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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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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.
LTU placed in the top 10% of colleges and universities nationwide in the 2024 PayScale Salary Report. LTU has the best ranking among colleges in the metropolitan Detroit region.
Alumni with a bachelor’s degree earned an average salary of $70,900 early in their careers and $137,200 average salary by mid-career.
The PayScale surveys document that students get the best return on their college investment by majoring in science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM). More than half of LTU graduates (51 percent) included in the PayScale survey majored in STEM subjects, which was also true for most of the other high-ranking colleges. According to the survey, popular employers for LTU alumni are Ford Motor Company, General Motors Co., Mubea, NORR, and ZF TRW Automotive Holdings Corp. among others.
For more, visit PayScale.
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.
The prestigious Brookings Institution has consistently shown Lawrence Technological University as providing value to students and alumni. The most recent study (from 2015) ranked Lawrence Technological University fifth in the country for providing the most value-added in preparing its graduates for well-paying occupations.
The study focused on the “value-added” from a variety of quality measures and showed that Lawrence Tech provides a +21.5% value-added benefit to mid-career earnings of the typical graduate. The “value of alumni skills” received a score of 96 (out of a possible 100) and “curriculum value” had a score of 93 (out of a possible 100). “Share of graduates prepared to work in occupations requiring STEM knowledge” also received a score of 93.
The goal of the Brookings studies are to go beyond the traditional rankings that reward colleges that primarily admit rich, smart students who can be expected to do better in their careers than most college graduates. Instead, the Brookings researchers wanted to determine if colleges actually made a difference in preparing their students for successful careers
That report encompassed more data sources and covered many more of the over 6,100 two- and four-year colleges than the college rankings from U.S. News & World Report. It seeks to take into account student profiles and their majors when comparing the career outcomes of alumni from different colleges. The yardstick became the value-added by a college in comparison to its peer group.
The Brookings study noted that the five quality factors strongly associated with more successful economic outcomes for alumni are curriculum value, alumni skills, STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) orientation, completion rates, and student aid.
The study found that LTU added 18 percent more value – virtually the same as the California Institute of Technology – with respect to occupational earnings power compared to four-year institutions with similar characteristics and students. The study found that alumni skills, the share of graduates majoring in STEM fields and curriculum value strongly predict a college’s value added in preparing its graduates for well-paying occupations.
For more, visit Brookings Institution
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.
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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.
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.
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