<p>I have a cousin who’s been on the education faculty at U of Mich, EMU, and Michigan State. </p>
<p>He says the college of education at U of Mich (Ann Arbor) is much more concerned with educational research than with training school teachers, so don’t lose any sleep about not going there.</p>
<p>EMU supposedly graduates as many school teachers as any university in the country. The campus is nice enough, but the city it’s in and the on-campus life are not very vibrant. So…decent enough for locals to get an education on the cheap, but if you’re coming from out of state, you could do better.</p>
<p>MSU is apparently VERY good in both educational research and training teachers. My cousin raves about the college of education. Beautiful campus, bigtime sports, etc. Classic large midwestern university.</p>
<p>Central Michigan is sort of a “poor man’s” MSU…decent campus, decent sports, decent academics, decent social life. Sort of a generic medium-sized state university…nothing really fabulous, and nothing really bad about it, either.</p>