Joseph A. Morgan assumed office as the 14th president on July 1, 2017.
=== Presidents ===
== Academics ==
Morehead State University is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. It offers over 212 degree programs at the two-year, four-year, and graduate levels through four colleges: Caudill College of Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences; Elmer R. Smith College of Business and Technology; Ernst & Sara Lane Volgenau College of Education; and College of Science. It was the first institution in Kentucky to offer a complete degree program online, the Master of Business Administration (MBA). MSU is one of five institutions in the U.S. with a bachelor's degree in space science. Over 74,000 persons have received degrees from MSU.
=== Rankings ===
The 2026 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Rankings listed Morehead State at 12th place among public "regional universities" in the South and 27th overall among all regional universities in the South.
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