University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

The University of Michigan is a public research university founded in Detroit in 1817, twenty years before Michigan became a state. It moved to Ann Arbor in 1837. It is the state's oldest university and the main campus of a system that also includes campuses in Dearborn and Flint. The Ann Arbor campus is split into Central Campus, North Campus, the medical campus and the athletic campus.

Ann Arbor has 19 schools and colleges. They include the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the College of Engineering, the Ross School of Business, the Law School, the Medical School, the School of Public Health, the Ford School of Public Policy and the School of Information. Michigan Medicine runs University Hospital and C.S. Mott Children's Hospital. The Institute for Social Research, founded in 1949, runs the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the Surveys of Consumers. Annual research spending is more than $1.5 billion.

The Ann Arbor campus enrolls more than 50,000 students, and about a third of them are in graduate and professional programs. International students from more than 100 countries make up roughly 15 percent of enrollment. Alumni include President Gerald Ford, Google co-founder Larry Page and playwright Arthur Miller.

The Rackham Graduate School runs doctoral and most research master's programs. PhD students in most programs receive multiyear funding that combines fellowships with graduate student instructor or research assistant appointments. The professional schools award degrees such as the MBA, MPP, MPH and Master of Social Work, and many dual degrees span two schools. The calendar has fall and winter semesters followed by spring and summer half-terms. Ann Arbor is a college town of about 120,000 people, some 45 miles west of Detroit.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor lists 317 graduate programs across 54 subjects: 165 master's programs and 132 doctoral programs, with the widest choice in music, education and biology. University of Michigan–Ann Arbor holds rank 19 in the GSN Overall University Ranking.