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Samford University
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We nurture persons -- for God, for learning, forever
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1842 <br> (as Howard College)
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Private
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President <!-- change as needed old template said President -->
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Thomas E Corts
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Homewood
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Alabama
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USA
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2,882
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1,558
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graduate
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264
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Suburb an, 8,180 acres (32 km&2)
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Bulldogs
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School Colors
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Red and Blue
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is an
Private ,
Coeducational ,
Baptist -affiliated
University located in
Homewood ,
Alabama , (a suburb of
Birmingham ). Samford currently ranks number three in the South among master's degree institutions in this year's U.S. News & World Report rankings of America's Best Colleges.
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Samford was founded as on
January 3 ,
1842 , in
Marion, Alabama . In
1887 the school relocated to the East Lake community of Birmingham.
Women were first admitted to Howard College in
1895 , and the college officially became coeducational in
1913 . One year later the school established its Teacher Education Division. In
1920 the school joined the Southern Association of Colleges and in
1927 it added its
Pharmacy school.
In
1951 , the school acquired the
Cumberland School Of Law from
Cumberland University in
Lebanon ,
Tennessee .
Under the leadership of President Harwell Goodwin Davis the college looked to relocate again and on
June 11 ,
1953 Howard College broke ground on its third campus in the Shades Valley just south of Birmingham. The school occupied its new campus in
1957 .
In
1965 Howard reinstituted its master's degree program. This led to the college's elevation to university status on November 9, 1965. The school was renamed
in honor of Frank Park Samford, chairman of the Board of Trustees and to that time, the institution's most generous individual benefactor, because there was already a
Howard University in
Washington, D.C. .
The Ida V. Moffett School of Nursing owned by the Baptist Medical Center of Birmingham, was added to the University in
1973 . In
1988 , the Beeson School of Divinity was established through donations from Ralph W. Beeson.
The University now consists of the Howard College of Arts and Sciences, School of Business, Orlean Bullard Beeson School of Education and Professional Studies, School of Performing Arts, Ida V. Moffett School of Nursing, McWhorter School of Pharmacy, Beeson School of Divinity, and Cumberland School of Law.
