unitid 170976 · Ann Arbor, MI · public 4-year · city (midsize)
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Public university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.
- founded
- 1817
- enrollment 2023
- 53,422
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- umich.edu
- motto
- “Artes, Scientia, Veritas”
The University of Michigan is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. It was founded in 1817 and is the oldest institution of higher education in the state. It is also one of the earliest American research universities and is a founding member of the Association of American Universities. wikipedia rev 1362297570 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within public 4-years
The record
admission rate
16%
2nd pctl among public 4-years
undergraduates
34,177
96th pctl among public 4-years
Pell share
18%
undergrads on Pell grants
12th pctl among public 4-years
completion
93%
finish within 150% time
100th pctl among public 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$34,654
96th pctl among public 4-years
avg net price / yr
$13,138
after aid, aided students
52nd pctl among public 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$83,648
after entry, Title IV students
98th pctl among public 4-years
median grad debt
$19,500
49th pctl among public 4-years
what families actually pay
Cost
Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.
Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort
Families earning under $30k paid $1,043 per year after aid.
Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of public 4-years (all incomes).
Who enrolls, by family income
- 0-30k22%
- 30-48k13%
- 48-75k14%
- 75-110knot reported
- 110k+not reported
- Median family income
- $65,045
- First-generation students
- 21%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $17,736
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 4.3× the median graduate debt.
Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.
What programs pay — top fields of study
| program | grads | earn 5 yr | debt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer and Information Sciences, General. | 1,215 | $153,297 | $20,000 |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 815 | $202,743 | — |
| Research and Experimental Psychology. | 761 | $63,419 | $18,708 |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 613 | $140,827 | $19,000 |
| Economics. | 608 | $108,627 | $19,690 |
| Electrical and Computer Engineering. | 456 | — | — |
| Social Work. | 383 | $64,619 | — |
| Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods. | 327 | — | — |
| Law. | 307 | $197,273 | — |
| Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology. | 284 | $65,675 | $17,750 |
| Information Science/Studies. | 279 | $86,385 | — |
| Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness. | 279 | $73,196 | $19,135 |
— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.
annual scorecard files, 1996–2026
Trajectory
Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.
Admission rate
Price per year
- sticker
- net
Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry
Undergraduates
wikidata · 15,504 people recorded
Memory
Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field
Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade
People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.
Wikipedia attention
monthly article views since 2015
most recorded occupationsresearcher (4,095) · university teacher (1,696) · politician (741) · lawyer (671) · American football player (662) · writer (588) · basketball player (585) · mathematician (393)
Nobel laureates who studied here
- Samuel C. C. Ting Physics 1976
- Stanley Cohen Medicine 1986
- Richard Smalley Chemistry 1996
- Hugh David Politzer Physics 2004
- Robert J. Shiller Economics 2013
The portrait wall
Sized by nothing, ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).
Gerald Ford
175 wikis · Public domain
Arthur Miller
113 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Michael Phelps
107 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Larry Page
103 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Jonas Salk
89 wikis · Public domain
Lucy Liu
80 wikis · CC BY 4.0
Ted Kaczynski
77 wikis · Public domain
Iggy Pop
73 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Ngô Đình Diệm
72 wikis · Public domain
Claude Shannon
70 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0 de
Samuel C. C. Ting
66 wikis · CC BY 3.0
Hugh David Politzer
65 wikis · Attribution
James Earl Jones
63 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Richard Smalley
61 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
François Duvalier
61 wikis · Public domain
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built 2026-07-17
Provenance
- U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
- Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
- Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
- Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
- Images are from Wikimedia Commons under free licenses. Render the credit line (artist + license) with every image.
- Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1362297570), CC BY-SA 4.0.