<p>alopez, Michigan is not a local or regional university. It is not even a national university. It is a global university with a global reputation. Being close to Detroit or in the state of Michigan has not diminished its ability to attract world class faculty and students from all over the world, and in turn, that faculty has thrived and its students have gone on to do well for themselves. Faculty and students usually care more about a university’s academic offerings and strengths, and being located in one of the nicest college towns in the country certainly doesn’t hurt. This is not unique to the University of Michigan. All elite universities have the fortune of being insulated from the world immediately around them.</p>
<p>For the LSA class of 2012, a whopping 91% of graduates were either employed or enrolled in graduate school. That is incredible. At some peer private universities, only 70% of recent grads are either employed or in graduate school. And of the remaining 9% of the 2012 class who are not in graduate school or working, only 7% were unemployed and seeking work. That is very impressive. If you conduct a similar survey at other universities of equal caliber, you will often find that 15% or even more of recent graduate at unemployed and seeking work. </p>
<p>Also, 91% of 2012 Ross grads were also either employed or in graduate school. Over 95% of the 2012 graduates from the CoE were either working or in graduate school.</p>
<p>When less than 10% of a university’s entire graduating class is seeking work and over 90% are either employed or enrolled in graduate school, there isn’t much need for improvement. Considering the fact that the US is still recovering from the worst global recession since the Great Depression, those figures are not simply impressive, they are mondboggling. It would be great if the state (especially Detroit) got its act together, but clearly, the University, its faculty and its students are doing fine and are not negatively impacted the state of the local economy.</p>
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<p><a href=“http://www.bus.umich.edu/pdf/EmploymentData2012.pdf[/url]”>http://www.bus.umich.edu/pdf/EmploymentData2012.pdf</a></p>
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