Attracting And Retaining The Best Talent To Michigan

The Michigan Economic Development Corporation and the Presidents Council, State Universities of Michigan released the study showing a large majority of technically educated Michigan university students remain in the state after graduation. Researchers tracked the patterns of approximately 30,000 high-tech sector graduates from 1997 through 2000, and found Michigan retained 79 percent of graduates in the life sciences, information technology and engineering sectors who entered the workforce in high-tech positions.