A four-bedroom home on 160 acres near Marshall sold last week for $1.5 million.

Snayha Patel, an industrial engineering undergrad who came to the program from Fine Arts, found the experience “fantastic.” “I knew nothing in this field when I started.

Snayha Patel appreciates the apprenticeship’s “tactile” learning experience, having come to her studies in industrial engineering with a background in fine arts. “It’s been fantastic,” she says. “I ...