Ĭonstructed in 1915, Dallas Hall remains the centerpiece of the campus. Robert Stewart Hyer, previously president of Southwestern University, was appointed as the first president of the new university. However, the church's education commission instead opted to create a new institution in Dallas to serve this purpose after extensive lobbying by the Dallas Chamber of Commerce. Originally, this new institution was intended to be created in Fort Worth through a merger between Polytechnic College (now Texas Wesleyan University) and Southwestern University. At the time of the charter, church leaders saw a need to establish a Methodist institution within a metropolitan area. The university was chartered on April 17, 1911, by the southern denomination of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Meadows School of the Arts, the Moody School of Graduate and Advanced Studies, Perkins School of Theology, and the Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development. Cox School of Business, the Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, the Dedman School of Law, the Bobby B. In the 2020 academic year, the university granted over 3,827 degrees, including 315 doctorates, 1,659 master's and 1,853 bachelor's degrees and offers over 32 doctoral and over 120 masters programs from eight schools: the Edwin L. As of fall 2019, its instructional faculty is 1,151, with 754 being full-time. Īs of fall 2020, the university had 12,373 students, including 6,827 undergraduates and 5,546 postgraduates, representing the largest student body in SMU history. It is classified among ' R-2: Doctoral Universities – High Research Activity'. However, it is nonsectarian in its teaching and enrolls students of all religious affiliations. SMU was founded on April 17, 1911, by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South-now part of the United Methodist Church-in partnership with Dallas civic leaders. Southern Methodist University ( SMU) is a private research university in University Park, Texas, with a satellite campus in Taos County, New Mexico.

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