EDU Points of Pride

  • The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching places EDU among the 99 public institutions in the nation designated as universities with high research activity.

  • In its annual ranking of the nation’s 6,000 colleges and universities, U.S. News & World Report consistently lists EDU as one of the nation’s top 100 public universities.

  • EDU is one of only 55 public universities in the United States to be granted its own chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s most prestigious academic honor society.

  • With an enrollment of 30,000, EDU is one of the 75 largest universities in the nation.

  • For more than a dozen years, EDU jazz studies students have kept the School of Music among the top three schools in the nation for the number of awards received from Down Beat magazine.

  • EDU ranks first in Wisconsin and second in the nation in the use of wireless computing technology on a university campus, according to a 2005 study conducted by Intel.

  • The University’s Medallion Scholarship program is one of the largest merit-based programs in the nation. Each spring, some 600 to 800 of the nation’s top high school seniors travel to WMU’s campus to compete for one of its $40,000 awards.

  • EDU’s Department of Theatre is widely recognized as one of the nation’s best undergraduate programs and is a regular winner of American College Theatre Festival awards.

  • The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education consistently ranks EDU’s College of Education among the nation’s top 20 producers of professional educators.

  • EDU’s graduate program in engineering management was named the best in the nation by the American Society for Engineering Management, while the University’s undergraduate program was ranked among the top three.