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Get the inside scoop on Michigan Tech admissions. Vault provides detailed accounts by students & alumni of the admissions process, including advice on getting in, applications, interviews, essays, and selectivity.


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Admissions Survey Excerpts
Current Student
It was a fairly competitive process. Female students have much better chances of getting scholarship.   READ MORE
Alumni
Michigan Tech is a public state run university and has open admissions but keeps total student population around 7000. Admissions is based on ACT ...   READ MORE
Current Student
The admission was an application that was very easy to fill out when I did it four years ago and I don't think much has changed. The questions we...   READ MORE
Alumni
Being an international student, I had to apply to the Center of International Education (CIE), headed by Mary Ann Brunner. She was very helpful in...   READ MORE
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Academics Survey Excerpts
Current Student
Most professors are awesome. Courses are pretty tough, but you do feel you learned alot. Engineering program is one of the best in the nation, whi...   READ MORE
Alumni
MTU is very strong academically and offers a wide variety of courses that allows students to specialize their curriculum towards specific engineer...   READ MORE
Current Student
The first two years for all students is pretty general. There are four different schools within the MTU campus; College of Engineering, College of...   READ MORE
Alumni
MTU is a comparatively small school. It has outstanding professors who take a personal interest in the welfare of their students. Classes are smal...   READ MORE
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Employment Prospect Survey Excerpts
Current Student
Career center staff work really hard to attract employers to campus. They are also very helpful in helping students find internship. Lots of top compa...   READ MORE
Alumni
MTU is visted by numerous companies for recruiting and is considered a strong source of candidates for many large midwestern companies.    READ MORE
Current Student
MTU has a Career Center that is devoted to helping the students. The offer resume workshops, mock interviews, e-recruiting, the Career Fair and much ...   READ MORE
Alumni
Houghton is situated in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. It is a beautiful place but it is far from any big city like Chicago or Detroit. But still, t...   READ MORE
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Quality of Life Survey Excerpts
Current Student
It is very safe at MTU.    READ MORE
Alumni
Campus is in a very small town in upper Michigan and offers a very safe environment. There are plenty of options for housing including 3 dorms, fr...   READ MORE
Current Student
The MTU campus is in the rural community of Houghton, MI. People looking for a big city atmosphere wont find it here. There are still a lot of ...   READ MORE
Alumni
Crime is extremely low in Houghton and the neighborhood is filled with helpful people. MTU provides great housing facilities at three residence ha...   READ MORE
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Social Life Survey Excerpts
Current Student
Not much social life in town, however lots of student organizations do organize all kinds of parties. Greek org is very popular here.    READ MORE
Alumni
Although in a small town there are many social outlets including a small mall, many bars and restaurants, skiing (downhill and x- country), and a ...   READ MORE
Current Student
Social life at MTU is pretty active. The area around the Campus has many bars, about 20. They are all very strict about underage drinking but th...   READ MORE
Alumni
It's a quiet life at Houghton except for the parties at the frat and sorority houses. Weekends tend to get louder than the week days. Summer is fi...   READ MORE

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