Michigan Tech
Michigan Tech enrolls more than 7,000 undergraduate and graduate students from across the nation and around the world. Our faculty explore the boundaries of knowledge while mentoring students to become citizens who will improve our world.
The campus, situated along the Keweenaw Waterway, is small enough to walk across in a few minutes, and most classrooms are located close to the residence halls. The campus is completely wireless and features state-of-the-art facilities that are constantly being upgraded.
Michigan Tech offers more than 130 degree programs in engineering; forest resources; computing; technology; business; economics; natural, physical and environmental sciences; arts; humanities; and social sciences. Michigan Tech has national top-10 enrollments in environmental engineering, mechanical engineering, and materials science and engineering programs and one of the nation's largest programs in scientific and technical communication.
US News & World Report has ranked Michigan Tech in the top tier of national universities, and our environmental engineering program are ranks 15th, and materials science and engineering ranks 17th. US News ranked three of our graduate engineering programs in the top 50 nationally. Tech is also rated highly for academics, career preparation, and quality of life in the Princeton Review's Best 371 Colleges 2010 Edition. Student comments in the Princeton Review also cited the University for its library, career services, and computer and athletic facilities, including: "Tech offers a real hands-on learning experience, not only in the classroom but in life."
Academics
The quality of a Michigan Tech education is best illustrated by the accomplishments of our students. While taking second place in the 2009 SAE Supermileage competition, Tech students topped 1,000 mpg. Our mini-baja team won the three-part 2009 Baja SAE collegiate design competition. Michigan Tech hosts the Clean Snowmobile Challenge every winter, and this year's sled narrowly finished out of first place and won the award for quietest sled. Computer science students finished sixth among US teams in the 2009 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest. Business students won the 2008 and 2007 annual RISE national stock investment competition in the value category.
Students from many majors work together on real-world industry projects as part of the Enterprise Program—from video games to alternate fuels, from robotics to nanotechnology. In just one example, a student from the Innovative Casting Enterprise (ICE) won a $25,000 scholarship from Ellwood Group, Inc., for specialty casting: producing low-count, high-quality, detailed parts.
The capstone Senior Design Project allows engineering students to research solutions to problems and present their findings at the end of their academic career. It is, in many ways, their first step toward becoming professionals.
Other students have analyzed sleep apnea at Mayo Clinic and have invented a better calendar for the iPhone.
In graduate education, our College of Engineering graduates a higher percentage of women with PhDs in engineering than any other engineering school in the nation.
Approximately 400 companies send recruiters to campus last academic year, seeking majors from every discipline, even in a tough job market. Each student will average seven job interviews before graduation. Overall job placement exceeds 95 percent.
Campus Life and the Keweenaw Peninsula
There are many ways to stay active and get involved at Michigan Tech. On-campus, the 600-acre recreational forest and Tech Trails are great for skiing, biking and jogging. Nearby, the University's eighteen-hole golf course and lighted ski hill challenge students and community members.
With more than 180 student organizations, students can find a group to lead, problems to solve, and teams to join.
Michigan Tech traditions include K-Day, which is an afternoon to celebrate the Keweenaw Peninsula and enjoy McLain State Park on the shores of Lake Superior, the world's largest freshwater lake. The Parade of Nations is a celebration (including food) of the nations of the world that have students, faculty and staff members at Michigan Tech. At Homecoming, students enjoy a football game, and various special events.
The biggest event is Winter Carnival, when massive snow statues emerge on campus and in the towns. Skits, a queen competition, first-class entertainment, ice hockey and thousands of visitors make this a great experience. Broomball is the biggest game on campus. Students slide around on ice rinks hitting a volleyball toward the net, and all the action is on our webcams!
The entire area is great for outdoor enthusiasts, with easy access to rivers, lakes, woods and trails. Also, downtown Houghton and Hancock (combined population 14,000) offer coffee shops, theaters, stores, restaurants and more. Major retailers are just outside of Houghton, a short drive or bus ride from campus.
All in all, it's a great combination: a world-class education in a beautiful location.
