- Top 3 Majors: ME-EM 24%, Civil Engineering 19%, EE 18%
- 1959 – Two buses brought fifty-two women to Michigan Tech for the Winter Carnival Sno-Ball. A tradition begins.
- 1959 – Harold Meese is named Dean of Students (a post he held until 1983)
- 1960 – The Sheldon Heights (Lower Daniell Heights) Apartments were opened for married students.