Academic Profile
Wayne State's comprehensive academic offerings are divided among 13 schools and colleges: the School of Business Administration, the College of Education, the College of Engineering, the College of Fine, Performing, and Communication Arts, the Graduate School, the Law School, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the College of Library and Information Science, the School of Medicine, the College of Nursing, the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, the Irvin D. Reid Honors College, and the School of Social Work. bxc Fall 2009 enrollment for the University was 31,786 students, the 28th-largest enrollment among the United States' 270 national, public, four-year, doctoral-degree-granting institutions. WSU also has the second largest international enrollment in Michigan with 2,783 international students and 750 visiting scholars from almost 100 countries. With more than 1,000 students, Wayne State University School of Medicine is the largest single-campus medical school, and the third-largest overall, in the United States. The School of Medicine is the first medical school in the country to implement a comprehensive radiology curriculum intertwined throughout the four year M.D. Course as an extension of the Advanced Diagnostic Ultrasound in Microgravity Study.
Wayne State University is Michigan's only urban research university, and is renowned particularly for its contributions in the sciences. Wayne State University is classified as a Research Intensive University (Very High research activity), or RU/VH, by the Carnegie Foundation, the same classification as the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Michigan State University, Harvard, and Stanford. Wayne State is a constitutionally autonomous educational institution in the State of Michigan along with Michigan and Michigan State.
According to the 2006 Academic Ranking of World Universities, Wayne State University ranked in the 201-300 range worldwide, placing in the same tier as Brandeis University, Georgetown University, George Washington University, Syracuse University, University of Notre Dame, and Wake Forest University, among others. Wayne State ranked 63rd among American universities according to the National Science Foundation Research Rankings. The 2010 "America's Best Colleges" list compiled by US News and World Report placed Wayne State in the Second Tier among "national", doctoral degree-granting institutions within the United States.
Washington Monthly 2011 National Universities Rank Wayne State University - 123 in USA.
Times Higher Education of UK 2011-2012 Rank Wayne State University - 251-275 in North America.
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