When was university of michigan founded

Faculty families harvested peaches from the orchard of the old Rumsey farm, and a wooden fence ran along the edge of campus to keep University cows in and city cows out. In its first year in Ann Arbor, the University had two professors and seven students. There were more Regents nineteen than faculty and students combined.

The reorganized University did not have a president, but the faculty elected a presiding officer each year from their own ranks. Freshmen entering in women were not admitted to the University until took admissions examinations in mathematics, geography, Latin, Greek, and other subjects. They also had to furnish "satisfactory testimonials of good moral character.

In , Twenty-five years after the move to Ann Arbor, the University of Michigan became the largest university in the country, with enrolled students. In , the enrollment reached an all-time high of students. At that time, the University was comprised of the Medicine Department, with students; the Law Department, with students; and the Literary Department, with students. There were 33 faculty members. Today, the University of Michigan remains one of the most distinguished universities in the world and a leader in higher education.

It is consistently ranked among the nation's top universities, with over 51, students and 5, faculty at three campuses. The University of Michigan boasts of one of the largest health care complexes in the world, one of the most extensive university library systems in the country, and the some of the best computer access for students and faculty of any campus in the world.

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Not the kind of university that U-M is today, or anything close. It was more like a high school before there were high schools — an academy for students to get more training before they went on to one of the few actual American colleges of the day, such as Harvard, Princeton or Yale.

The students learned Latin, Greek and some science. There was also an elementary-type school for younger students. It was paid for largely with public funds — mostly the proceeds from selling land given for the purpose by the federal government and three Native American tribes: the Ojibwe, Odawa and Bodewadimi. And its sole purpose was to serve the public good. Only if a single building can be termed a campus. It was on Bates Street, a block or two from the site of Cadillac Square.

Most of the money to erect the building came from private donors who wanted the town, which counted about 1, people, to have a real school. It was reorganized in , but there was never enough money to actualize what the founders had planned — a Territory-wide system of free public primary schools with the University at its head.

By the late s, the sole teacher at the academy had to be paid out of student subscriptions.