Western Michigan University is one of just four Michigan public universities included in the U.S. News & World Report's annual list of top-tier national universities. The publication's 2012 ranking of more than 1,500 four-year colleges and universities became available Sept. 18 in a print guidebook on newsstands.
Excerpt: Western Michigan University is a public institution that was founded in 1903. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 20,054, its setting is urban, and the campus size is 1,200 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Western Michigan University's ranking in the 2013 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, 189.
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Source: U.S. News and World Report
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