Michigan Technological University

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Michigan Technological University prepares students to create the future. At Michigan Tech, crazy smart students do. They invent, design, code, create and compete. Their discoveries make humans healthier and technology smarter.
Our mission to create a just, prosperous, and sustainable world is expressed through our entrepreneurial spirit—equal parts curiosity and grit. It infuses everything we do. The lifeblood for an MTU Husky? Battling the Northwind, trudging through 200 inches of snow each winter, and staying late in the lab to discover that one new piece of the puzzle. It's hard work that fuels us.
Michigan Tech is a globally recognized technological university that educates students, advances knowledge, and innovates to improve the quality of life and promote mutual respect and equity for all people within the state, the nation, and the global community. Create solutions for society's challenges by delivering action-based undergraduate and graduate education, discovering new knowledge through research, and launching new technologies through innovation.
Accomplish our mission through interdisciplinary education, research, and engagement with partners to advance sustainable economic prosperity, health and safety, ethical conduct, and responsible use of resources. Our specific focus is on education, scholarship, and people. This requires sufficient revenues from state, federal, corporate, and philanthropic sources.
Our seven Colleges and Schools develop, apply, and communicate science, engineering, technology, and mathematics in more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs. Diffy Q, Chem I, Thermo, Orgo—we don't do easy. Expert faculty-guided students in rigorous studies through deep engagement, design thinking, and leadership committed to STEM education's transformative power. We accelerate creativity, cultural competency, and critical thinking from bring-your-own-device active learning classrooms to arts and humanities curriculum.
Undergraduates' research opportunities begin right away. Through Enterprise, Senior Design, Pavlis Honors College, and The Alley maker space, students learn, build, and do. Michigan Tech creates the future. We turn recycled water bottles into plastic filament, wood scraps into doorknobs, and make hybrid solar energy accessible for Upper Michigan residents. We monitor volcanoes and work with residents on their slopes to create a two-way understanding of socioeconomic and environmental impacts.
Michigan Tech is not on the way to anywhere—and Huskies wouldn't have it any other way. When students are not in class or research, they participate in more than 220 student organizations, music and fine arts, and cultural events, including the Upper Peninsula of Michigan's largest multicultural festival, the Parade of Nations. Whether it's the All-Nighter frenzy to complete a Winter Carnival snow statue or chasing the Northern Lights right outside your dorm, there is a lot to do at MTU. Our 14 varsity athletic teams include our NCAA Division I men's ice hockey, NCAA Division II men's and women's sports, and intramurals (fact: one-third of MTU students play in broomball leagues). Go Huskies.
Our performing arts theatre, the Rozsa Center, can hold an audience of more than 1,000. Nearby McArdle Theatre hosts concerts, music festivals, and more. Hundreds of campus events take place throughout the year. Our 35km trail system, located right across the street from the Student Development Complex, is nationally recognized for quality, variety of terrain, and maintenance. This includes 7.5 km of lighted trail and year-round access to walking, running, biking, snowshoeing, cross country skiing, and snow biking. You will have countless choices for entertainment and to stay fit at Michigan Tech.
Winter Carnival snow statues. Lake Superior waves on K-Day. And home games with the loudest pep band in the nation. Each year Michigan Tech hosts numerous husky traditions involving students, faculty, staff, and even the local community. Check out the events calendar for what's next and plan your visit today.
Our beautiful campus in Michigan's Upper Peninsula overlooks the Keweenaw (say "Kee-Wah-Nah") Waterway and is just a few miles from Lake Superior. The area's waters, forests, and snowfall (218 inches annually) offer skiing, snowboarding, hiking, biking, and paddling opportunities. Historic downtown Houghton is active with locally owned shops, eateries, high-tech companies, music festivals, and parades. We embrace our size, climate, sense of adventure, and originality. Michigan Tech would not be the same anywhere else on earth—and we would not have it any other way.
Michigan Technological University is located in Houghton. Of the 30 safest college towns in America, Safewise says Michigan Tech is No. 19. The area is home to 12,000 residents and active with locally owned shops, eateries, high-tech companies, music festivals, and parades.
Faculty, students, staff, and the community enjoy the University-owned ski, snowboard, tubing hill, golf course, recreation trails, and other outdoor adventure opportunities the Keweenaw Peninsula offers.
From the depths of the world's largest freshwater lake by surface to 273,000 square feet of research space. From the first ideas scrawled on a whiteboard to licensed life-changing technologies. Clouds made to order, cold-weather performance testing, detecting vitamins in human tears— our proving grounds provide results. Research at Michigan Tech brings faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, community, government, and industrial partners together to create the future.
Michigan Technological University began as the Michigan Mining School in Houghton in 1885. Established by Michigan's state to train mining engineers to operate the local copper mines better, the school started with four faculty members and 23 students on the second floor of a building on Montezuma Avenue in Houghton. The building, operated as the Houghton Fire Hall for decades, is now a nightclub and restaurant.

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