No schools are perfect, and anecdotes are just that — they are anecdotes. For every person who tells you a certain school is bad in a certain way, there may be several others who have good/great things to say, who you just have yet to meet. For example, you mentioned EMU and NMU in your reply. Now what if I tell you both schools have much smaller CS departments than MSU, which led to far fewer CS courses being offered each semester? Are you going to cross EMU and NMU off your list just because someone said so?
Of course not. I’m at best just a data point. In my case, though, the statement is easily verifiable by visiting each departmental website and count the CS faculty there (when a department is too small, it often combines professors from different areas into one larger group, at least on its website, so as to look “better”), or count the courses offered if such info happens to be available. Furthermore, EMU and NMU generally have students of lower caliber than MSU, and likely much lower caliber than you. As a result, professors there may cover less material, make the tests easier, etc., to cater to a weaker student body. You may not find your academic experience there to be satisfying.