Published on January 16, 2017 by Philip Poole
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Alabama News Center recently featured Samford University’s 175th anniversary and an interview with President Andrew Westmoreland about the university’s future plans.
(Editor’s note: The story is dated 2016, but actually appeared in 2017.)
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 6,101 students from 45 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 6th nationally for its Graduation Success Rate among all NCAA Division I schools.
