Company description
University of Memphis is a metropolitan research institution granting bachelors, masters, doctoral, and professional degrees.
More details
- Mission
- The University of Memphis 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. The UofM 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.
- General Information
- Selective, Large School, Public School, Urban/Major City, Co-Ed, Graduate Students - High, Total Minority - High, Black Students - High, Low Cost, Reader Service for the Blind, Handicapped Student Services, Note taking Services, Study Abroad, Advanced Placement/CLEP, Accelerated Study, Cooperative Work Experience, Reserve Officers - Training Corps (ROTC), Campus Publications, Dormitories, Foreign Student Organizations, Honor Student Organizations, Minority Student Organizations, Radio/TV Station, Religious Organizations, Social Fraternities and Sororities, Student Government, Student/Faculty Ratio - Medium
- Other Admission Requirements
- GED accepted, TOEFL test ONLY required, Financial statement NOT required, Advance deposit NOT required, Pre-application form NOT required
- Costs
- 2010-2011 In-state tuition and fees: $6,990; Out-of-state tuition and fees: $20,856
- Campus Description
- 1,178-acre, suburban campus in Memphis.
- Highest Degree Offered
- Doctoral and first-professional
- Campus Setting
- Located in a regional city
- School Type
- Public, 4-year or above
- Entrance Difficulty
- Moderately difficult
- Type
- College/University
- Level
- Four Year School
- Email
- [email protected]
- Enrollment Concentration
- Non-Traditional
- Coed Status
- Men and Women
- Highest Offering
- Doctorates
- Campus Size
- 1178 acres
- City Type
- Large City
- Selectivity
- selective
- Academic Calendar
- Semester
- Ages
- 4 And Up
- Cost
- Moderate
- Control
- Public
- Institutional Control
- Public
- Instate Tuition Fees For Grad 1 Yr
- $6242
- Setting
- urban
- Graduate Out Of State Tuition
- 16226
- Undergraduate Enrollment
- 15928
- Undergraduate Out Of State Tuition
- 15148
- Application Deadline
- 1-May
- Instate Tuition For Undergrad For 1 Yr
- $4978
- On Campus Room And Board Charges
- $7014
- Percentage Of Students Admitted
- 66.16
- Room Charge For 1 Yr On Sharing With 1 Person
- $3480
- Year Founded
- 1912
- Accredited
- true
- Graduate Enrollment
- 4740
- Graduate In State Tuition
- 6162
- Graduate Number Of Females
- 2848
- Graduate Number Of Males
- 1892
- Typical Room And Board
- 6000
- Typical Room Cost
- 4222
- Undergraduate In State Tuition
- 5084
- Undergraduate Number Of Females
- 9655
- Undergraduate Number Of Males
- 6273
- Founded In
- 1912
- Instate Per Credit Hr For Pt Grad
- $330
- Instate Per Credit Hr For Pt Undergrad
- $210
- Total Number Of Admissions
- 3986
- Total Number Of Applicants
- 6025
- Books Cost (estimate)
- 450
- International Enrollment
- 668
- Graduate Application Fee
- $35
- International Application Fee
- $50
- Undergraduate Application Fee
- $25
- Application Fee
- $25
- Percent African American
- 37
- Percent Asian
- 2
- Percent Hispanic
- 1
- Percent Out Of State Students
- 7
- Mailing Address Available Only
- N
- Web Site
- http://www.memphis.edu/
