science
  • Public Policy
  • Social Work
  • Sociology - Bachelor of Arts
  • Sociology - Bachelor of Science
  • Urban and Regional Planning
  • World Politics
• College of Veterinary Medicine

  Students should continue to use https://student.msu.edu/splash.html for scheduling any advising appointments. More details are also available here: https://cvm.msu.edu/future-students/undergraduate-programs/preveterinary-medicine/im-ready-to-learn-more/schedule-an-advising-appointment

Here is more information on the past Satisfactory/Not Satisfactory (S/NS) binary grade reporting option.