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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
27,354
CMU's 2008-2009 enrollment - fourth largest among Michigan's 15 public universities - including 20,246 enrolled at the Mount Pleasant campus and 7,108 enrolled online and at more than 60 locations throughout Michigan and North America
6,814
CMU graduate students, representing nearly 25 percent of the combined on-campus and off-campus student body
3,864
CMU's fall 2008 freshman enrollment at the Mount Pleasant campus
3.3
The average fall 2008 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
836
Full-time CMU faculty members at the Mount Pleasant campus
7
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
$10,048
The average CMU undergraduate student scholarship and financial aid award among students applying and determined to have need
$13 million
Donations received during 2007-2008, one of the university's highest totals ever
182,000
CMU alumni living  around the world, including more than 105,000 in Michigan
$374,256,353
CMU's 2007-2008 fiscal year revenues
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
$50 million
Money committed by the state of Michigan and private sources to secure CMU's historic leadership in the field of teacher education with the new Education Building, which opens in fall 2009.
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.
6,317
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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