The Pack is Back and Smarter Than Ever

Greater than 7,000 college students have arrived on Michigan Tech’s campus to begin the autumn
semester, together with the second-largest class of incoming first-year Huskies since 1984.

Following final 12 months’s record-breaking enrollment, Michigan Technological College
welcomed 7,073 college students to campus this fall, together with 1,388 incoming first-year college students. John Lehman, vice chairman for college relations and enrollment, mentioned final 12 months’s class of latest first-year college students and this 12 months’s class signify the 2 largest
since 1984. He additionally famous that the common GPA of three.83 for this 12 months’s incoming class is a brand new College file. General
enrollment grew 1%.

“We’re so happy to welcome another talented group of students to Michigan Tech,” mentioned Lehman. “Over the course of the day first-year college students transfer
in, I ask them and their mother and father, ‘Why Tech?’ I heard it is the standard of school
and the chance to work intently with them from day one. I heard they need the
rigorous academic challenge and the preparation that have gives. And naturally I heard they need the
excessive wage presents that our levels command within the employment market.”

Greater than 2,100 of Michigan Tech’s present college students are girls, persevering with a decade of regular enhance within the quantity
of girls choosing Tech. Ladies will make up practically 30% of the scholar physique — the College’s
highest proportion ever. 

And for the third straight 12 months, the proportion of scholars from home underrepresented
minority teams grew and now make up over 11.5% of the scholar physique.

To Vice President for Pupil Affairs and Dean of Students Wallace Southerland III, these numbers recommend encouraging developments. “As soon as once more, Tech’s enrollment numbers reveal what we already know to be true — that Michigan Tech is a flagship technological college the place college students of all backgrounds
need to be. We provide distinctive tutorial packages taught by superior college and
we provide terribly wonderful pupil improvement experiences at an inexpensive
value for households.”

“The standard of the lecturers we provide and the unique life experience that Huskies get whereas they’re at Tech proceed to draw a pupil physique that’s
exceptionally sensible and more and more various.”Wallace Southerland III, Vice President for Pupil Affairs and Dean of College students

Of the College’s 5 faculties, none is rising quicker than the College of Computing. “The demand for computing expertise within the tech business has by no means been stronger,”
mentioned Dennis Livesay, dean of the School of Computing. “Our faculty’s development displays
that demand. We’re thrilled to offer the standard of schooling that our college students
want for achievement within the twenty first century workforce.” 

The College of Engineering has been Michigan Tech’s most distinguished faculty for a lot of generations, and its status
for producing a number of the world’s most profitable engineers continues to thrive. Applications
seeing will increase in enrollment this 12 months embody geological engineering, geospatial
engineering and mechanical engineering know-how. Enrollment in robotics engineering
has greater than doubled, and the grasp’s program in mechanical engineering has additionally seen vital development. Biomedical engineering continues its development within the variety of girls enrolled — practically
two-thirds of the incoming class of biomedical engineers are girls.

Janet Callahan, dean of the School of Engineering, believes the similar issues which have at all times made Tech’s engineering packages distinctive are lining
up with what college students need in a university schooling. “Engineering at Michigan Tech is exclusive as a result of our college students get rigorous teachers
in school rooms designed for experiential, hands-on studying,” she mentioned. “From their
first 12 months onward, our college students work intently with college, doing every little thing from constructing autonomous autos and vessels for unstructured environments to devising know-how to help life on the moon.” 

“Our alumni know the worth of the real-world schooling we provide our college students, and
so do employers. That is why our graduates have thrilling, well-paying jobs ready for them on the day they get their diplomas.”Janet Callahan, Dean of the School of Engineering

Right now’s college students need their cash’s price from faculty, and Michigan Tech continues
to be a superb worth. The median MTU graduate earns $73,500 early of their working life — a quantity that ranks Tech within the prime 20 public establishments
nationwide for return on funding. 

After receiving a file variety of functions from potential graduate college students,
Michigan Tech’s graduate faculty will welcome its largest incoming class since 2018.
Affiliate provost and dean of the graduate faculty Will Cantrell says that overall graduate faculty enrollment is up greater than 10% from final 12 months. With greater than
100 packages supplied, the graduate faculty noticed a rise in curiosity from college students
throughout the geographic spectrum, together with Michigan residents, non-residents and worldwide
college students. Cantrell was particularly inspired by the numerous surge in curiosity
this 12 months from college students from nations in central and western Africa, particularly Ghana
and Nigeria. 

“College students are coming to Michigan Tech, to Houghton, from all around the world,” mentioned
Cantrell. “And lots of of them are surmounting vital obstacles to get right here as a result of
they acknowledge the worth of a Michigan Tech graduate diploma. I do know that seems like
a platitude, but it surely’s the reality. After we pitch our packages to potential college students,
we’ve a reasonably straightforward job, as a result of they know a grad diploma from Michigan Tech means
a lot.”

Whereas many graduate packages have seen will increase in enrollment, none has seen extra year-over-year proportion development than the health informatics program. Housed within the School of Computing’s Department of Applied Computing, well being informatics grew from 9 college students enrolled in fall 2021 to 36 college students
this fall, a four-fold enhance. Program director Man Hembroff mentioned the necessity for superior information science strategies to precisely predict
and assist remedy international biomedical points has made the sphere of well being informatics each
engaging and more and more essential.

“Our program has not too long ago seen a rise in college students — a lot of whom are worldwide
college students — who’ve scientific coaching and work expertise as medical medical doctors, dentists,
pharmacists, nurses or bodily therapists,” mentioned Hembroff. “They arrive to Michigan
Tech looking for well being informatics experience that may enhance each their scientific decision-making
and outcomes for his or her sufferers.”

“Our graduates are educated problem-solvers prepared to satisfy the healthcare business’s
want for specialists in information analytics, cybersecurity, public well being, distant affected person monitoring
and synthetic intelligence.”Man Hembroff, Affiliate Professor and Director of the Well being Informatics Program

With health-related STEM fields on campus attracting extra college students than ever, Michigan
Tech is making ready to satisfy the demand. In April, the College broke floor on the
new H-STEM Engineering and Well being Applied sciences Complicated, or H-STEM Complex. Scheduled for completion in fall 2024, the H-STEM Complicated would be the hub of health-related research and schooling on campus, the place multidisciplinary groups will collaborate in shared,
versatile lab areas on work to enhance human well being and high quality of life.

Michigan Technological College is a public analysis college based in 1885 in Houghton, Michigan, and is residence to greater than 7,000 college students from 55 nations around the globe. Persistently ranked among the many finest universities within the nation for return on funding, the College presents greater than 125 undergraduate and graduate diploma packages in science and know-how, engineering, computing, forestry, enterprise and economics, well being professions, humanities, arithmetic, social sciences, and the humanities. The agricultural campus is located simply miles from Lake Superior in Michigan’s Higher Peninsula, providing year-round alternatives for outside journey.