More than 69 courses across the University incorporate Service-Learning in classes, resulting in course-related, direct services to the poor and marginalized in our community. During the 2007-2008 school year, approximately 1,200 UDM student volunteers provided service in conjunction with approximately 140 community service agencies.

Gilbert Sunghera, S.J., from the School of Architecture's Detroit Collaborative Design Center, specializes in an architectural practice in liturgical consulting. He has had clients in New York and California, as well as a church in New Orleans for the creation of a homeless center.

The Department of Endodontics has developed the web site, Evidencebasedendo.com, as a resource for an evidence-based literature database available to the entire dental community to help justify historical and current endodontic (root canal) treatment decisions.

UDM has the only four-year engineering program in Michigan where all students obtain one full year of engineering experience prior to graduation. On graduation day 2006, 100% of UDM engineering graduates had either a position in their field or admission to excellent graduate schools.

McAuley School of Nursing is a leader in the state and region in delivering parish nursing continuing education.

The Master of Intelligence Analysis degree is designed to train students in the gathering and interpreting of information that is of strategic importance for decision-making in law enforcement, crime control, security and counter terrorist activities.

The School of Law now offers specialty courses in the School’s Law Firm Program including:

• Corporate Transaction
• Employment Discrimination
• Environmental law
• Estates and Trusts
• Family Law,
• Health Law
• Immigration,
• Intellectual Property
• International Business Transactions
• Litigation
• Real Estate Transactions
• Small Firm Business, Tax
• Toxic Torts.