College profile | 2006-07

Dean: Professor Steven L. Crouch More info...

Student Enrollment: 4,445 undergraduates, 2,450 graduate students (fall 2006)

Freshman class: 824 students (fall 2006); average ACT composite score was 28.7; average SAT score was 1314, the highest of any college at the University; 97 percent graduated in the top 25 percent of their high school class

Degrees granted: 948 bachelor’s degrees, 445 master’s degrees, and 229 doctoral degrees (2006)

Faculty: About 400 tenured and tenure-track faculty members, including four Regents Professors, 12 National Academy of Engineering members, and one National Academy of Sciences member. More info...

Staff: About 650 professional and support staff

Departments: Aerospace engineering and mechanics, astronomy, biomedical engineering, chemical engineering and materials science, chemistry, civil engineering, computer science and engineering, electrical and computer engineering, geology and geophysics, mathematics, mechanical engineering, physics. More info...

Research initiatives: Nanotechnology, Medical Devices, Renewable Energy, and Digital Technologies

Major research centers and facilities: Characterization Facility, Digital Technology Center/Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, NSF Engineering Research Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power, NSF Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Nanofabrication Center, NSF National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics, William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute. More info...

National rankings: In the National Research Council's most recent rankings of U.S. graduate programs, 13 of the Institute of Technology's science and engineering programs were evaluated, and seven of them ranked in the 85th percentile or greater. All of the University's engineering programs evaluated by the council ranked in the top 20 nationally, and the chemical engineering program ranked first in the country. More info...

Alumni: The Institute of Technology has more than 50,000 living alumni, including 220 University of Minnesota Outstanding Achievement Award recipients. IT alumni have founded more than 4,000 active companies worldwide that employ 551,000 people and generate an annual revenue of $90 billion. In Minnesota, IT alumni have founded about 2,600 active companies that employ more than 175,000 people and generate approximately $46 billion in annual revenue.

Annual budget: The Institute of Technology's annual expenditures for FY06 were $229.26 million.

The Institute of Technology's annual revenues for FY06 were $230 million.