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University Wide:
#6 most beautiful college campuses in America by the Jan. 29, 2016, edition of Conde Naste travel magazine ranked SMU among the 20 most beautiful college campuses in America
http://www.cntraveler.com/galleries/201 ... -america/6

#14 among America's Most Entrepreneurial Universities 2015 by the August 17, 2015 issue of Forbes Magazine
http://www.forbes.com/sites/liyanchen/2 ... d0b5101084

#64 largest endowments of any university in the United States and Canada by the Jan. 26, 2016 edition of the NACUBO Study
http://www.nacubo.org/Documents/Endowme ... Values.pdf

Cox School of Business:
Full-time MBA
#20 in job placement by Bloomberg BusinessWeek for the Class of 2015 out of 177 ranked schools.
#22 for potential to network by The Economist in the world, and among the top 30 schools in the world for breadth of alumni network, alumni effectiveness and faculty quality.
#32 by Bloomberg BusinessWeek ranks in the U.S.
#37 based on the return on investment graduates earned after five years by Forbes Magazine in the U.S. This biennial ranking among the nation’s business schools determines where students’ MBA investments pay off the most.

Professional MBA
#5 for post-MBA outcomes by Bloomberg BusinessWeek in the country
#7 in the nation for part-time MBA programs by Bloomberg BusinessWeek. PMBA graduates praised the program for post-graduation career success.
#37 in the nation by U.S. News & World Report

Executive MBA
#3 worldwide by Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Cox EMBA graduates gave Cox an “A+” across the board for teaching, curriculum and student support, earning the SMU Cox EMBA program the #1 spot in the publication’s graduate poll.
#13 in the nation by the U.S. News & World Report
#13 in the world by The Economist

BBA
#8 among “Schools for Geniuses” in the most recent Bloomberg BusinessWeek survey.
#21 in the nation by Bloomberg BusinessWeek and gives Cox a grade of “A+” in teaching quality, facilities & services and job placement.

Program and Department Rankings
#4 in the “Top 10 U.S. schools for a major in marketing.” USA Today’s “College Factual”
#7 in the “Top 10 colleges for a major in finance.” USA Today’s “College Factual”
#8 among the top undergraduate business schools for accounting in the nation by Bloomberg BusinessWeek
#10 in finance, the SMU Cox MBA program is ranked by the Financial Times

https://www.smu.edu/Cox/AboutCox/RankingsAndAcclaim

SMU Guildhall is a premier graduate video game education program, ranked #2 by the Princeton Review's "Top 25 Graduate Schools to Study Game Design for 2016", and first in the world to offer a Master of Interactive Technology degree.
http://www.princetonreview.com/press/ga ... ss-release

Planning to update this throughout the year!

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Some other stuff I posted a few years ago

Dallas is 3rd or 4th? in # of Fortune 500 companies, including ATT, SW Airlines and Dr Pepper, 3 major CFB sponsors.

5th largest TV Market, largest TV Market in South/Southeast.

With 5 members in the NFL HOF, SMU has more individuals than any other school in Texas, Oklahoma or the Southeast besides Alabama and University of Miami.

SMU had produced 2nd most Chief Executives at Fortune 50 companies (source DMN).

2 SMU alumni are current NFL owners.

SMU Law school had the most billionaire graduates (source DMN).

one is lamar hunt
who is other smu alum nfl owner

Irsay-Colts

I seriously doubt there are a dozen schools in the world outside of US & Canada with endowments over $1.5 Billion, in other words, SMU is in the Top 80 in the world.

Meadows Art - Numero Uno

https://www.smu.edu/Meadows/NewsAndEvents/News/2014/140620-SMUMeadowsNamedTopMusicSchoolinUS

http://zoomtens.com/check-out-the-10-best-colleges-for-dance-performance-in-the-us/

Dance #6

Also, Princeton Review has us at #2 in most beautiful campus

Woo hoo!

Number 1 most beautiful campus:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/conde-nas ... 53626.html

indianmustang wrote:one is lamar hunt
who is other smu alum nfl owner

I think you mean Clark Hunt. Lamar passed away almost 10 years ago.

SoCal_Pony wrote:I seriously doubt there are a dozen schools in the world outside of US & Canada with endowments over $1.5 Billion, in other words, SMU is in the Top 80 in the world.

Meadows Art - Numero Uno

https://www.smu.edu/Meadows/NewsAndEvents/News/2014/140620-SMUMeadowsNamedTopMusicSchoolinUS

These rankings are about three years old and can not vouch for their authenticity and accuracy but you're right on the money. SMU is comfortably in the top 75!

The World’s 50 Wealthiest Universities
http://www.nonprofitcollegesonline.com/ ... the-world/

The 100 Richest Universities: Their Generosity and Commitment to Research
http://www.thebestschools.org/features/ ... -research/?

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology – Thuwal, Saudi Arabia ($20 billion)
University of Cambridge – Cambridge, U.K. (8.1 billion)
University of Oxford – Oxford, U.K. ($7 billion)
King Saud University – Riyadh, Saudi Arabia ($2.7 billion)
National University of Singapore – Kent Ridge, Singapore ($1.8 billion or 2.54 billion)
Osaka University – Osaka, Japan ($2.3 billion)
Kyoto University – Kyoto, Japan ($2.2 billion)
Nanyang Technological University – Jurong, Singapore ($1.8 billion)
University of Sydney ($1.4 billion)
University of Melbourne (1.37 billion)
University of Copenhagen ($1.01 billion)
Central European University ($880 million)

I though our endowment was around $1.5 billion before the 2d Century push which brought in an additional $1 billion. Though I looked up that initial figure several years back.

PoconoPony wrote:I though our endowment was around $1.5 billion before the 2d Century push which brought in an additional $1 billion. Though I looked up that initial figure several years back.

2 things: 1) The endowment took a hit in the last financial crisis (as did all investments) but is well above pre-financial crisis level. 2) most of that $1 bn capital campaign did not go to the endowment. It was heavily geared towards overhauling the university's facilities and campus.

WFAA just reported we aren't a Top 50 most beautiful Christian campus

http://www.christianuniversitiesonline. ... the-world/

I bet we could beat all of them in football and basketball with the exception of perhaps Baylor football.

smupony94 wrote:WFAA just reported we aren't a Top 50 most beautiful Christian campus

http://www.christianuniversitiesonline. ... the-world/

They must've asked Pitino if we are a Christian school

Dallas Baptist owns us