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1. The three research universities bring in 95 percent of all external academic R&D dollars that come into the State, and together expend well over $1.3 billion in research activity. The three bring in another $750 million in federal financial aid to students.
2. The three universities received 632 patents in a five-year period, applied for 1,282 patents, and realized tech transfer revenue of $192 million from 2001–2005. This activity resulted in 79 start-up companies.
3. For Fall 2006, the three universities educated 40 percent of the state’s 287,573 university students enrolled at public universities. The three universities enrolled 64,799 graduate level students, or 55 percent of the total. This breaks down into 46,132 master’s-level students, or 44 percent of the total; 9,860 doctoral level students, or 76 percent of the total, and 8,807 graduate professional students (medicine, law, pharmacy and dentistry), or 93 percent of the total.
4. MSU, U-M and Wayne award the greatest number of graduate and professional degrees in the State in disciplines such as medicine, dentistry and engineering. Graduate programs like these require cost-intensive technology, facilities, equipment, and libraries.
5. U-M, MSU and Wayne are all differentiated by their medical schools and teaching hospitals. Their medical schools had a combined economic impact of about $18.7 billion in 2005, according to a new report from the Association of American Medical Colleges, which found these medical operations are directly and indirectly responsible for about 122,000 jobs, generating more than $976.2 million in state tax revenue in 2005.
6. As the State works to solve its nursing shortage, the availability of faculty to teach new nurses is critical. These three universities award all of the PhDs in nursing in our state.
7. Every year, the three universities send 26,672 graduates into the work force, including more than 3,800 new engineers (only the much larger states of California and New York graduate more engineers each year than Michigan), more than 1,300 PhDs, more than 1,400 MBAs and 957 new attorneys.
8. The three universities award 54 percent of the State’s science and engineering degrees, and are the only universities in the state to offer degrees in medicine (MD), veterinary medicine and dentistry. Healthcare is now Michigan’s largest private employer and every year, the three graduate 500 new MDs, more than 500 new nurses, 100 dentists and more than 100 new veterinarians.