What's wrong with this picture? There is an urgent need to grow Michigan Tech's endowment, which currently lags far behind many of our peers and competing universities.

Raise $54 million over the next ten years and create an endowment that will support our ambitious academic goals.
What a difference an endowment makes.

Endowing Excellence
creates working capital

If there’s one thing better than achieving your goals, it’s exceeding them.

Phase I of our Building for the Future campaign was a resounding success. Thanks to the generosity of our alums and friends, we raised $3.4 million, exceeding our goal of $2.8 million by 21 percent, and have improved the educational environment for ME-EM students, faculty and staff. Our undergraduate facilities are state of the art.

The department has grown and its impact is felt across the nation. Among schools that offer the BSME through 2002, Michigan Tech has been in the top four universities in numbers of undergraduate degrees granted for 19 consecutive years; In 2001-2002, ME-EM was number three.

Our vision: Solidify and enhance our reputation as a department of choice nationally.

The challenges of attracting, rewarding and retaining great faculty and great students are greater than ever. Today, we lack the financial foundation needed to sustain our vision for future generations. But you can help us accomplish just that by endowing excellence, raising funds that will support our people.

We plan to invest the money wisely by expanding our graduate program.

Graduate students are vital to the day-today business of conducting advanced research. Without graduate programs, university research goes unfunded. Through astute investment of our own funds, the graduate program has grown steadily for the past ten years, attracting talented faculty and research grants. In 1999–2000, Michigan Tech’s ME-EM Department ranked 21st in PhDs granted, and 12th in total graduate student enrollment, out of 260 ME departments in the country. However MTU’s endowment falls below our national standing, and lags far behind our peers.

Goals for Endowing Excellence

Raise $54 million over the next ten years and create an endowment that will support our ambitious academic goals.

University Endowments:

How we stack up University Endowment per Student

Rensselaer Polytech: $88,500
Georgia Tech: $71,800
University of Michigan: $68,600
Colorado School of Mines: $38,800
Virginia Polytech: $11,586
Michigan Tech: $6,200