Ferris State University
Approximately 220 student organizations are active on campus, encompassing everything from the Chess Club to Men's and Women's Rugby; Bulldog Radio to the Juggling Club; and the Dead Poet's Society to the Paintball Club. The wide range of organizations caters to students' social, athletic, political, academic, performing arts and religious activities and interests.

Stevens Institute of Technology
Stevens is named for a distinguished family who perpetuated a tradition in American engineering, dating back to the early days of the Industrial Revolution. John Stevens, a colonel in the Revolutionary War, purchased from the State of New Jersey in 1784 the land included in the present-day 55-acre campus of the college. Before 1800, Col. Stevens was a pioneer in the development of the steamboat, a…