1. Did you know SMU was founded because of a conflict between the United Methodist Church and Vanderbilt University? Founded in 1911 by what is now The United Methodist Church, in 1914, the church and Vanderbilt cut ties and made SMU its flagship institution and therefore SMU opened with support from Dallas leaders.
2.motto="The truth will make you free."
3.Legend has it there’s a connection between Ford Mustangs and the SMU Mustangs, but others have also said it’s simply a coincidence. Do you think there’s such thing as coincidence?!
4.Former First Lady Laura Bush graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1968 with a degree in education, and went on to teach the second grade after graduation!
5. The all-time great basketball coach, Larry Brown is currently the head coach of the SMU basketball team. He is the first, and so far only, man to coach teams to win both NCAA (1988) and NBA (2004) titles.
6.It should come as no surprise, but there are currently 9 active Mustangs playing in the NFL!
7. SMU’s Meadows Museum houses one the largest and most comprehensive collections of Spanish art outside of Spain.
8.Students come from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and approximately 90 foreign countries, and represent diverse economic, ethnic, and religious backgrounds.
9. SMU has nine libraries! You won’t run out of places to study, and for those lucky ones, you’ll even get to access the largest private collection of research materials in the Southwest! Visit our another post to discover them all.
Visit: http://smumemoirs.blogspot.com/2017/04/6-prettiest-places-to-study-smu-check.html
10. SMU is one of the few universities to have a voting student member of its Board of Trustees. Nearly 200 campus organizations provide other opportunities for involvement.
11. Any Gilmore Girls fans out there? Lauren Graham, who plays Lorelai Gilmore, got her Master of Fine Arts degree in Acting Performance from SMU!
Source:
https://www.admitsee.com/blog/10-fun-facts-about-southern-methodist-university
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2.motto="The truth will make you free."
3.Legend has it there’s a connection between Ford Mustangs and the SMU Mustangs, but others have also said it’s simply a coincidence. Do you think there’s such thing as coincidence?!
4.Former First Lady Laura Bush graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1968 with a degree in education, and went on to teach the second grade after graduation!
5. The all-time great basketball coach, Larry Brown is currently the head coach of the SMU basketball team. He is the first, and so far only, man to coach teams to win both NCAA (1988) and NBA (2004) titles.
6.It should come as no surprise, but there are currently 9 active Mustangs playing in the NFL!
7. SMU’s Meadows Museum houses one the largest and most comprehensive collections of Spanish art outside of Spain.
8.Students come from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and approximately 90 foreign countries, and represent diverse economic, ethnic, and religious backgrounds.
9. SMU has nine libraries! You won’t run out of places to study, and for those lucky ones, you’ll even get to access the largest private collection of research materials in the Southwest! Visit our another post to discover them all.
Visit: http://smumemoirs.blogspot.com/2017/04/6-prettiest-places-to-study-smu-check.html
10. SMU is one of the few universities to have a voting student member of its Board of Trustees. Nearly 200 campus organizations provide other opportunities for involvement.
11. Any Gilmore Girls fans out there? Lauren Graham, who plays Lorelai Gilmore, got her Master of Fine Arts degree in Acting Performance from SMU!
Source:
https://www.admitsee.com/blog/10-fun-facts-about-southern-methodist-university
http://008437smu.weebly.com/fun-facts.html
A good experience indeed !!!
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ReplyDeleteData has been taken most of my time.. never got a chance to attend any arts performance at Meadows.
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