| The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor is top ranked | | | | commencement in 1845. By 1866, the enrolment had |
| among the world's top universities academically. The | | | | increased to 1205 students. Women were not |
| "U of M" has the largest number of living alumni at | | | | admitted into the university until 1870. Even though it |
| 420,000 as well as having one of the largest research | | | | had been so many years until the first females were |
| expenditures of any American university. In addition | | | | admitted, the University of Michigan was only the |
| to having the largest living alumni, it is the oldest | | | | third school to do so. During the time period of 1900 |
| university in the state of Michigan. | | | | to 1920, many new facilities were constructed on |
| Originally founded in 1817 in Detroit while Michigan was | | | | campus. Those facilities include buildings for dental and |
| still a territory, the campus was moved to the city of | | | | pharmacy programs, Hill Auditorium, a chemistry |
| Ann Arbor in 1837. In 2006, "U.S. World & News | | | | building, a large hospital and library complexes, a |
| Report" ranked the undergraduate division 25th in the | | | | building for the natural sciences and two residential |
| United States and has placed a number of its | | | | halls. The University of Michigan became a major |
| graduate and professional programs within the | | | | recipient of government grants for strategic research |
| nation's top ten. Those programs include; engineering, | | | | during the Cold War. During the 1970s, budget |
| education, law, business, library science, political | | | | constraints hindered the university's physical |
| science, medicine and sociology. In addition to the | | | | development and academic standing. When the 1980s |
| great academics, the university also excels at | | | | rolled around, increased funds were devoted to |
| athletics. Michigan's most notable teams are for | | | | research in the social and physical sciences. For some |
| football, ice hockey and basketball. | | | | the 1980s and most of the 1990s, "U of M" devoted |
| The first classes in Ann Arbor were held in 1841, with | | | | large amounts of resources to renovating its massive |
| six freshmen and a sophomore, taught by two | | | | hospital complex and improving the academic facilities |
| professors. Eleven students graduated in the first | | | | on the North Campus. |