Michigan Technological University — All Rankings Are Wrong

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Basic Information

Type Public

Geographical Reach Regional

Location Houghton, MI

Population 20,000

Website http://www.mtu.edu/

Weather

Comfortable Days 95 (20%) very dry

Sunshine Hours 2,150 (4% 🌧️)

Days Without Precipitation 204 (5% ☔)

Honors College

Name Pavlis Honors College

Students 400 (7%)

Demographics

Total Undergraduates 5,849

Men / Women 71% / 29%

From State 74%

From Region 21%

Athletes 6.6%

Racial/Ethnic

White 82%

Hispanic 3%

Mixed 3%

Asian 2%

Native American 1%

Black 1%

International 1%

Men in the Entering Class

Men

Entering Class by Race & Ethnicity

Native Asian Black Hispanic White International

Share of the full-time first-time degree-seeking cohort. Groups IPEDS reports separately — two or more races, and race unknown — are left out, so the lines don't sum to 100%.

Enrolled Undergraduates by Race & Ethnicity

Native Asian Black Hispanic White International

Share of all full-time degree-seeking undergraduates, not just the entering class. Same excluded groups as above.

IPEDS Admissions (2011–2024), Graduation Rates (2011–2024) and 12-month Enrollment (2020–2025) surveys. Years a college didn't file leave a gap in the line.

Schools & Majors

⇅	Degrees	Male/Female	Intl	Earnings	ROI	Employment
Michigan Technological University	1,293	70% / 30%	1%	$85,501	87	96%
Biomedical Engineering	53 —	28% / 72%	0%	$94,948	93	93%
Chemical Engineering	75 —	63% / 37%	0%	$95,894	94	94%
Civil Engineering	65 —	71% / 29%	0%	$85,913	88	94%
Computer Engineering	57 +6	86% / 14%	0%	$106,475	97	97%
Electrical Engineering	94 +4	89% / 11%	2%	$101,291	96	96%
Engineering Physics	6 —	83% / 17%	0%	$98,532	95	—
Environmental Engineering	48 —	44% / 56%	0%	$78,540	82	92%
General Engineering	5 —	60% / 40%	0%	$94,863	93	—
Geological Engineering	6 —	67% / 33%	0%	$80,804	84	100%
Materials Engineering	25 —	64% / 36%	0%	$82,482	85	97%
Mechanical Engineering	223 —	83% / 17%	0%	$91,269	91	98%
Mining Engineering	4 —	75% / 25%	0%	$88,517	89	—
Robotics Engineering	18 +1	83% / 17%	0%	$91,748	91	—
Surveying Engineering	10 —	90% / 10%	0%	$86,818	88	—
Computer Science	81 —	90% / 10%	2%	$104,446	97	97%
Computer Software Engineering	32 +1	81% / 19%	0%	$106,475	97	97%
Cybersecurity	29 +1	79% / 21%	0%	$89,704	90	100%
Mathematics and Computer Science	2 —	50% / 50%	0%	$101,443	96	—
Network Administration	7 —	100% / 0%	0%	$89,704	90	100%
Chemistry	6 —	67% / 33%	0%	$62,511	54	—
Geophysics and Seismology	2 —	50% / 50%	0%	$62,597	54	—
Geosciences	5 —	80% / 20%	0%	$62,742	55	—
Mathematics	12 +4	75% / 25%	0%	$80,366	83	87%
Physics	6 —	100% / 0%	0%	$74,652	77	—
Statistics	4 +5	75% / 25%	0%	$88,488	89	—
Biochemistry	9 —	56% / 44%	0%	$58,626	43	—
Bioinformatics	— —	—	—	$58,885	44	—
Biology	6 +1	50% / 50%	0%	$46,449	12	100%
Cheminformatics	— —	—	—	$62,171	53	—
Computational Biology	3 —	67% / 33%	0%	$60,078	48	—
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology	11 —	64% / 36%	0%	$54,793	32	—
Human Biology	10 —	10% / 90%	0%	$61,603	52	—
Environmental Science	24 —	29% / 71%	0%	$55,388	34	—
Forestry	24 —	88% / 12%	0%	$62,355	54	100%
Natural Resources Management	1 —	100% / 0%	0%	$56,624	37	—
Wildlife Management	23 +2	43% / 57%	0%	$38,444	4	100%
Clinical Laboratory Science	19 —	21% / 79%	0%	$66,170	63	95%
Exercise Science	20 —	50% / 50%	5%	$61,825	52	100%
Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry	2 —	100% / 0%	0%	$114,802	99	—
Nursing	6 —	50% / 50%	0%	$82,774	85	—
Accounting	19 +4	47% / 53%	0%	$72,114	74	100%
Business Administration	12 —	67% / 33%	8%	$75,985	79	93%
Business Analytics	1 —	0% / 100%	0%	—	—	—
Economics	3 +1	67% / 33%	0%	$83,586	86	—
Engineering Management	27 —	85% / 15%	4%	$92,718	92	100%
Finance	17 +6	82% / 18%	6%	$88,941	90	—
Management Information Systems	14 +4	71% / 29%	0%	$86,460	88	100%
Marketing	12 +2	50% / 50%	25%	$61,972	53	90%
Sports Management	3 —	33% / 67%	0%	$61,825	52	100%
Anthropology	2 —	50% / 50%	0%	$50,862	21	—
Applied Psychology	5 —	60% / 40%	20%	$50,366	19	—
Applied/Public Sociology	2 —	0% / 100%	0%	—	—	—
Communication	5 —	40% / 60%	0%	$57,090	39	—
English	5 —	40% / 60%	0%	$48,404	15	—
History	2 +1	100% / 0%	0%	$50,394	20	—
Psychology	14 +1	14% / 86%	0%	$42,146	7	93%
Social Sciences	5 —	40% / 60%	0%	$50,695	20	—
Sustainability Studies	9 —	11% / 89%	0%	$59,214	45	—
Technical Communication	5 —	20% / 80%	0%	$59,489	46	—
Recording Arts Technology	7 —	86% / 14%	0%	$53,685	28	—
Sound Arts	5 —	80% / 20%	0%	$42,717	7	—
Theatre Design and Technology	1 —	0% / 100%	0%	$43,199	8	—
Visual and Performing Arts	1 —	0% / 100%	0%	$44,016	9	—
Construction Management	21 —	90% / 10%	0%	$88,429	89	—
Electrical Engineering Technology	9 —	78% / 22%	0%	$85,329	87	—
Mechanical Engineering Technology	44 —	84% / 16%	0%	$84,671	87	98%
Mechatronics Engineering Technology	10 —	80% / 20%	0%	$84,647	87	—

Financial

In-State Tuition & Fees $20,906

Out-of-State Tuition & Fees $47,749

Est. In-State Cost $27,044

Est. Out-of-State Cost $61,768

ROI Percentile 87th

Retention & Graduation

Full-Time Retention 89%

4-Year Graduation Rate 37%

6-Year Graduation Rate 68%

Transfer-Out Rate 19%

Six-Year Graduation Rate

Graduated

Students finishing within 150% of normal time. Each year labels the cohort that entered six years earlier — 2024 tracks the class that started in 2018.

Six-Year Graduation Rate by Gender

Men Women

IPEDS reports the cohort as men and women only.

Six-Year Graduation Rate by Race & Ethnicity

White International

Each group's completers over its own share of the entering cohort. Groups making up less than 2% of everyone this college graduated over the period are left off — their rates swing on a handful of students and read as noise.

IPEDS Graduation Rates survey, 2011–2024. Years a college didn't file leave a gap in the line.

Earnings by Major Category

Each major category's degree-weighted estimated median 5-year earnings at this college, expressed as a z-score against the national degree-weighted distribution for that category. 0 is the national average. The shaded band between +1.28 and −1.28 marks the central 80% of the national distribution (10th–90th percentile).

Academics

⇅	%	Degrees	Male/Female	Intl	Earnings	ROI	Employment
Engineering	53.3%	689	73% / 27%	0%	$92,900	92	96%
Computer Science	11.7%	151	86% / 14%	1%	$101,322	96	98%
Business & Economics	8.4%	108	68% / 32%	6%	$81,194	84	98%
Professional	6.5%	84	85% / 15%	0%	$85,678	87	98%
Agriculture & Food Science	5.6%	72	54% / 46%	0%	$52,315	25	100%
Humanities & Social Sciences	4.2%	54	30% / 70%	2%	$51,071	21	93%
Health Sciences	3.6%	47	40% / 60%	2%	$68,510	67	97%
Life & Natural Sciences	3.0%	39	46% / 54%	0%	$56,547	37	100%
Physical Sciences & Math	2.7%	35	77% / 23%	0%	$73,721	76	87%
Arts	1.1%	14	71% / 29%	0%	$48,328	15	—

Research R1

⇅	Research $	Rank	Federal	Industry $	PhDs	Rank	PhD students	Postdocs
Engineering	$55.6M	#95	48%	$4.2M	38	#90	243	14
Physical Sciences & Math	$24.4M	#115	68%	$0.8M	25	#107	115	12
Computer Science	$10.0M	#89	71%	$0.1M	4	#152	24	—
Agriculture & Food Science	$7.5M	#81	46%	$0.7M	4	#81	34	—
Humanities & Social Sciences	$2.9M	#239	14%	$0	13	#218	9	—
Life & Natural Sciences	$1.9M	#262	40%	$0	2	#219	35	1
Business & Economics	$1.6M	#175	0%	$0	—	—	—	—
Health Sciences	$1.2M	#226	40%	$0	—	—	—	1
Education	$0.2M	#335	44%	$0	—	—	—	—
Total	$105M	#153	53%	$5.8M	86	#193	460	28

Expenditure and funding source: NSF HERD, FY2024. Degrees: IPEDS completions, 2023–24. Students and postdocs: NSF Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates, fall 2024, which covers science, engineering and selected health fields only. An em dash means the source does not report the figure, which is not the same as zero.

Admissions

Uses Common App Yes

Acceptance Rate 86%

Yield (Unbound) 16%

Regular Decision Jan 1

Acceptance Rates

	In-State	Out-of-State	International
Regular Decision	86%	82%	96%

Acceptance & Yield

Acceptance Yield

Applicants, Admitted & Enrolled

Applicants Admitted Enrolled

IPEDS Admissions survey, 2011–2024. Years a college didn't file leave a gap in the line.

Standardized Tests

Test Policy optional

Submitted Test Scores 84%

SAT Range 1120 – 1330

SAT Math Range 560 – 670

SAT RW Range 560 – 670

SAT Composite

25th 75th

SAT Math

25th 75th

SAT Reading & Writing

25th 75th

Submitting a Test Score

Submitted

IPEDS Admissions survey, 2011–2024. Years a college didn't file leave a gap in the line. Test-score submission adds SAT and ACT submitters, capped at 100% — a student can send both.