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Detroit Free Press

Michigan State ranked 18th in the nation in total athletic division earnings for the 2018-19 school year among Division I schools, according to The university’s annual database funds USA Today.

MSU’s $ 140,010,865 total revenue was sixth among Big Ten schools, behind Ohio State (third), Michigan (fourth), Penn State (sixth), Wisconsin (11th), and Iowa (14th).

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The Spartans’ total spending of $ 135,655,750 was 19th nationally and also the fifth of the Big Ten schools behind those others.

USA TODAY, which released its annual database on Thursday, compiled the financial data in conjunction with Syracuse University’s SI Newhouse School of Public Communications.

MSU received $ 75,952,340 in rights / license fees in 2018-19, up over $ 2.4 million from the previous school year. It helped offset the ticket revenues that dropped nearly $ 8.5 million from 2017-18 last year to $ 28,019,480.

The track and field department received $ 1,360,690 in school funds, which received both direct and indirect support from the university, including government funds, tuition, tuition fee waivers, etc., as well as federal work study fees for students employed by the track and field department.

MSU had also reported $ 11,099,070 in other earnings, including game guarantees, bowl game earnings, third-party support guaranteed by the school, such as TV earnings, housing benefit, etc .; income from sports camps; income from athletic limited gifts and investments used in the year under review.

This includes $ 885,690 in allocated funds that account for $ 475,000 that the athletics department transferred back to the school and – under a 2015 change to the NCAA’s reporting system – are recorded as a loss of income. This transfer amount may not exceed the amount the department received from study and direct institutional support costs: $ 524,580.

Among MSU expenses, coaching and staff salaries were $ 45,124,362, facilities and overheads were $ 28,914,658, and scholarships were $ 16,907,149. It also spent $ 44,709,571 on other things, such as guarantees paid to other schools; school-specific expenses for bowl games other than bonuses paid to football coaches in connection with a bowl game; recruitment; team trips; equipment and uniforms; match day and camp costs; fundraising and marketing expenses; support of spiritual groups; medical costs / insurance; conference costs; the value of support provided by the university, such as administrative services, facilities and site maintenance, security, risk management, utilities, depreciation, and debt service that are not charged to the Athletics Department.

As of 2016, it also includes meals and snacks for athletes not provided for in regular board plans and during team trips.

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