WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY O-24

656 West Kirby St.
Detroit, MI 48202
Tel: (313)577-2424; 877-978
Admissions: (313)577-9753
Fax: (313)577-7536
Web Site: http://www.wayne.edu/

Description:

State-supported, university, coed. Awards bachelor's, master's, doctoral, and first professional degrees and post-master's certificates. Founded 1868. Setting: 203-acre urban campus. Research spending 2003-04: $143.6 million. Educational spending 2003-04: $10,359 per student. Total enrollment: 33,314. Faculty: 1,925 (1,001 full-time, 924 part-time). Student-undergrad faculty ratio is 17:1. 9,680 applied, 63% were admitted. 24% from top 10% of their high school class, 47% from top quarter, 76% from top half. Full-time: 11,608 students, 59% women, 41% men. Part-time: 9,104 students, 60% women, 40% men. Students come from 34 states and territories, 57 other countries, 1% from out-of-state, 0.5% Native American, 3% Hispanic, 32% black, 5% Asian American or Pacific Islander, 4% international, 34% 25 or older, 7% live on campus, 11% transferred in. Academic areas with the most degrees conferred: business/marketing; education; health professions and related sciences. Core. Calendar: semesters. Academic remediation for entering students, ESL program, services for LD students, advanced placement, accelerated degree program, self-designed majors, honors program, independent study, distance learning, double major, summer session for credit, part-time degree program, adult/continuing education programs, co-op programs and internships, graduate courses open to undergrads. Off campus study at University of Michigan, University of Windsor. Study abroad program. ROTC: Air Force (c).

Entrance Requirements:

Options: deferred admission, international baccalaureate accepted. Required: high school transcript, minimum 2.0 high school GPA, SAT or ACT. Required for some: recommendations, interview, portfolio. Entrance: moderately difficult. Application deadline: 8/1. Notification: continuous until 9/1.

Costs Per Year:

Application fee: $30. State resident tuition: $4773 full-time, $159 per semester hour part-time. Nonresident tuition: $10,941 full-time, $365 per semester hour part-time. Mandatory fees: $626 full-time, $14.30 per semester hour part-time, $98.50 per term part-time. Full-time tuition and fees vary according to student level. Part-time tuition and fees vary according to student level. College room and board: $6700. Room and board charges vary according to housing facility.

Collegiate Environment:

Orientation program. Drama-theater group, choral group, marching band, student-run newspaper. Social organizations: 104 open to all; national fraternities, national sororities, local fraternities; 1% of eligible men and 1% of eligible women are members. Most popular organizations: Indian Student Association, Golden Key Honor Society, Campus Crusade for Christ, Friendship Association of Chinese Students, Project Volunteer/Students of Service. Major annual events: Student Organization Days, Homecoming Week, International Fair. Student services: legal services, health clinic, personal-psychological counseling, women's center. Campus security: 24-hour emergency response devices and patrols, late night transport-escort service, controlled dormitory access. 1,700 college housing spaces available; 1,347 were occupied in 2003-04. Freshmen given priority for college housing. Option: coed housing available. David Adamany Undergraduate Library plus 6 others with 1.9 million books, 3.8 million microform titles, 18,645 serials, 70,131 audiovisual materials, an OPAC, and a Web page. 1,800 computers available on campus for general student use. A campuswide network can be accessed from student residence rooms and from off campus. Staffed computer lab on campus.

Community Environment:

At the turn of the 20th Century, Detroit was a quiet, tree-shaded community brewing beer and producing comfortable carriages and comforting stoves. The serenity was broken by Henry Ford's creation, a vehicle "propelled by power generated from within itself." Today, it is the greatest automobile-manufacturing city in the world. It is also rapidly becoming a steel center and a leader in the manufacturing of pharmaceuticals, office equipment, rubber products, salt, television components, synthetic resins and paints, meat products, marine engines and more than half the garden seed used throughout the country. Annual mean temperature is 49.3 degrees, and annual rainfall is 31.03 inches. Definitely an industrial city, Detroit has a civic center complex on the riverfront, an excellent park system and numerous museums and art galleries.