Memphis U
Memphis U
Memphis University is a public institution that was founded in 1912. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 17,510, its setting is urban, and the campus size is 1,600 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. University of Memphis’s ranking in the 2012 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, Tier 2. Its in-state tuition and fees are $6,767 (2011-12); out-of-state tuition and fees are $15,335 (2011-12).
Memphis U is also a public institution at which first year students can take advantage of the Fresh Connections learning communities—a group of three courses connected by one theme, such as Africans in History or even War, Peace, and Zombies. Freshmen choose a themed package of classes and take them with a small group of other first year students, who often become future study partners, connections, or friends.
All undergraduates at Memphis University can choose from more than 50 majors, and master’s students can study in more than 40 graduate programs, including in those in the Fogelman College of Business and Economics, the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, and the schools of education and engineering.
Outside the classroom, Memphis U students can join more than 70 campus clubs, pledge with about 25 fraternities and sororities, or play for many recreational sports teams. The Memphis Tigers varsity sports teams compete in the NCAA Division I Conference USA. Notable University of Memphis alumni include NFL football players Isaac Bruce, Stephen Gostkowski, Wade Smith, and DeAngelo Williams.
Memphis University was founded in 1912 by the Tennessee legislature and is one of only two doctoral high or very high research public universities in the state and is designated as “community engaged” by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
Home to 21,000 students from all 50 states and 100 foreign countries, the University of Memphis strives to provide a close community for its students through its Learning Communities, Emerging Leaders Program, Honors Program, residence life, and 180 student organizations.
Our students are National Merit finalists, Truman and Goldwater Scholars, Emerging Leaders, Honors students, and Merck Research scholars. They have won national competitions in robotics/artificial intelligence, music, journalism, finance, moot court, architecture, and mathematics. Our student athletes compete in the classroom as well as the field of athletic competition in 18 different NCAA Division I intercollegiate sports. Men’s basketball has enjoyed a 35-year tradition of excellence, including repeated trips to the NCAA tournament; the team has played in the Final Four three times.
Memphis U comprises five colleges – arts & sciences, business, education, communication & fine arts, engineering, and the University College, which offers non-traditional degrees – as well as a graduate school, and schools of law, nursing, audiology and speech-language pathology, music, urban affairs and public policy, and public health. The University offers 15 bachelor’s degrees in more than 50 majors and 70 concentrations, master’s degrees in more than 45 subjects, and doctoral degrees in 21 disciplines, in addition to the juris doctor (law) and specialist in education degrees.
Our academic programs enable our students to compete at the highest level offering world-recognized programs in education, psychology, philosophy, audiology and speech-language pathology, earthquake science, biomedical engineering, and discrete mathematics, among others. The Loewenberg School of Nursing has a longstanding 100% first-time passage rate for state licensure, and the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law graduates have the overall highest first-time bar exam passage of any law school in the State of Tennessee. The Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music is the only program in the Southeast region to offer a doctorate in music.
The University’s Fogelman College of Business and Economics is in the forefront of international business education, and the College of Education is the 8th largest in the nation. Other notable initiatives of the UofM are the Kemmons Wilson School of Hospitality and Resort Management, a gift from the world-renowned late hotelier, and the FedEx Institute of Technology, a one-of-a-kind partnership with FedEx Corporation. The University is closely connected to the community via internships and research conducted in conjunction with area schools, non-profits, and businesses. These partnerships provide students unique educational and career opportunities and generate knowledge to inform the University’s community, governmental, business and industrial partners.
The University’s academic and research efforts are closely tied to societal needs, including, groundbreaking strides in the training of teachers for urban classrooms, ongoing research into educational policy, community health and health care, addiction, economics, housing, regional planning, environmental sustainability, groundwater, earthquakes, cybersecurity, bio-hazards, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, and public safety, among others.
The University is dedicated to lifelong learning, and to making higher education accessible to as many people as possible. Toward that end, it makes significant use of online courses and offers classes at 34 off-site community locations and four satellite campuses in West Tennessee.