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Fact Sheet

Faculty

  • Tenured and tenure-track faculty: 328
  • Research faculty: 74

Students

  • Students enrolled
    • Bachelor’s: 5,120
    • Master’s: 1,243
    • Doctoral: 1,289

Alumni

  • The College has more than 60,000 living alumni including:
    • Larry Page, cofounder of Google
    • Tony Fadell, Apple iPod division senior vice president (leader of the team that created the iPod)
    • Chuck Vest, retired MIT president
    • Claude Shannon, the father of information theory
    • Alfred Worden, David Scott and James Irwin, who flew aboard Apollo 15

Departments

Rankings

Nearly all of U-M's 19 schools, colleges and divisions rank among the best in their fields, and Engineering is no exception. All of our graduate and undergraduate programs are highly ranked and have a strong reputation for excellence.

Michigan Engineering Rankings by Department

According to U.S. News & World Report, 2010

GraduateUndergraduate
Aerospace Engineering 5 3
Biomedical Engineering 12 11
Chemical Engineering 13 13
Civil Engineering 8 8
Computer Engineering N/A 8
Electrical Engineering 7 6
Environmental Engineering 6 7
Industrial and Operations Engineering 2 2
Materials Science and Engineering 6 5
Mechanical Engineering 5 5
Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences 1 N/A

Note: U.S. News did not rank Computer Engineering in the 2010 Graduate-level survey. It will return next year. U.S. News does not rate Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences or Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering

Budget

  • At more than $130 million annually, the College’s engineering research budget is one of largest of any public university in the nation.

History

  • The College was the first public engineering school in the country to grant a degree.
  • The first Michigan engineering building opened on campus in 1881.
  • The College offered its first automotive engineering class in 1913.
  • The nation’s first aeronautical engineering program started here in 1916.
  • In 1953, Nuclear Engineering offered the nation’s first graduate program in the field.
  • In 1957, College researchers created the first maser, the precursor to the laser.
  • In 1971, an all-Michigan crew took Apollo 15 to the moon.
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