PRESIDENT Dr. Shirley C. Raines
FOUNDED 1912 as West Tennessee State Normal School
CAMPUS SIZE 1,607 acres and 237 buildings at eight sites
OPERATING BUDGET $439 million
LOCAL ECONOMIC IMPACT $1.43 billion
ENROLLMENT - FALL 2011 Total: 22,725 Undergraduate: 17,966 Graduate: 4,340 Law School: 419 Full-Time: 68% Part-Time: 32% Men: 38% Women: 62%full-time faculty
For a century, the University of Memphis has been a catalyst for progress in the city of Memphis, the state of Tennessee and the surrounding Mid-South region. From its inception as a normal school dedicated to the education of public school teachers, to its role today as an educator of technologically-savvy graduates who face a complex world, the University of Memphis has always fulfilled its current mission while looking forward to and planning for its future. Exceptional students from Tennessee, from every other state in the nation and from almost 100 countries around the world choose to attend the University of Memphis. They come here on the recommendation of their major professors at European universities; they come here to study subjects that are offered nowhere else; they come to study alongside men and women who are recognized and respected throughout the academic and scientific communities as foremost in their fields.
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