From the Detroit Free Press:
“University of Detroit Mercy to open campus in Novi, first outside city of Detroit“
https://www.freep.com/story/news/educat ... 626622001/
Not sure if this is really the first campus outside the city. In 1982, the University trustees authorized what the school officially titled the “Colombiere Campus” at the Colombiere Conference & Retreat Center in Clarkston, Michigan. Enrollment projections for this location never were fully realized and programs there were eventually discontinued in 1989.