Nine of the 12 Michigan public universities are lobbying lawmakers to reject a format that would separate their state aid budget bill from Michigan's Big 3 public universities: Wayne State University, Michigan State University and the University of Michigan. The smaller schools want to retain university budgets in one bill fearing that separating the budget bills could give the Big 3 more money at the expense of the 12. The Big 3 maintain that they are different because they have medical schools carrying higher costs than a typical undergraduate department, as well as technology transfer programs and research and development operations far bigger than smaller universities. The AP article ran in the Lansing State Journal, Mlive.com, WLNS-TV Channel 6 (Lansing), WILX-TV Channel 10 (Lansing), WLBC-TV Channel 6 (Marquette).