American University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
College Description (College Ranking near bottom of listing)
The University of Michigan (UM or UMich), often simply referred to as Michigan, is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Michigan’s oldest University; it was founded in 1817 in Detroit. The school was moved to Ann Arbor in 1837 onto 40 acres of what is now known as Central Campus. Since its establishment in Ann Arbor, the flagship university campus has expanded to include more than 584 major buildings with a combined area of more than 34 million gross square feet spread out over a Central Campus and North Campus, two regional campuses in Flint and Dearborn, and a Center in Detroit.
Considered one of the foremost research universities in the United States, 25 Nobel Prize winners, 6 Turing Award winners and 1 Fields Medalist have been affiliated with the University of Michigan. Its comprehensive graduate program offers doctoral degrees in the humanities, social sciences, and STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) as well as professional degrees in architecture, business, medicine, law, pharmacy, nursing, social work, public health, and dentistry.
The University of Michigan
500 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
+1 (734) 764-1817