10 Reasons to Attend MSU
Page address: http://sbs.mnsu.edu/agingstudies/resources/attendmsu.html- MSU offers many other excellent graduate programs that would be of interest if you're coming with a spouse, partner or friend.
- Mankato is a wonderful community to live in. It is also an excellent place to raise a family.
- Child care is readily available in the community and on campus.
- We're an hour and a half away from Minneapolis/St. Paul when you crave a big city.
- Minnesota State University's theater is one of the best college groups in the country. It offers both a winter and summer season of plays. There is also a more experimental theater and a community theater.
- Mankato has a wonderful symphony orchestra and the university has a number of excellent musical groups.
- Full or part-time jobs are readily available in the community. The unemployment rate is extremely low.
- The outdoors person will find it all- hiking, biking, cross-country skiing and snowmobile trails, lakes in abundance for the fisher or boating enthusiast, prime hunting, a downhill ski slope, ice skating rinks and a variety of athletic fields, parks and other recreation.
- The Minnesota State University Mavericks have outstanding teams in both men's and women's sports.
- The Midwest Wireless Civic Center in Mankato is the premier entertainment center in southern Minnesota. The Civic Center presents events such as concerts, sporting events, rodeos and more!