Editing Eastern Michigan University (section)

==Academics==

===Undergraduate admissions===
{{Infobox U.S. college admissions
|year              = 2024
|change ref=<ref name="cds19-20" />
|admit rate        = 79.6%
|admit rate change = +5.5
|yield rate        = 9.7%
|yield rate change = -10.6
|test optional=yes
|SAT Total         = 930–1150
|SAT Total change  =-40 
|SAT EBRW=480-600
|SAT EBRW change=-5
|SAT Math=440-570
|SAT Math change=-30
|ACT               = 18–27
|ACT change        =0.5 
|top decile=12%
|top decile change=-1
|top quarter=36%
|top quarter change=-1
|top half=67%
|top half change=-3
|GPA=3.33
|GPA change=+0.00
|float             = right
|undergrad=yes
|ref               = <ref name="cds23-24" />
}}

EMU is considered "selective" by ''U.S. News & World Report''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Eastern Michigan University |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/eastern-michigan-university-2259 |work=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=November 3, 2022}}</ref> For the Class of 2028 (enrolled fall 2024), EMU received 21,337 applications and accepted 16,992 (79.6%). Of those accepted,1,650 enrolled, a yield rate (the percentage of accepted students who choose to attend the university) of 9.7%. EMU's freshman retention rate is 68%, with 46% going on to graduate within six years.<ref name="cds24-25" />

For fall 2024, EMU received 2,533 applications for transfer admission and accepted 1,703, an admission rate of 67.2%. Of those accepted, 886 enrolled, a yield rate of 52.0%. A transfer applicant must have a minimum of 12 credits completed and maintain a 2.0 overall grade point average (or better).<ref name="cds21-22" />

The enrolled first-year class of 2028 had the following standardized test scores: the middle 50% range (25th–75th percentiles) of [[SAT]] scores was 930–1150, with EBRW and Math scores being 480-600 and 440-570, respectively, while the middle 50% range of [[ACT (test)|ACT]] scores was 18–27.<ref name="cds22-23" /> The average GPA of the incoming freshman class was 3.33, with 12% of the class being in the top 10%, 36% in the top 25%, and 67% in the top 50% of the high school class.<ref name="cds22-23" />

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; float:left; font-size:90%; margin:10px"
|+ '''Fall first-time freshman statistics'''<ref name="cds24-25">{{cite web |title=EMU Common Data Set 2024-2025 |url=https://irim.emich.edu/datafiles/pdf/cds2024.pdf |publisher=EMU Institutional Research |access-date=2025-02-11}}</ref><ref name="cds23-24">{{cite web |url=https://irim.emich.edu/datafiles/pdf/cds2023v1.pdf |title=EMU Common Data Set 2023-2024 |publisher=EMU Institutional Research |access-date=2025-02-11}}</ref><ref name="cds22-23">{{cite web |title=EMU Common Data Set 2022-2023 |url=https://irim.emich.edu/datafiles/pdf/cds2022v3.pdf |publisher=EMU Institutional Research |access-date=2025-02-11}}</ref><ref name="cds21-22">{{cite web |url=https://irim.emich.edu/datafiles/pdf/cds2021.pdf |title=EMU Common Data Set 2021-2022 |publisher=EMU Institutional Research |access-date=2022-11-03}}</ref><ref name="cds20-21">{{cite web |title=EMU Common Data Set 2020-2021 |url=https://irim.emich.edu/datafiles/pdf/cds2020.pdf |publisher=EMU Institutional Research |access-date=2024-01-27}}</ref>
! 
!2024 !! 2023 !! 2022 !! 2021 !! 2020 
|-
! Applicants
|21,337 || 20,351 || 19,919 || 17,506 || 15,957 
|-
! Admits
|16,992 || 16,555 || 16,578 || 14,811 || 11,997 
|-
! Admit rate
|79.6 || 81.3 || 83.2 || 84.6 || 75.2 
|-
! Enrolled
|1,650 || 1,898 || 891 || 2,312 || 1,922 
|-
! Yield rate
|9.7 || 11.5 || 5.3 || 15.6 || 16.0 
|-
! ACT composite*<br /><small>(out of 36)</small>
|18-27
<small>(5%<sup>†</sup>)</small>
| 18–26<br /><small>(6%<sup>†</sup>)</small>
| 18–25<br /><small>(6%<sup>†</sup>)</small>|| 18–25<br /><small>(8%<sup>†</sup>)</small>|| 19–26
<small>(20%<sup>†</sup>)</small>
|- 
! SAT composite*<br /><small>(out of 1600)</small>
|930-1150
<small>(71%<sup>†</sup>)</small>
| 910–1150<br /><small>(71%<sup>†</sup>)</small>
| 930–1170<br /><small>(68%<sup>†</sup>)</small>|| 950–1180<br /><small>(55%<sup>†</sup>)</small>|| 980–1190
<small>(89%<sup>†</sup>)</small>
|-
| colspan="6" | * middle 50% range<br /> <sup>†</sup> percentage of first-time freshmen who chose to submit
|}
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{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; float:left; font-size:90%; margin:10px"
|+ '''Fall transfer students statistics'''<ref name="cds24-25" /><ref name="cds23-24" /><ref name="cds22-23" /><ref name="cds21-22" /><ref name="cds20-21" /><ref name="cds19-20">{{cite web |url=https://irim.emich.edu/datafiles/pdf/cds2019v4.pdf |title=EMU Common Data Set 2019-2020 |publisher=EMU Institutional Research |access-date=2022-11-03}}</ref>
! 
! 2024 !! 2023 !! 2022 !! 2021 !! 2020 !! 2019
|-
! Applicants
| 2,533 || 2,256 || 2,331 || 2,875 || 3,620 || 3,993
|-
! Admits
| 1,703 || 1,603 || 1,670 || 2,129 || 2,395 || 2,752
|-
! Admit rate
| 67.2 || 71.1 || 71.6 || 74.1 || 66.2 || 68.9
|-
! Enrolled
| 886 || 814 || 861 || 1,139 || 1,312 || 1,445
|-
! Yield rate
| 52.0 || 50.8 || 51.6 || 53.5 || 54.8 || 52.5
|}

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===Academic divisions===
{{Infobox US university ranking
| Forbes = 623
| THE_WSJ = >600
| USNWR_NU = 377 (tie)
| Wamo_NU = 202
| QS_W = 
| USNWR_W = 
}}

{|class="wikitable floatright" style="width: 22em;"
|-
| style="width:80%;"|{{center|'''College/school'''}}
| style="width:20%;"|{{center|'''Founded'''}}
|-
| College of Arts and Sciences || 1959<ref name="emich3" />
|-
| College of Education || 1959<ref name="emich3" />
|-
| Graduate School || 1959<ref name="emich1" />
|-
| College of Business  || 1964<ref name="emich1" />
|-
| College of Health and Human Services || 1975<ref name="emich1" />
|-
| GameAbove College of Engineering and Technology || 1980<ref name="emich1" />
|-
| Honors College || 2005<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.emich.edu/focus_emu/092705/honorscollege.html |title=Focus EMU Online: Feature Story |publisher=Emich.edu |date=September 27, 2005 |access-date=June 16, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120805095121/http://www.emich.edu/focus_emu/092705/honorscollege.html |archive-date=August 5, 2012}}</ref>
|}

Eastern Michigan University offers degrees and programs at the bachelor's, master's, specialist's and doctoral levels. There are more than 200 majors and minors at the undergraduate level, and more than 170 graduate programs. EMU has six Academic Divisions and eight University Sites which include satellite campuses. Just like many other large universities EMU does offer online courses and degrees.

The university has seven colleges and schools:<ref name="Emich.edu" /> College of Arts and Sciences, College of Business, College of Education, College of Health and Human Services, GameAbove College of Engineering and Technology, the Honors College, and the Graduate School. Eastern Michigan University has offered graduate courses since 1939.<ref name="Grad School info">{{cite web|title=Grad School info|url=http://www.gradschool.emich.edu/|publisher=emich.edu|access-date=June 23, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110704145916/http://gradschool.emich.edu/|archive-date=July 4, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> The Graduate School has over 2,000 graduate students enrolled in post-baccalaureate, certificate, master's, and doctoral programs.

The two oldest colleges at the university are the College of Education and the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS). The College of Arts and Sciences is also the largest academic college at Eastern Michigan University with 125 programs of study.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.emich.edu/cas/stu-whycas.html|title=Eastern Michigan University: College of Arts & Sciences|access-date=December 23, 2009|archive-date=February 15, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180215224426/http://www.emich.edu/cas/404.php|url-status=dead}}</ref> The CAS also occupies the most buildings on campus including Pray-Harrold, [[Sherzer Hall]], the Kresge Environmental Education Center, the Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology Research Facility, and [[Pease Auditorium]]. Eastern Michigan University has had a long history of developing educators since its founding in 1849. EMU prides itself as being one of the largest producers of educational personnel in the country since 1991.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.emich.edu/coe/about/history.html |title=History &#124; College of Education &#124; Eastern Michigan University – Education First |publisher=Emich.edu |access-date=June 16, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605103410/http://www.emich.edu/coe/about/history.html |archive-date=June 5, 2011}}</ref> [[Eastern Michigan University Department of Special Education|Eastern Michigan University's Department of Special Education]] is also among the oldest special education program in the United States, being started in 1923.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.emich.edu/coe/programs/undergraduate/index.html |title=Undergraduate Programs &#124; College of Education &#124; Eastern Michigan University – Education First |publisher=Emich.edu |access-date=June 16, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605103428/http://www.emich.edu/coe/programs/undergraduate/index.html |archive-date=June 5, 2011}}</ref>

The College of Business (COB) was established in 1964.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite web |url=http://www.cob.emich.edu/include/templatesubpage.cfm?id=1104 |title=Fast Facts |publisher=Cob.emich.edu |access-date=June 16, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719191400/http://www.cob.emich.edu/include/templatesubpage.cfm?id=1104 |archive-date=July 19, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 1991, a new College of Business campus was constructed in Downtown Ypsilanti on [[Michigan Avenue (Michigan)|Michigan Avenue]] with the hope of contributing to the redevelopment of the area. In 2020, EMU announced its decision to move the COB back to its Main Campus. The COB's current home is Boone Hall, located next to Cross Street in South Campus. The College of Business is known for having the first Ethos Week and Ethos Honor Society in the country.<ref name="cob.emich.edu">{{cite web |url=http://www.cob.emich.edu/media/cob_autogen/HistoryofCOB.pdf |title=Eastern Michigan University History |access-date=June 16, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719191301/http://www.cob.emich.edu/media/cob_autogen/HistoryofCOB.pdf |archive-date=July 19, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Gerding">{{cite web |last=Gerding |first=Jeff |url=http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/article/2010/03/ethos_speaker_bobb_brings_insight_integrity_to_speech#comment695 |title=The Eastern Echo |date=March 14, 2010 |access-date=June 16, 2011}}</ref>

Eastern Michigan University established the College of Human Services in 1975. Eventually the university changed the name to the College of Health and Human Services on April 21, 1982.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.emich.edu/chhs/about-history.html |title=Eastern Michigan University College of Health and Human Services |publisher=Emich.edu |date=April 21, 1982 |access-date=June 16, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605103656/http://www.emich.edu/chhs/about-history.html |archive-date=June 5, 2011}}</ref>

The most recent college of the university is the Honors College founded in 2005.<ref name="Honors Program Becomes College in 2005" /> Its predecessor program, the EMU Honors Program, was founded in 1984.<ref name="Honors Program Becomes College in 2005">{{cite web|title=Honors Program Becomes College in 2005|url=http://www.emich.edu/focus_emu/092705/honorscollege.html|publisher=emich.edu|access-date=June 23, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120805095121/http://www.emich.edu/focus_emu/092705/honorscollege.html|archive-date=August 5, 2012}}</ref>

Its most popular undergraduate majors, by 2023 graduates, were:<ref>{{Cite web |title=CollegeNavigator |url=https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=Eastern+Michigan+University&s=all&id=169798#programs |url-status=live |access-date=March 13, 2025 |website=National Center for Education Statistics}}</ref>
::Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse (335)
::Psychology (151)
::Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies (126)
::Social Work (110)
::Computer Science (84)
::Marketing/Marketing Management (83)
::Speech Communication and Rhetoric (83)
::Biology/Biological Sciences (80)
::Accounting (74)
::Business Administration and Management (74)

===Library===
The [[Bruce T. Halle Library]], opening to students in 1998, houses a collection of more than 1,000,000 items that includes extensive reference, periodical, and circulating materials such as books, microform, microfilm, sound recordings, and other items to aid students in their course work and research. It is named after [[Bruce Halle]], founder of [[Discount Tire]] and a graduate of the Michigan State Normal College. Previously, Eastern Michigan University's library had been located in Ford Hall and then the Porter Building (now home to the Eastern Michigan University College of Education).