Campus of Michigan Technological University

Michigan Technological University's campus sits on 925 acres (374 ha) on a bluff overlooking Portage Lake.

The main Michigan Tech campus is located mainly on US 41 in Houghton, Michigan. It is the safest campus in Michigan, and the third safest in the United States according to Reader's Digest. Many of the buildings are built up, as opposed to short and wide, which reduces the size of the campus. Michigan Tech also maintains the following areas:

In addition, the offices of the Michigan Tech Fund are located in the Citizens Bank Building in Hancock. Other office areas are at the UPPCO building in Houghton.

Faculty are involved in several distance education programs, with clients such as General Motors.

The Portage Lake Golf Course opened for play in April 1902. In 1945 the members could no longer support the needs of the course and sold it to Michigan Tech for the amount of one dollar. Since then many different improvements have been made such as the addition of another nine holes in 1969. Then in 1984 the new clubhouse was constructed in place of the original clubhouse. In 1996 a sprinkler system was installed to modernize the course and keep it playable. The Portage Lake Golf Course is located only a few miles from the Michigan Tech campus on US-41.

The Chemical Sciences and Engineering Building, Chem Sci for short, was completed in 1969 and originally housed the Chemical Engineering, Chemical, Metallurgy, Biological Sciences, and Humanities departments. It replaced the second oldest building on campus, the materials processing laboratory, which had housed the shops for several engineering departments. Since the building has existed, it has had only a few accidents, the most notable two being a ventilation problem causing lead fumes to build up in the labs and the explosion of a batch of volatile chemicals being used in a polymer synthesis process which nearly killed a research assistant, Michael Abbott. Chem Sci was built for easy modification of key systems in order to keep up with the needs of the lab facilities. One example of this is the design of the ventilation system, which was placed on the outside of the building and covered in the same red brick as the rest of the structure for easy access during renovations.

Dillman Hall is home to the Engineering Fundamentals Department (EF). EF houses two core academic program of Michigan Tech: the First Year Engineering Program, and a generalist engineering, undergraduate degree program, The First Year Engineering Program has been in place at Tech since the founding of EF in 2000, and is one of the oldest of common first year engineering programs in the United States. Each year, approximately 1,000 engineering students matriculate to Tech, and these "newbies" will spend their first year as apprentice engineers in the common first year engineering program. The core reasons for a common first year in engineering are to enable entering students to begin their preparation for higher level engineering courses, to settle into the rigors of an intensive, four year experience leading to the undergraduate degree in their chosen major, and to lay the ground work for a reasoned and systematic selection of the engineering major that is a best fit for the aspirations and abilities of each first year engineering student.

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