| The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor is top ranked | | | | halls. The University of Michigan became a major |
| among the world's top universities academically. The | | | | recipient of government grants for strategic research |
| "U of M" has the largest number of living alumni at | | | | during the Cold War. During the 1970s, budget |
| 420,000 as well as having one of the largest research | | | | constraints hindered the university's physical |
| expenditures of any American university. In addition | | | | development and academic standing. When the 1980s |
| to having the largest living alumni, it is the oldest | | | | rolled around, increased funds were devoted to |
| university in the state of Michigan.Originally founded in | | | | research in the social and physical sciences. For some |
| 1817 in Detroit while Michigan was still a territory, the | | | | the 1980s and most of the 1990s, "U of M" devoted |
| campus was moved to the city of Ann Arbor in 1837. | | | | large amounts of resources to renovating its massive |
| In 2006, "U.S. World & News Report" ranked the | | | | hospital complex and improving the academic facilities |
| undergraduate division 25th in the United States and | | | | on the North Campus.The University of Michigan's |
| has placed a number of its graduate and professional | | | | library system is one of the largest in the United |
| programs within the nation's top ten. Those programs | | | | States. It comprises 19 individual libraries with 24 |
| include; engineering, education, law, business, library | | | | separate collections, which roughly calculates to 7.96 |
| science, political science, medicine and sociology. In | | | | million volumes. The growing at the rate of volumes |
| addition to the great academics, the university also | | | | is about 150,000 each year. A skywalk on Central |
| excels at athletics. Michigan's most notable teams are | | | | Campus connects the two prominent libraries( Harlan |
| for football, ice hockey and basketball.The first | | | | Hatcher Graduate Library and Shapiro Undergraduate |
| classes in Ann Arbor were held in 1841, with six | | | | Library).The Ann Arbor campus is divided into a |
| freshmen and a sophomore, taught by two | | | | Central Campus, North Campus and South Campus. |
| professors. Eleven students graduated in the first | | | | Together, the three campuses include more than 300 |
| commencement in 1845. By 1866, the enrolment had | | | | major buildings, with a combined area of more than |
| increased to 1205 students. Women were not | | | | 29 million square feet. Ann Arbor's Unversity of |
| admitted into the university until 1870. Even though it | | | | Michigan is truly a magnificent school to visit or |
| had been so many years until the first females were | | | | attend. The athletics alone attact countless people a |
| admitted, the University of Michigan was only the | | | | year, whether it be at a live game or on television. |
| third school to do so. During the time period of 1900 | | | | This university attracts many students worldwide |
| to 1920, many new facilities were constructed on | | | | every year, but only accepts the brightest |
| campus. Those facilities include buildings for dental and | | | | high-school students. The requirements to attent the |
| pharmacy programs, Hill Auditorium, a chemistry | | | | University of Michigan are high, but that is why it has |
| building, a large hospital and library complexes, a | | | | been one of the most sucessful schools in the |
| building for the natural sciences and two residential | | | | county for well over 100 years. |