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15-423: Over the past five years, URC universities have announced an average of one new invention every day, and collectively these discoveries have led to more than 500 license agreements for new technologies and systems. Detroit News columnist Dan Howes once wrote that the three universities together offer “the closest thing Michigan has to Silicon Valley—an intellectual powerhouse.” The URC had 137,583 students enrolled in

30-470: A CSA are at lower levels than between the counties within an MSA. CSAs represent multiple metropolitan or micropolitan areas that have an employment interchange of at least 15% (% commuting from A to B plus % commuting from B to A). CSAs often represent regions with overlapping labor and media markets. As of 2023, there are 181 combined statistical areas across the United States, plus another three in

45-412: A CSA by various combinations of adjacent metropolitan and micropolitan areas with economic ties measured by commuting patterns. CSAs retain their own designations as metropolitan or micropolitan statistical areas in their respective larger combined statistical areas. The primary distinguishing factor between a CSA and an MSA/μSA is that the social and economic ties between the individual MSAs/μSAs within

60-432: A part of another region or metropolitan area. The following cities tend to identify themselves separately from southeast Michigan and are isolated from the core counties of Oakland, Macomb, and Wayne. With 4,488,335 people in 2010, Metro Detroit was the tenth-largest metropolitan area in the United States, while Ann Arbor's metropolitan area ranked 141st with 341,847. Metropolitan areas of southeast Michigan, and parts of

75-605: Is a region in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan that is home to a majority of the state's businesses and industries as well as slightly over half of the state's population, most of whom are concentrated in Metro Detroit . It is bordered in the northeast by Lake St. Clair , to the south-east Lake Erie , and the Detroit River which connects these two lakes. Some cities are considered within southeast Michigan, while also being

90-879: Is located in the heart of the state's largest city — Detroit — in the Midtown Cultural Center . Michigan State University is located four miles east of the Michigan State Capitol , in East Lansing . The third university in the URC — the University of Michigan — is located 40 miles west of Detroit in Ann Arbor . The corridor is served by the three major Interstate Highways in Southeastern Michigan — I-75 , I-94 , and I-96 . Further enabling

105-533: Is the busiest in the area with the opening of the McNamara terminal and the now completed North Terminal. The airport is located in Romulus . Manufacturing and service industries have replaced agriculture for the most part. In rural areas of Saint Clair County , Monroe , and Livingston Counties still grow crops such as corn , sugar beets , soy beans , other types of beans, and fruits. Romeo and northern Macomb County

120-644: Is well known for its apple and peach orchards. Radio Most major Detroit radio stations, such as WJR and WWJ , can be heard in most or all of southeastern Michigan. Port Huron, Howell, Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti, Adrian, and Monroe are also served by their own locally-originating stations. National Public Radio is broadcast locally from Ann Arbor on Michigan Radio WUOM 91.7 FM and from Detroit on WDET-FM 101.9 FM. Television Major television stations include: WJBK Fox 2 Detroit ( Fox ), WXYZ Channel 7 ( ABC ), WDIV Local 4 ( NBC ), WWJ-TV CBS 62 ( CBS ) and WKBD CW 50 ( CW ). Newspaper Daily editions of

135-558: The Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News are available throughout the area. Combined Statistical Area Population Combined statistical area ( CSA ) is a United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB) term for a combination of adjacent metropolitan (MSA) and micropolitan statistical areas (μSA) across the 50 U.S. states and the territory of Puerto Rico that can demonstrate economic or social linkage. CSAs were first designated in 2003. OMB defines

150-759: The Capital Region International Airport is the most convenient—just a 20-minute commute to the MSU campus . A 2014 Economic Impact Report by Anderson Economic Group ranked the URC second in the Innovation Power Ranking when compared to seven other major university research clusters in six states, including well-known hubs such as North Carolina's Research Triangle Park, California's Innovation Hubs and Massachusetts’ Route 128 Corridor. The report also found that URC universities conferred 32,483 graduate and undergraduate degrees in 2012, more than any of

165-983: The Thumb and Flint/Tri-Cities , are grouped together by the U.S. Census Bureau with Detroit-Warren-Livonia MSA in a wider nine-county region designated the Detroit–Ann Arbor–Flint Combined Statistical Area (CSA) with a population of 5,428,000. *Denotes member counties of the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments (SEMCOG) The main economic activity is manufacturing cars. Major manufacturing cities are Warren , Sterling Heights , Dearborn (Henry Ford's childhood home) and Detroit, also called "Motor City" or "Motown". Other economic activities include banking and other service industries. Most people in Livingston, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland, Washtenaw, and Wayne Counties live in urban areas. In

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180-494: The close collaboration between these institutions, each school is under a two-hour drive of its URC peers. The main airport of the region—among the top 20 largest airports in the world—is the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (DTW). Both Wayne State University and The University of Michigan are roughly a half-hour drive from the Romulus -based airport. However, when traveling to East Lansing,

195-486: The fall of 2010. The students at the URC universities are drawn from throughout Michigan and around the world. Students from the state of Michigan accounted for 75% of total enrollment in the fall of 2009, while 15% came from elsewhere in the U.S. and the remaining 10% came from other countries. The URC institutions are all based in the southeast / south-central area of the Michigan's lower peninsula . Wayne State University

210-645: The recent years, urban sprawl has affected the areas of Canton , Commerce , Chesterfield , and Clinton townships. The metropolitan area is also home to some of the highest ranked hospitals and medical centers, Such as the Detroit Medical Center(DMC), Henry Ford Hospital, Beaumont Hospital, and the University of Michigan hospital in Ann Arbor. SEMCOG Commuter Rail is a proposed regional rail link between Ann Arbor and Detroit. The Detroit Metro Airport

225-471: The university innovation clusters the URC has benchmarked itself against since 2007. The URC also granted the highest number of medical degrees and second-highest number of high-demand degrees overall, saw its research and development spending rise to nearly $ 2.1 billion and continued to commercialize its research through patents and start-up companies. Economic Stimulus Southeast Michigan Southeast Michigan , also called southeastern Michigan ,

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