Published on November 4, 2019
Share this on:
On Friday and Saturday we’ll welcome thousands of alums and their family members and friends back to campus. I’m reminded this morning of a recent conversation with one of those alums, chatting with me about his college experience. He recounted his most difficult course at Samford, taught by a faculty member with high expectations. “I never worked harder in college than in that course, and I learned more in that course than in any other,” the graduate said to me.
The world is better because of the high expectations of the Samford faculty.
Located in the Homewood suburb of Birmingham, Alabama, Samford is a leading Christian university offering undergraduate programs grounded in the liberal arts with an array of nationally recognized graduate and professional schools. Founded in 1841, Samford is the 87th-oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Samford enrolls 6,324 students from 44 states, Puerto Rico and 16 countries in its 10 academic schools: arts, arts and sciences, business, divinity, education, health professions, law, nursing, pharmacy and public health. Samford fields 17 athletic teams that compete in the tradition-rich Southern Conference and ranks with the second-highest score in the nation for its 98% Graduation Success Rate among all NCAA Division I schools.
