The Michigan Economic Development Corporation is a public-private partnership serving as the state's marketing arm and lead agency for business, talent and jobs, tourism, film and digital incentives, arts and cultural grants, and overall economic growth. MEDC offers a number of business assistance services and capital programs for business attraction and acceleration, economic gardening, entrepreneurship, strategic partnerships, talent enhancement and urban and community development. MEDC, founded in 1999, also developed and manages the state's popular Pure Michigan brand.

IT Services is MSU's central IT unit, part of the Libraries, Computing and Technology division. It was reorganized in 2012.

NASA's vision: To reach for new heights and reveal the unknown so that what we do and learn will benefit all humankind.

The Management Education Center is a full service conference center located in Southeast Michigan 20 miles north of Detroit. The Center is available for business meetings, receptions and private functions.

The Center's meeting facilities provide a first-class, professional environment for conferences, meetings and training programs. The formal dining room, dramatic lobby and outdoor patio area also provide a perfect setting for dinners, cocktail receptions and other social functions.

International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) is a set of United States government regulations that control the export and import of defense-related articles and services on the United States Munitions List (USML)

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a private, non-profit society of distinguished scholars engaged in scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the public good.

The Council of Graduate Students is an authorized student government on campus representing graduate/professional students.

An IRB is an institutional review board, established to review proposed human subject research.  The IRB may approve, require modifications in (to secure approval), or disapprove research. At MSU, all human subject research (regardless of funding) must be reviewed and approved by an IRB before initiation.

The Council on Governmental Relations is an association of research universities located in the District of Columbia.

Michigan Center for Industrial and Applied Mathematics aims to address the scientific and educational challenges offered by these scientific developments, particularly focusing on targeted industrial collaborations. The goals of the Center are three-fold:

• To develop and coordinate contact intensive partnerships with targeted industries.
• To foster interdisciplinary research activity within MSU, highlighting the interplay between novel computational algorithms and mathematical modeling, as complementary avenues to theory and experiments.
• To provide interdisciplinary graduate education and postdoctoral research opportunities.