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School for the Miners
The University of Michigan could not even compete with it and the Michigan Board of Regents recommended that their mining engineering program be discontinued (Halkola 12). The shutting down of the University of Michigan’s mining program left the Michigan Mining School as the soul educator in the field of mining for Michigan. The Michigan Mining School began to grow and under the leadership of its President Marshall E.Wadsworth it even moved campus to the more fitting location of East Houghton (mtu.edu). The institution also grew out from strictly mining to technology as well, in the early 1900s its name evolved from the Michigan School of Mining to the Michigan College of Mining and Technology (Halkola 72). Today, it sits as of the top universities in Michigan. It is now called Michigan Technological University and a few of its programs have been nationally recognized by U.S. New and World Report (mtu.edu).