The University of Michigan is one of America’s premier institutions of higher learning. Insofar as overall research publication output is concerned, it stands fourth behind Harvard, Stanford, and MIT among U.S. universities. Alumni luminaries include Tom Brady, James Earl Jones, Sanjay Gupta, Arthur Miller, Tom Hayden, Gilda Radner, David Alan Grier, Gerald Ford, Lucy Lie, Mike Wallace, Derek Jeter, among many others.