DETROIT, Sept. 9,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2024-25 academic year
at University of Detroit Mercy (UDM) is
off to a record-breaking start with the largest first-year
class in more than 30 years and a ranking that puts
it among the top 50 universities in the country.
The 2025 Wall Street Journal/College Pulse ranked UDM No.
43 in the nation, nine places higher than it ranked UDM last
year.
UDM's ranking was derived after being placed
- No. 39 in social mobility, an increase of nine spots from 2024
rankings.
- No. 44 in best salaries, an increase of 21 spots from 2024
rankings (previously titled Salary Impact).
- No. 91 in best value, a new category for 2025.
The 2025 ranking also makes UDM
- The second-highest ranked university in Michigan.
- The No. 2 Catholic university in the Midwest.
- The sixth-highest ranking Catholic university in the United States.
- The fifth ranked university among all Association of Jesuit
Colleges & Universities in the country.
Last year's No. 52 ranking led, in part, to a record first-year
class this fall of 655 students on the McNichols Campus. This is an
18.7% increase over last year and largest incoming class since
1990. The 2024 class includes students from Michigan and 20 states and nine countries.
Fifty percent of new students are the first in their family to
attend university.
With this record class and student retention above the national
average for last year's first-year class, UDM is on target for an
overall enrollment of more than 5,700.
One draw for new students to UDM was the new Titan Edge program,
which offers free tuition to first-year students eligible for the
maximum federal Pell Grant and the Michigan Achievement
Scholarship. Detroit Mercy also earned significant news coverage
last year. In April, UDM opened the Detroit Mercy Eye Institute at
its Novi Campus. Also in April, the
University hosted U.S. Sen. and Detroit Mercy alumnus Gary Peters and National Cyber Director
Harry Coker Jr. to observe the
groundbreaking work by UDM's Vehicle Cyber Engineering Program. The
U.S. Department of defense also provided $1.6 million in grants to establish the Metro
Detroit Regional Vehicle Cybersecurity Institute.
In addition, UDM had a record-breaking fundraising year, with
donors supporting UDM with more than $25
million in gifts that provide scholarships and faculty and
programmatic support.
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