Northern Michigan University

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Northern Michigan University, located in Marquette, Michigan, is a dynamic four-year, public, comprehensive university that has grown its reputation based on its award-winning leadership programs, cutting-edge technology initiatives, and nationally recognized academic programs.
Northern Michigan has a population of about 7,900 undergraduate and graduate students. It offers 177-degree programs, including 25 graduate programs.
The University has two semesters per year, a fall and winter semester, and two summer sessions. NMU is one of three Michigan public universities to serve a community college role for its region, which means the breadth of NMU's academic programs ranges from one-year diplomas through a doctorate. NMU began offering its first doctoral program – the Doctor of Nursing Practice – in fall 2014. NMU's most popular bachelor's degrees are art and design, nursing, criminal justice, elementary education, and biology. The University's fastest-growing academic areas are clinical science, biology, and the geographical and environmental sciences.
Some of the NMU degree programs to receive national or international recognition in recent years have been art and design, business, computer science, education, English, and nursing. Some unique aspects of Northern's academic menu include being the only University to offer five national Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Science accredited programs in the United States and one of three universities nationwide with both diagnostic molecular science and cytogenetics programs. NMU is one of only two Michigan universities to have an entrepreneurship major. It also has one of the few programs in the country for both ski management and wildland firefighting. Programs that boast 90 percent placement rate or higher are business, clinical sciences, engineering technology, music education, line and power technician, and theater, as well as our pre-medical and pre-dental students for professional school admittance.
More than 75 percent of NMU's 300-plus full-time faculty members have doctorates or the highest degree in their fields. A hallmark of the NMU experience is that full-time faculty members teach at all levels - freshmen through graduate courses. NMU's 1,100 employees view helping students succeed as not only a university priority but a personal goal.
Over the past decade, Northern Michigan University has been selected for numerous international and national awards to use next-generation technology in the higher education setting.
NMU is one of the largest notebook computer campuses in the United States, with all full-time students receiving either a ThinkPad or MacBook as part of tuition. The University has been cited as one of the most wired and most densely wireless campuses in the country. Northern was the first U.S. university to own and operate a WiMAX (4G) network, which has now been converted to LTE and spans about 40 square miles. Northern's work with WiMAX technology was so innovative that it resulted in President Barack Obama choosing the NMU campus as the site to announce his national wireless initiative in 2011.
Northern's hometown of Marquette is a city of 20,000 residents located along Lake Superior's southern shore. Michigan's Upper Peninsula region is known for its safe, friendly, and natural environment. Marquette enjoys four distinct seasons celebrated by a wide variety of festivals and activities throughout the year. The Marquette community and Northern Michigan University are intricately intertwined, which adds to the vitality of the area and the opportunities available to NMU students.
NMU's 360-acre campus features 52 facilities, including the Seaborg Science Complex, a state-of-the-art venue with more than two dozen laboratories, and recently renovated Thomas Fine Arts and Art and Design buildings. NMU's campus also houses a university theater, an award-winning library, a university center, two art galleries, and a three-structure sports and recreation complex. One is the Superior Dome, the world's largest wooden dome. Students gain professional skills at NMU's three public broadcasting stations, WNMU-TV, WNMU-FM, and student radio WUPX, which greatly enhance the region with news, educational and cultural programming. The diversity of the U.P.'s geographical terrain serves the NMU community as an extensive outdoor classroom. The University also owns an 18-hole golf course and a large woodland area.
Northern Michigan University's distinctive academic and career programs are nurtured by exceptional teaching and extensive scholarship, creativity, and engagement opportunities. Our supportive, connected community empowers students, graduates, faculty, and staff to contribute to a diverse and sustainable world.
Northern Michigan University promotes an active environment to foster healthy minds and bodies, inspires innovation and inclusion through community engagement, and develops leaders capable of local and global impact.
Northern Michigan University strives to be an inclusive community where differences are recognized as assets of the institution, respected person attributes, and a valuable part of the university experience.
Northern Michigan University, by providing quality academic programs, strong student support, and extensive regional service for its stakeholders in the upper Midwest, challenges its students, faculty, staff, and alumni to strive for excellence, both inside and outside the classroom, and to become outstanding citizens and leaders. To accomplish this mission, Northern provides a supportive living and learning environment that includes high-caliber undergraduate and graduate programs, personal attention, extensive use of modern technology, and continuous improvement of curriculum and services through systematic assessment.
Challenging themselves and their students, Northern faculty and staff are dedicated to effective teaching and intellectual inquiry to including students as learning partners in their research, scholarship, and other professional activities and to advancing the University's roles as a service provider and as a cultural and recreational center in the Upper Peninsula.
Northern Michigan University students will study ethics, humanitarian values, and cultural awareness in a strong general education program and master specific knowledge in a significant career field. As graduates who are life-long learners, they will possess the skills and attitudes to succeed in a fast-paced, continually evolving, multi-cultural world. As alumni, they will be challenged to continue an NMU tradition that distinguishes themselves in their careers and communities.

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