The Commons

A long-time client for admissions, research, and consulting services, Kettering University appears in the New York Times today, with the spotlight on “the West Point of the auto industry’s” prescient efforts to expand its industry ties beyond Detroit.

Although programs in this top-notch, hands-on university have been traditionally for students pursuing industrial and automotive engineering jobs, Kettering has been proactively broadening the focus of its curriculum and its students are following the school’s lead. Applications are up 49 percent in 2009 and students are learning to adapt to the new economic realities by choosing “hot” areas such as fuel cells to bolster their future career options.

- Tom Abrahamson, Managing Director & Principal

Tags: economic downturn, higher education, technology, trends