SMU Facts

Rankings & Recognition

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has raised SMU’s classification to a university with “high research activity.”
SMU ranks in the top one-fourth of the “best national universities” in U.S. News & World Report’s rankings. In the 2013 report, SMU ranks 58 among 280 national universities, an increase of four points from 2012.
Cox School of Business is one of the few schools in the nation with three MBA programs ranked in the top 30, according to Bloomberg Businessweek.
SMU has ranked as the top school in its conference for 11 of the last 15 years in the Directors’ Cup Division I overall athletic rankings.