University of Michigan

The University of Michigan (U-M, UM, UMich, or U of M), often spoken merely as Michigan, could be a public analysis university set in urban center, Michigan, u.  s.. Originally, based in 1817 in port because the Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania, twenty years before the Michigan Territory formally became a state, the University of Michigan is that the state's oldest university. The university moved  to urban center in 1837 onto forty acres (16 ha) of what's currently called Central field. Since its institution in urban center, the university field has swollen to incorporate quite 584 major buildings with a combined space of quite thirty four million gross sq. feet (781 acres or
three.16 km²) displayed over a Central field and North field, has 2 satellite campuses set in Flint and Dearborn, and a middle in port. The University was one in every of the instauration members of the Association of yank Universities.

Considered one in every of the foremost analysis universities within the u.  s.,the university has terribly high analysis activity and its comprehensive graduate program offers scholar degrees within the humanities, social sciences, and STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) yet as skilled degrees in design, business, medicine, law, pharmacy, nursing, welfare work and odontology. Michigan's body of living alumni (as of 2012) contains quite five hundred,000. Besides educational life, Michigan's athletic groups vie in Division I of the NCAA and square measure conjointly called the Wolverines. they're members of the large 10 Conference.