Northern Michigan University

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School Location

1401 Presque Isle Avenue
Marquette, MI 49855

General information

(906) 227-1000

Type of institution:	Public, 4-year or above
Federal Aid:	Institution has a Program Participation Agreement with the US Department of Education for eligible students to receive Pell Grants and other federal aid.
Degrees offered:	Certificates/Less-than-1-year Certificates, Certificates/Less-than-2-year Certificates, Associate degrees, Bachelor degrees, Masters degrees, Certificates/Post-Master's Certificates
Carnegie classification:	Master's Colleges and Universities (larger programs)
Number of students:	9,358 (2007)
2009-2008 Undergraduate application fee:	$ 30

About this School

Northern Michigan University is an American four year accredited institution of postsecondary learning located in Marquette, Michigan. Northern was founded in 1899 as a place to educate future teachers. It was originally called the Northern State Normal School. In the following years it changed names several times as the institution grew, and it finally became Northern Michigan University in 1963. The NMU campus is located on the south shore of Lake Superior in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Northern provides over 180 degree undergraduate and graduate degree programs grounded in the liberal arts. The most popular undergraduate degree programs at Northern are elementary and secodary education, nursing and art & design. NMU was the first Michigan public university to implement a campus-wide laptop program in fall 2000 With Northern's Teaching, Learning, and Communication Initiative, each full-time student is equipped with a notebook computer as a part of tuition and fees. In 2006, Intel Corporation named NMU as one of the top 20 "Most Unwired" campuses in the US, with the capacity to simultaneously support over 800 students in one classroom building alone. Campus structures include over 50 buildings including; the DeVos Art Museum; the Glenn T. Seaborg Center for Teaching and Learning Science and Mathematics; The Berry Events Center; two on-campus radio stations; a public TV station; and the Superior Dome, an 8,000 seat stadium and the largest wooden dome in the world. Enrollment as of 2005 was 9,422, an all-time high. Northern's main recruitment base is the Upper Peninsula; approximately 60 percent of students were residents of the Upper Peninsula before attending NMU. Eighty percent of NMU's faculty hold doctorates or the highest degrees in their fields. The student-faculty ratio is 20:1. The average class size is 23, the average lab size is 16, and the average seminar size is 10. Ninety-three percent of entry-level courses are taught by career faculty.

Tuition and Fees	2009-2008	2008-2007	2007-2006
Academic year prices for full-time, first-time undergraduate students
In-State	$ 7,078	$ 6,709	$ 6,141
Out of State	$ 11,230	$ 10,645	$ 10,077
Books and Supplies	$ 800	$ 748	$ 645
On-Campus
Room and board	$ 7,636	$ 7,220	$ 6,874
Other Expenses	$ 1,838	$ 1,814	$ 1,764
Off Campus
Room and board	$ 7,636	$ 7,220	$ 6,874
Other Expenses	$ 1,838	$ 1,814	$ 1,764
Off Campus w/ family
Other Expenses	$ 1,838	$ 1,814	$ 1,764

Financial aid 2006-2007

Financial aid to full-time, first-time undergraduate students

Type of Aid	Percentage of students receiving aid	Average amount of aid they received
Federal Grants (scholarship/fellowship)	30%	$ 3,060
State/Local grants (scholarship/fellowship)	42%	$ 2,255
Institutional grants (scholarship/fellowship)	58%	$ 2,672
Loans to students	63%	$ 4,847

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