Dear Students:
Welcome to a campus designed with you in mind. Michigan Tech is dedicated to providing exactly the kind of hands-on, practical education you need as you prepare to create your own future and a better future for Michigan, the nation, and the world.
Academically, we are responding to students’ changing educational interests and needs by adding new degrees, minors, certificate programs, and courses. Recent examples:
- Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and Electronic Media Performance
- Transatlantic dual master’s degree in forest resources and biotechnology
- Master of Science in Spatial Information Science
- Bachelor of Science in Construction Management
At Michigan Tech, learning is not limited to campus classrooms. The University’s D80 program provides a variety of exciting opportunities for study and service in other countries. And the Enterprise program offers hands-on experience working with industry to solve real-world problems.
Your physical surroundings—the classrooms, labs and study areas, residences and recreational facilities—also play a huge role in your college experience. New construction projects at Michigan Tech include:
- Apartment-style housing that will add 192 beds
- A Great Lakes Research Center that will make Michigan Tech the hub of interdisciplinary research and education focused on understanding and preserving one of the largest fresh-water supplies on earth
- A new design and office facility at the Keweenaw Research Center
- Remodeling of campus and off-campus academic and administrative buildings.
Another benefit of attending Tech is the opportunity to participate in the variety of activities that make a Michigan Tech education unique. One low Experience Tech fee covers your attendance at athletic events, arts, and entertainment on campus, use of recreational facilities at the Student Development Complex, and outdoor activities such as downhill and cross-country skiing and golf.
Michigan Tech is ranked in the top tier of US universities by US News and World Report. Its civil and environmental engineering program is ranked thirteenth in the nation. The School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science faculty ranked first among research universities for scholarly productivity last year, and the geological and mining engineering faculty ranked sixth.
I encourage you to take a tour of Michigan Tech, to see our facilities and meet our outstanding faculty members, whose first concern is helping you get a first-class education.
I wish you well!
Glenn D. Mroz,
President
