Samford University

Samford is one of the country’s leading Christian universities and offers undergraduate programs grounded in the liberal arts with an array of nationally recognized graduate and professional programs through 10 academic schools: arts, arts and sciences, business, divinity, education, health professions, law, nursing, pharmacy and public health . Founded in 1841, Samford is the 87th-oldest institution of higher learning in the United States . It enrolls 5,758 students from 48 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and 22 countries .

Samford is regularly recognized as one of the best Christian universities in the United States, receiving high marks for academic quality and value . Samford is the top-ranked university in Alabama in national rankings published by The Wall Street Journal . Additionally, The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education ranks Samford 1st in the nation for student engagement . Samford is ranked 37th nationally for best undergraduate teaching and 97th for best value by U .S . News & World Report .

According to The Wall Street Journal /Times Higher Education, Samford students are more likely to recommend their university than students at any other college or university in the country .

Among Samford’s 53,917 alumni have included more than 60 members of the U .S . Congress, eight state governors, two U .S . Supreme Court justices, one Secretary of State, four Rhodes Scholars, multiple Emmy and Grammy award-winning artists, two national championship football coaches, and recipients of the Pulitzer and Nobel Peace prizes .

The university fields 17 varsity sports—eight men’s and nine women’s—that participate at the NCAA Division I level in the Southern Conference . Samford’s athletic teams earned a 97% Graduation Success Rate by the NCAA, tying for third place among all Division I universities in the nation, along with an impressive group of peer institutions .

• Samford is ranked 1st in the nation for student engagement by The Wall Street Journal (2022) . Student engagement assesses how challenged and inspired students feel inside and outside the classroom, as well as the breadth of courses their schools offer .

• Samford is ranked 34th in the nation among private universities and 115th among all public, private and liberal arts colleges and universities analyzed for Kiplinger’s Personal

Finance’s Best College Values list (2019) .

• Samford is the top-ranked university in

Alabama in national rankings by The Wall

Street Journal (2022) .

• 97% of undergraduate alumni are working or in further study within six months of graduation (2021) .

• Samford’s athletic teams earned a 97%

Graduation Success Rate by the NCAA, tying for third place among all Division I universities in the nation, along with an impressive group of peer institutions .

• Samford is ranked 1st in Alabama and 32nd nationally by LendEdu in its list of best colleges for financial aid (2020) .