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Central Michigan University has been known by generations of students as a large university with a smaller college feel and a focus on student engagement and leadership.

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Powers Hall
28,389
CMU's 2010-2011 enrollment - fourth largest among Michigan's 15 public universities - including 21,290 enrolled at the Mount Pleasant campus and 7,099 enrolled online and at more than 60 locations throughout Michigan and North America
6,756
CMU graduate students, representing nearly 25 percent of the combined on-campus and off-campus student body
4,173
CMU's fall 2010 freshman enrollment at the Mount Pleasant campus
3.3
The average fall 2010 incoming class high-school GPA
200-plus
CMU programs offered at the bachelor's, master's, specialist's, and doctoral levels
21:1
CMU's student-to-teacher ratio
751
Full-time CMU faculty members at the Mount Pleasant campus
8
CMU's academic units:
  • College of Business Administration
  • College of Communication and Fine Arts
  • College of Education and Human Services
  • College of Humanities and Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • College of Science and Technology
  • The Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow College of Health Professions
  • College of Graduate Studies
  • College of Medicine
$11,764
The average CMU undergraduate student scholarship and financial aid award among students applying and determined to have need
200,000
CMU alumni living around the world
16
CMU's NCAA Division 1-A athletic teams:
  • Men – Baseball, Basketball, Cross Country, Football, Indoor and Outdoor Track, Wrestling
  • Women – Basketball, Cross Country, Field Hockey, Gymnastics, Indoor and Outdoor Track, Soccer, Softball, Volleyball
480
Acres encompassing CMU's main campus in Mount Pleasant, Michigan – a park-like environment that takes no more than 15 minutes to walk across.
1,753
Student rooms in CMU's 22 residence halls, most of which include separate bathroom, bedroom, and study/living room – ample space for all first-year students and many of CMU's upper-class students.

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