Michigan Tech’s Essential Education initiative was developed to prepare students to be leaders in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Essential Education signals that the skills, abilities, and mindsets facilitated by a broad education in the foundational disciplinary areas of the sciences, math, social sciences, arts, and humanities are essential to students’ educational and professional development. This forward-thinking curriculum prepares students for careers students for careers that don’t exist today.
Michigan Tech’s Essential Education website has just gone live. You can visit the new website here: https://www.mtu.edu/essential-ed/. This public-facing site provides more information on the why and how of Michigan Tech’s Essential Education program, which formally launches in the Fall of 2025 for our first-year students and scales to capacity by the 2027-28 academic year.
Special thanks to Michigan Tech’s University Marketing and Communications team, as well as Michigan Tech’s Essential Education Marketing and Communication Advisory Board, and the Essential Education Implementation Leadership Team for their work on constructing this website.