The excellence of Lawrence Technological University’s programs is recognized by independent comparative guidebooks and other organizations, such as U.S. News & World Report, Princeton Review, the Brookings Institution, PayScale, and more.
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Research Activity Designation: Research Colleges and Universities
The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education has classified Lawrence Technological University to its new R-Research Colleges and Universities category.
The reclassification recognizes recent strong growth in Lawrence Tech’s research activity, including sponsored research funding and investment in research scholarship.
The Carnegie Classifications of Institutions of Higher Education are a framework for categorizing colleges and universities in the United States. The classifications are based on an institution’s mission, function, and empirical data. Established in 1970 and revised numerous times since, the classifications are used by researchers, policymakers, and funders to benchmark postsecondary institutions. The R classification is new, part of a 2025 revision of Carnegie’s classifications.
Colleges and universities in the R category must have sponsored research funding of at least $2.5 million a year, a mark easily surpassed by LTU.
Lawrence Tech’s sponsored research funding has grown from $1.8 million in 2020-21 to $3.1 million in 2021-22, $4.6 million in 2022-23, and more than $9 million in 2023-24. Research funding comes from industry partners and government agencies such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.
Carnegie Elective Classification for Community Engagement
Lawrence Technological University was chosen as one of 361 U.S. colleges and universities to receive the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s 2015 Community Engagement Classification, which recognizes an institution’s commitment to community engagement. Lawrence Tech was first added to this list in 2008.
To learn more, visit carnegieclassifications.acenet.edu/elective-classifications/community-engagement.
Lawrence Technological University ranks in the top tier of U.S. News & World Report’s America’s 2025 Best Colleges and continues to score high in the most prestigious categories including being recognized as a “Best Value Schools.”
LTU is also in the top quarter of the “Midwest Regional Universities” rankings and again is on the “Top Performers in Social Mobility” list, which measures the graduation rate of economically disadvantaged students. U.S. News also recognized Lawrence Tech as a top college for veterans. LTU’s Business programs, Undergraduate Engineering programs, and Computer Science programs were also ranked well.
U.S. News rankings are based on data from proprietary surveys and reliable third-party sources, which look at student retention rates, graduation rates, graduate indebtedness, assessments of academic quality by peer institutions, the student-faculty ratio, class sizes, test scores and grades of incoming students, the level of alumni giving, and the strength of the faculty.
For more, visit www.usnews.com/best-colleges/lawrence-tech-2279
Lawrence Technological University is one of the nation’s best institutions for undergraduates, according to “The Best 390 Colleges: 2025 Edition,” the annual profile of America’s top colleges and universities published by the educational services company Princeton Review.
The Princeton Review chose the colleges for its book based on data it collects annually from surveys of 2,000 college administrators about their institutions’ academic offerings. For its selection of profiled schools for the book, the company also reviews data from its surveys of college students attending the schools. Only about 14% of America’s 2,700 four-year colleges make the book.
LTU was also featured on Princeton Review’s “Best Midwestern” colleges and “Best Green Colleges” list. Only 151 of more than 600 four-year colleges in Michigan and nine other Midwestern states made the Best Midwestern list. Just 511 of the nation’s 2,700 four-year colleges made the Green Colleges list.
The Princeton Review does not rank the colleges in the book from 1 to 390. The company’s student survey asked 168,000 students to rate their colleges on dozens of topics and report on their campus experiences. Information on the survey process and methodology for the ranking lists can be found at princetonreview.com/college-rankings/ranking-methodology.
Lawrence Tech earned the 2024-25 Military Friendly School designation from Viqtory, a publisher of several military-focused magazines and websites including GI Jobs. This is the latest in many veteran-focused accolades. One key reason for the recognition is that Lawrence Tech offers a 15 percent tuition discount to all active military, inactive, reserve, or retired military. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has also designated Lawrence Tech as a “Yellow Ribbon School” for providing up to $5,500 per year in aid to qualified veterans.
“Lawrence Tech offers a special welcome and continuing services for all those who have served our nation in the armed forces, who defend America’s freedom and are willing to make the ultimate sacrifice,” said Tarek M. Sobh, LTU president.
Officials at Viqtory said universities earning the Military Friendly designation were evaluated using both public data sources for more than 8,800 institutions of higher education in the United States, as well as responses from a proprietary survey. More than 1,800 schools participated in the 2024-2025 survey, with 537 earning Military Friendly awards.
For more information about Lawrence Tech’s commitment to attracting and supporting service veteran students, visit ltu.edu/admissions/financial-aid/military or contact Department of Defense Certified Compliance Officer Michelle Hines at mhines@ltu.edu or (248) 204-2110.
In a higher education landscape often dominated by rankings and test scores, Lawrence Technological University has been recognized for what truly matters: a transformative undergraduate experience. For the 2025-26 academic year, LTU has been named a Colleges of Distinction, a designation awarded to schools whose commitment to engaged, experiential education sets them apart.
This recognition is based on Colleges of Distinction’s evaluating criteria known as the Four Distinctions: Engaged Students, Great Teaching, Vibrant Community, and Successful Outcomes. Through extensive research and interviews, Colleges of Distinction identifies institutions that make a meaningful impact on students’ lives, not just ones that fight their way to the top of rankings lists.
“LTU has crafted a campus culture where students are empowered to take ownership of their learning,” said Colleges of Distinction Chief Operating Officer Tyson Schritter. “Its programs reflect the kind of innovation and intentionality that prepare students for life after graduation.”
Unlike rankings that focus on prestige-driven metrics, Colleges of Distinction highlights schools that champion educational impact. That includes everything from first-year seminars and collaborative projects to undergraduate research, global learning, and internships. LTU’s inclusion is a result of its commitment to these high-impact practices and the personalized support it offers students throughout their college journey.
“We’ve never believed in ranking schools,” Schritter continued. “Our goal is to celebrate institutions that help students find their place, their purpose, and their potential. LTU stands out for creating an environment where students thrive not just academically, but as whole people.” View LTU’s profile. Learn more about LTU’s programs.
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Lawrence Technological University was ranked on the 2025 Best Online Master’s Degrees in Industrial Engineering by OnlineU.com, a publisher of rankings of online university programs since 2004. More at www.onlineu.com/degrees/masters-industrial-engineering.
Association of Independent Technological Universities (AITU) Established in 1957, the Association of Independent Technological Universities (AITU) is an organization of leading American technological institutions whose mission is to exchange ideas and best practices; to advance engineering, science, and professional education; and to inspire innovation.
Members are:
Learn more at theaitu.com.
Lawrence Technological University and the 19 other colleges and universities that comprise the Kern Entrepreneurship Education Network (KEEN) were awarded a Gold Edison Award in the category of Collaborative Networks and Support at the Edison Awards 25th anniversary celebration on April 28, 2012 in New York City.
The Edison Awards promote the time-tested characteristics of innovation of visionaries such as Thomas Edison. The Edison Best New Product Awards have recognized and honored some of the most innovative products, services and business leaders in the world.
The collegiate engineering programs in the KEEN network were recognized for their collaborative work together to instill the entrepreneurial mindset in all of the nearly 19,000 students they collectively teach. In addition to the rigorous technical fundamentals they offer as part of their normal engineering curricula, these engineering programs offer experiential opportunities aimed at instilling in the students a set of professional skills necessary for their future work.
In 2009, Lawrence Tech was awarded a five-year, $1.1 million grant from the Kern Family Foundation to further integrate the entrepreneurial mindset in the education of undergraduate engineering students.
In 2010, Lawrence Tech and five other KEEN universities formed the Dynamic Compass Network (DCN) to share innovative approaches to entrepreneurial education in curricular innovation, faculty excellence, a community of practitioners, peer collaboration, continuous improvement, and experiential learning.
Lawrence Tech took the lead by implementing a pilot project that provided benchmarks for the network.
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