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Fast Facts
- Michigan Tech’s Environmental Engineering graduate program is ranked seventh in the nation by U.S. News & World Report
- Michigan Tech maintains its own research vessel, the Agassiz.
- 4:1 student-to-faculty ratio
- More than $4.5 million in annual research expenditures
Graduate Programs in Master of Engineering
Master of Engineering:
Engineers who enter the Masters of Engineering have the opportunity to gain valuable work experience within industry while at the same time gaining an advanced degree. They also have the opportunity to go beyond the discipline they graduated in and broaden their skills. Most students that graduate with a Masters degree enjoy increased salaries and better opportunities to move into management positions.
The Master of Engineering degree is intended to be a terminal professional degree program where the candidate demonstrates advanced ability in course work and with advanced independent design. It meets the need for flexibility for students who want to expand their knowledge in more than one discipline or to change disciplines as they plan careers in industrial markets, in small- to medium-sized businesses, as well as other professional areas.
PhD in Engineering:
Rapid advances in scientific knowledge and technology development require the blending of expertise from several academic departments to solve problems. The individual scientist trained and working alone in a specific discipline is rapidly being replaced by a scientific team that brings individuals with different backgrounds and expertise together in a multidisciplinary approach. In recognition of this, Michigan Tech has developed a PhD in Engineering program that draws on faculty from several traditional science and engineering academic departments and focuses on several nontraditional engineering specialties.
Areas currently available for study and research leading to the doctoral degree in engineering are computational science and engineering, environmental engineering and propulsion systems engineering.