Michigan Technological University

Michigan Technological University is a public research university in Houghton, Michigan, on the Keweenaw Peninsula of Lake Superior. Founded in 1885 as the Michigan Mining School to train engineers for the Copper Country mines, it later became the Michigan College of Mining and Technology and took its present name in 1964. It remains a technical university on a campus of about 925 acres along Portage Lake.

Academic work runs through the College of Engineering, the College of Computing, the College of Sciences and Arts, the College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, and the College of Business. Graduate strength lies in mechanical, electrical, chemical, materials, civil, and geological engineering, as well as computer science, applied physics, and forestry. Research students use the Great Lakes Research Center, materials laboratories, and Upper Peninsula field sites.

About 7,000 students enroll, including roughly 1,400 graduate students and an international cohort from several dozen countries. Faculty number a few hundred. Alumni include Nobel chemist Melvin Calvin and entrepreneur Kanwal Rekhi.

Graduate study centers on thesis master's and doctoral degrees in engineering and the applied sciences, with some coursework master's. Supervision is through faculty laboratory groups on a semester calendar, and doctoral students are commonly funded by research assistantships. Houghton is a small college town with long winters; campus and the surrounding lake and forests shape daily life.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, Michigan Technological University lists 3 graduate programs across 3 subjects: 1 master's program and 2 doctoral programs, with the widest choice in civil engineering, materials science & engineering and mathematics.