In international comparison, the university occupies top positions in rankings and enjoys a distinguished academic reputation. It has been consistently ranked among the top universities in the United States by college and university rankings. As a major research center, it ranked 2nd among American universities in research expenditures and produces a large proportion of the country's publications and citations. Michigan is one of the earliest American research universities and a founding member of the Association of American Universities. International students from some 130 countries account for 15 percent of the entire student body. Undergraduate admission to the university is categorized as "most selective." Nearly half of the students are from out of state. The university's enrollment is approximately 32,000 undergraduate students and 16,000 graduate students.
Michigan has been a coeducational institution since 1871. Michigan is home to the country's oldest continuously existing legal organization, oldest international professional dental fraternity, oldest continuously running university hospital and longest-standing laboratory for interdisciplinary research in the social sciences. It affiliates with two regional universities located in Flint and Dearborn (each separately accredited universities) and operates a center located in Detroit.
Michigan has nine professional schools: the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Ross School of Business, Medical School, Law School, Ford School of Public Policy, College of Pharmacy, School of Social Work, School of Public Health, and School of Dentistry. The university consists of nineteen colleges and offers degree programs at undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral levels in some 250 disciplines. The university has been governed by an elected board of regents independently of the state since 1850, when the state's second constitution was officially adopted. The institution was moved to Ann Arbor in 1837 onto 40 acres (16 ha) of what is now known as Central Campus, a U.S. Founded in 1817 by an act of the old Michigan Territory, as the Catholepistemiad, or the University of Michigania, 20 years before the territory became a state, the university is Michigan's oldest. The University of Michigan ( U-M, UMich, or Michigan) is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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