The Tennessee Department of Health has designated the U of M Gambling Clinic as the state gambling addiction treatment center for the West Tennessee area. The University of Memphis is consistently ranked one of the safest large campuses in the state of Tennessee. For more than a decade, the pass rate on the bar exam for graduates of the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law has exceeded state averages. The Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music is the only doctoral degree-granting music school in the state of Tennessee and within a 300-mile radius of the city of Memphis. The Campus School at the University of Memphis has been recognized as one of the highest achieving schools in Tennessee, with 99 percent of its students scoring proficient or advanced in both reading and math. The U of M was named to the first President’s Honor Roll in 2006 for Distinguished Community Service with distinction for hurricane relief service. It has been honored every year since then. More than half of the doctoral faculty in the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders are Fellows of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). This designation is awarded to only about one percent of the 118,000 members of ASHA.
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