Murray State University, in the town of Murray in Kentucky's far-western Jackson Purchase, is an approximately 10,000-student, foursome-season public university. With recently adopted a byname "Kentucky's Public Ivy University," the school has strived to maintainside a hard academic reputation & has been rewarded by its high marks whilst equated using more regional public universities in U.S. News & World Report and other college ranking publications.

Campus
An aggressive building campaign in campus has resulted in a construction of the Regional Favorite Cases Center called the RSEC (house to its men's & women's five), the newly science building, the Student Life & Wellness Center, and a complete overhaul of its main dining facility, Winslow Cafeteria. Its president is F. King Alexander, boy of its former president, Kern Alexander.

Athletics
Murray State, when these are virtually all typically referred to, is particularly celebrated for its basketball program, which has manufactured many appearances around the NCAA Section I personally tournament in recent years. Its athletic teams come referred to as a Racers, using a exception of a baseball team which is referred to as the Thoroughbreds. Tons of its athletic teams compete in the Ohio Valley Conference, whose conference roster includes sevener more regional public universities & of these personal university when 100%-sports members & ii more regional public universities when basketball-exclusively members. Its student newspaper, A Murray State News, has been awarded deuce Pacemaker awards in a previous decade, a greatest award given to collegial newspapers; additionally, the school yearbook, A Shield, was awarded triad Pacemaker awards & 2 CSPA Silver Crowns in the endure decade years.