Western Michigan University

Carnegie Foundation Classification

Research Universities (high research activity)

General Characteristics

Highest offering	Doctoral degree
Calendar System	Semester
Years of college work required	N/A
Variable Tuition

Special Learning Opportunities

Distance Learning
ROTC — Army / Navy / Air Force	— / /
Study Abroad
Weekend College
Teacher Certification

Western Michigan University Academics

The university has disability services as well, so be sure to inquire about them if needed. In addition, when any student is looking for some counseling or other types of support, Adult (re-entering) student services, Alcohol/Substance Abuse Counseling, Campus Ministries/Chaplain, Career Counseling, Employment Service, Financial Aid Counseling, Freshman Orientation Program, Health Services, Minority Student Services, On-Campus Daycare, Personal Counseling, Placement Service, Veterans Counselor and Women’s Services can help. Western Michigan University is unique in its study options. In particular, the university has a Accelerated Program, Cross-Registration, Distance Learning, Double Major, Dual Enrollment of High School Students, ESL, Honors Program, Independent Study, Internships, ROTC, Army, Student-Designed Major, Study Abroad, Teacher Certification, Visiting/Exchange Student Program and Weekend College. There’s never a reason to feel alone in your studies either, since there are academic support services like Extensive Undergraduate Evening or Early Morning Classes, Learning Center, Pre-Admission Summer Program, Reduced Course Load, Remedial Instruction, Study Skills Assistance, Tutoring and Writing Center.

The following are the types of degrees and majors offered at Western Michigan University.

Popular majors:

twenty-four percent business per marketing, twenty percent education, seven percent communications per journalism, five percent social sciences

History:

History – General, Public History/Archives

Health and Clinical Sciences:

Community Health Services, Health Services – General, Health System Administration, Music Therapy, Nursing (RN), Speech-Language Pathology/Audiology, Substance Abuse Counseling

Psychology:

Psychology – General

School of Visual and Performing Arts:

Acting, Art – General, Art History/Criticism/Conservation, Dance, Drama/Theater Arts, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Jazz Studies, Music – General, Music – General Performance, Music Theory/Composition, Theater Design/Stagecraft

Education:

Art Teacher Education, Biology Teacher Education, Chemistry Teacher Education, Education of Emotionally Handicapped, Education of Mentally Handicapped, Elementary Education, English Teacher Education, Family/Consumer Sciences – Education, Foreign Language Teacher Education, French Teacher Education, French as Second/Foreign Language, Geography Teacher Education, German Teacher Education, Health Teacher Education, History Teacher Education, Latin Teacher Education, Mathematics Education, Music Teacher Education, Physical Education, Physics Teacher Education, Sales/Marketing Education, Science Teacher Education, Secondary Education, Social Science Teacher Education, Spanish Language Teacher Education, Technology/Industrial Arts Education

Philosphy and Religion:

Philosophy, Religion/Religious Studies

Security and Protective Services:

Criminal Justice Studies

Public Administration and Service:

Public Administration, Social Work

Social Sciences:

American Government/Politics, Anthropology, Economics, Geography, International Relations, Political Science/Government, Social Sciences – General, Sociology

Computer Science:

Computer Programming – Specific Applications, Computer Science, Computer/Information Sciences – General

Parks, Recreation, and Fitness:

Exercise Sciences, recreation & fitness – general

English Language and Literature:

Creative Writing, English Composition, English Language & Literature – General

Foreign Language and Literature:

French, German, Latin, Spanish

Physical Sciences:

Chemistry, Geochemistry, Geology, GeophysicsSeismology, HydrologyWater Resources, Physics

Biological and Biomedical Sciences:

Biochemistry, Biology, Biomedical Sciences, Chem/Phys/Molecular Biology

Multiple or Interdisciplinary:

Global Studies

Business, Management, & Marketing:

Accounting, Business – General, Business Administration/Management, Finance/Banking, Financial Planning, Human Resources Management, Information Resources Management, Logistics/Materials Management, Management Science, Marketing Management, Nonprofit Management, Real Estate, Tourism/Travel Marketing

Mathematics:

Applied Mathematics, Mathematics – General, Statistics

Communications & Journalism:

Communications/Rhetoric, Journalism, Mass Communications/Media Studies, Public Relations

In addition, for international students, the application fee is 35. Are you an international student? The Fall application deadline for international students is the 1st of May. The cost per credit hour (overall) was $506 Cost & Savings Calculator Financial Aid International students eligible for need-based aid last fall.

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Western Michigan University Admissions

This school requires an application fee consisting of thirty-five dollars regular application fee, thirty-five dollars out-of-state application fee, thirty-five dollars online application fee and point zero . Admission policy is currently Percent applicants admitted: 85% and Percent of students who return for sophomore year: 73%. Remember that this can change at any time. Transfer student are not ignored. An instance of this, there were three thousand, one hundred and six total number of transfer students who applied and two thousand, four hundred and ninety-three total number of transfer students who were admitted.

the SAT subject section score due date was not reported. SAT and ACT score reports are due the 1st of May and Will you make it in time? Make sure to know when all the due dates and deadlines take place. The regular application due date was not reported. For all student applicants, the Fall application deadline is the 1st of May. For priority students, financial aid applications are due no later than the 1st of April. It is also very important to submit financial aid applications as quickly as possible, make sure to check with the university about the specific date for this year.

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Western Michigan University Financial Aid

Financial aid forms are FAFSA. Financial aid distribution is at thirty-six percent scholarships per grants and sixty-four percent loans per jobs. If you are not a need based student, non-need distribution for financial aid is determined by Academics, Art, Athletics, Minority Status, Music/Drama, ROTC and State/District Residency. Financial aid for students is readily accessible at this school. Likewise, need based financial aid distribution is determined through Minority Status.

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Western Michigan University Students

Western Michigan University offers Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoral degrees. The school’s size is approximately twenty-one thousand, two hundred and eighty-seven degree-seeking undergrads, three thousand, seven hundred and fifty-one first-time degree-seeking freshmen and four thousand, eight hundred and five graduate enrollment. The university is a Public, University, Four-year, Coed, where 85 percent of the applicants were admitted, Regionally accredited and College Board member. Furthermore, it is part of an Urban setting, Small city (50,000 – 249,999) and Residential campus. Moreover, the student body consists of ninety-two percent in-state students, eight percent out-of-state students, one percent part-time students, fifty-two percent women, forty-eight percent men, two percent american indian per alaskan native, less than one percent asian per pacific islander, seven percent black per non-hispanic, two percent hispanic, eighty-eight percent white per non-hispanic, one percent non-resident alien, less than one percent race per ethnicity unreported, thirteen percent in top 10th of graduating class, thirty-three percent in top quarter of graduating class, seventy percent in top half of graduating class, eighteen percent had h.s. gpa of 3.75 and higher, fourteen percent had h.s. gpa between 3.5 and 3.74, seventeen percent had h.s. gpa between 3.25 and 3.49, twenty-one percent had h.s. gpa between 3.0 and 3.24, twenty-nine percent had h.s. gpa between 2.5 and 2.99 and one percent had h.s. gpa between 2.0 and 2.49.

This school features the Urban setting, Small city (50,000 – 249,999) and Residential campus. At least, the school is located 140 miles from Detroit, 140 miles from Chicago.Furthermore, the university has many unique facilites such as Van de Graaff particle accelerator, pilot plant for manufacturing and printing of paper and fiber recovery, aviation flight simulators, business technology park.

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Western Michigan University Athletics

The Broncos are a member of NCAA. The following sports can be found here:

• Men’s NCAA Division I and Men’s Intercollegiate Baseball
• Men’s NCAA Division I, Women’s NCAA Division I, Men’s Intercollegiate, Women’s Intercollegiate, Men’s Intramural, Women’s Intramural, Men’s Scholarship and Women’s Scholarship Basketball
• Women’s NCAA Division I, Women’s Intercollegiate, Men’s Scholarship and Women’s Scholarship Cross_country
• Men’s NCAA Division IA, Men’s Intercollegiate, Men’s Intramural, Women’s Intramural and Men’s Scholarship Football
• Women’s NCAA Division I, Women’s Intercollegiate, Men’s Intramural and Women’s Scholarship Golf
• Men’s Intramural and Women’s Intramural Racquetball
• Men’s NCAA Division I, Women’s NCAA Division I, Men’s Intercollegiate, Women’s Intercollegiate, Men’s Intramural, Women’s Intramural, Men’s Scholarship and Women’s Scholarship Soccer
• Women’s NCAA Division I, Women’s Intercollegiate, Men’s Intramural, Women’s Intramural and Women’s Scholarship Softball
• Men’s Intramural and Women’s Intramural Table_tennis
• Women’s Intercollegiate, Men’s Scholarship and Women’s Scholarship Track_and_field
• Women’s NCAA Division I Track_indoor
• Women’s NCAA Division I Track_outdoor
• Women’s NCAA Division I, Women’s Intercollegiate, Men’s Intramural, Women’s Intramural and Women’s Scholarship Volleyball

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