Golf in East Lansing

East Lansing is the home of Michigan State University, one of America's great land-grant universities and the nation's first agricultural college, established here in 1855 before the founding of any other major American research university in the land-grant tradition. MSU's campus—with its Red Cedar River corridor, the natural beauty of its extensively landscaped grounds, and the Forest Akers golf complex that serves the university community—gives East Lansing an academic and natural character that the adjacent state capital of Lansing provides a complementary urban dimension to. The university's research programs, medical complex, and economic impact make the East Lansing-Lansing corridor one of Michigan's most significant metropolitan areas beyond the Detroit and Grand Rapids markets.