Wayne State Data
WSU Excellence.
- WSU is among the top 50 public research universities as ranked by the National Science Foundation.
- Research and development expenditures in FY07 for WSU exceeded $235 million.
- TechTown, WSU’s 12-block research and technology park, includes 44 companies, and reflects WSU’s long-term commitment to building an entrepreneurial culture on campus and in the community.
- WSU is a member of the University Research Corridor, an alliance of Michigan’s three largest research institutions that includes the University of Michigan and Michigan State University. The Corridor’s objective is to revitalize Michigan’s economy by transferring faculty discoveries to the marketplace, educating a skilled work force, and attracting talent to the state. Together, we generate 95% of research in Michigan.
- WSU is noted among the 15 best research institutions at which to work in academia in the nation according to a 2006 survey by The Scientist.
- The Princeton Review named WSU’s School of Business Administration one of the best business schools for 2008.
- WSU is at the forefront of developing electronic, web-accessible collections. WSU leads the Association of Research Libraries in the percentage of budget dedicated to electronic resources.
- WSU opened nine buildings since 2000, including three residence halls. A $27.3 million engineering facility to support research and technology will open in FY09. The Richard J. Mazurek, M.D., Medical Education Commons, the nucleus of medical programs for undergraduate, graduate and continuing medical education, will open in FY09. The Chemistry Building and Scott Hall in the School of Medicine have undergone renovations, and plans for a biomedical research building are underway. Classrooms, four ethnic rooms and faculty offices on the first floor of Manoogian Hall were renovated in 2008
- WSU has the highest levels of accreditation by the American Association for Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care, Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs Inc., and assurances through the Office for Protection of Research Risks at the National Institutes of Health and through other national and local agencies.
-
WSU is home to the Perinatalogy Research Branch of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), one of the few intramural branches located outside NIH’s main campus in Maryland.
Successful students.
- Seventy-five percent of WSU’s living alumni live in Michigan, providing a diverse, highly skilled talent pool for employers.
- WSU’s School of Medicine is the largest single-campus medical school in the nation and has the highest number of MD graduates each year in the state of Michigan. Approximately 30 percent of practicing physicians in Michigan and 43 percent of practicing physicians in the tri-county area received all or part of their medical training at WSU.
- WSU enrolled 31,668 students in fall 2008. Of these, 20,123 are undergraduate students, 8,733 are graduate students, and 2,812 are graduate professional students.
- WSU offers 350 degrees and certificate programs in 12 schools and colleges.
- WSU students come from 44 states and more than 90 countries. We have the most diverse university student body in Michigan.
- WSU’s urban mission integrates community engagement in many majors across the campus. Sixty-three percent of our departments offered a service learning course in 2007-2008.
WSU is a part of research that is changing the world.
- WSU is part of an alliance composed of Michigan’s top three research universities, two leading health care systems, and state and local health agencies working together in the National Children’s Study, a national research project to study how the environment affects the health and development of 100,000 children from before birth to age 21.
- WSU is home to the North American Public Health Institute, an international collaborative effort between WSU and the University of Windsor focusing on urban health problems. The collaboration provides an opportunity for comparative research into public health outcomes between countries that have very different healthcare delivery systems and public health policies, in the context of two cities with similar exposure and demographic factors.
- WSU is home to many exciting research developments including the first effective drug against AIDS – AZT; an all-natural dietary supplement has been found to aid in decreasing heart disease, diabetes and other diseases – FBCx; technology that allows users to pinpoint unwanted noise in a large number of products with a high degree of accuracy – SenSound; software that uses computerized models of the body to study effects of car crashes and other injuries on humans; a promising DNA vaccine that appears to eliminate drug-resistant HER2-positive tumors in mice-without toxic side effects; and more.
- WSU has a number of core research facilities available to scientists within the WSU community. This includes facilities in analytical chemistry, biocomputing, biostatistics, cell culture, clinical genetics, confocal microscopy, engineering technology, flow cytometry, genomics, imaging, metabolomics, proteomics, tissue biorepository, toxicology, and more. The Smart Sensors and Integrated Microsystems program in the College of Engineering involves research and development of biomedical microsystems and BioMEMs systems, and collaborates with the Kresge Eye Institute, the Ligon Center for Vision, Karmanos Cancer Institute and Children’s Hospital of Michigan.
- WSU’s Department of Music is a partner with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in the Power of Dreams String Project aimed at opening the world of music to Detroit’s children. The project inspires young children to play a string instrument and participate in musical ensembles and activities.