Grand Valley State University is a learning community where close student-faculty interaction enhances both teaching and learning. Professors collaborate with students on innovative research projects, creating opportunities more commonly associated with master's degree programs.

Our liberal arts emphasis in 200 areas of study, including 68 undergraduate majors and 23 graduate programs, means students learn to think critically. Grand Valley enrolls almost 23,000 students. The main campus is in Allendale, MI, 20 minutes west of Grand Rapids, Michigan's second largest city and home of GVSU's downtown campus.

Ranked by U.S. News & World Report as a "Best College," Lawrence Technological University offers more than 60 bachelor's, master's and doctoral programs in Colleges of Architecture and Design, Arts and Sciences, Engineering, and Management.

Lawrence Tech pioneered the offering of day and evening classes nearly 75 years ago, and now has a growing number of on-line programs as well as weekend classes at Schoolcraft and Macomb Community Colleges, downriver, and in Petoskey and Traverse City. Michigan's first wireless laptop campus, Lawrence Tech features high-tech laboratories, active student life, apartment-style housing, and a solid academic tradition focused on theory and practice.

Walsh College is southeast Michigan's prestigious business college offering junior, senior and graduate level courses toward bachelor and master degrees. Walsh College consistently ranks among the top business schools in the country on the CMA and CFM certification tests for management accountants and financial management. At Walsh, you learn the real world of business from real business leaders.

Kettering University is the country’s most advanced professional cooperative education program, delivering co-op jobs and wages to 100% of its students. In-demand degrees are offered at the bachelor and master levels. U.S. News & World Report again ranks Kettering as a “Best College” in its annual guide.

Kettering offers accredited undergraduate degrees in computer, electrical, industrial and mechanical engineering, applied math, applied physics, engineering physics, biochemistry, chemistry, computer science, and business. Students can customize their degree with more than 40 minors, concentrations, and specialties, such as bioengineering, fuel cells & hybrids, acoustics, or pre-law. Students can also choose a course of study for pre-med. At the graduate level, Kettering offers several Master of Science degrees, along with its new highly-individualized MBA program.

Kettering students graduate massively ahead of the game with up to 2.5 years of professional work experience, an average of $65,000 in co-op wages in their pockets, and a job offer that is usually above average for starting salaries.

Northwood University Northwood University specializes in business management education with an emphasis on the global economy. Students begin classes in their major on Day One of their freshman year. Northwood’s placement rate for its graduates is excellent. Alumni can be found in leadership positions at Fortune 500 companies throughout the world. Northwood also offers an MBA as well as degrees for working adults.