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Kettering University
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Kettering University
Kettering University in Flint, Mich., is the country's most advanced professional cooperative education program, delivering co-op jobs and up to $65,000 in co-op wages to 100 percent of its undergraduates. In-demand degrees are offered at the bachelor and master levels and Kettering now offers a pre-med course of study that has paved a path into the country's top medical schools.
Kettering offers accredited undergraduate degrees in chemical, computer, electrical, industrial and mechanical engineering, applied math, applied physics, engineering physics, biochemistry, chemistry, computer science and business. Students customize their degree with 40 minors, concentrations and specialties, such as bioengineering, fuel cells & hybrids, acoustics, computer gaming, system & data security, or pre-med and pre-law. At the graduate level, Kettering offers master's degrees, including a highly-individualized MBA program.
Founded in 1919, Kettering is built on a tradition of cooperative education and the preparation of future leaders for a global society. Kettering ranks consistently among the top specialty schools in engineering in the nation by “U.S. News & World Report” in the category of undergraduate engineering programs without a Ph.D. The University also is consistently ranked as a “Best Midwestern College.”
Kettering alumni hold leadership positions in business and industry throughout the country. Some of Kettering’s most well known graduates include Bob Kagle ’78, a venture capitalist who helped establish e-bay and priceline.com; Joe Spielman ’68, a retired vice president at General Motors who helped keep the Corvette in production and has helped generations of engineers be successful in the automotive industry; Dane Miller ’69, president and CEO of Biomet and Jim McCaslin ’74, president and COO of Harley Davidson Motor Company.
The Kettering campus is 60 miles from Ann Arbor, Detroit and Lansing. In 2003, Kettering opened the C.S. Mott Engineering and Science Center, a $42 million project with state-of-the-art Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry and BioChemistry resources. The Mott Center is also home to the Center for Fuel Cell Systems and Powertrain Integration, a leading fuel cell research and education center, and the country’s only crash safety lab focused on undergraduate research.
To learn more about Kettering, visit www.kettering.edu, or call (800) 955-4464.