Southern Methodist University

Date: Apr 06 2015
Major: English (This Major's Salary over time)
I really enjoyed SMU. Academically, SMU offers strong educational programs. The professors are knowledgeable and experienced in their fields and are generally quite approachable, which is not the norm at many universities. Also, the classes are, on the whole taught by actual professors, not graduate assistants. After graduation, I entered both graduate school and my chosen profession. I have found in both situations that I was better prepared academically, and had more in depth knowledge in my major than many of my peers who had graduated from major public colleges and universities. SMU definitely has quality programs in business, the arts, and liberal arts. You hear all the time that you must be rich to go to SMU. This isn't entirely true. While, there are many wealthy students, there are just as many on financial aid. They're just less obvious. The school is predominantly white though, and being white myself I really can't speak to what it is like to be a minority. I do know that I had sorority sisters who were Asian, African American, and Hispanic, so it's not necessarily true that the Greek system is inherently racist. Socially, I will say that the school is heavily influenced by the Greek system, so if you are anti-Greek, this may not be the school for you. However, with that said, I think that most students find their niche. One of the StudentsReviews stated that drugs were extremely common among the Greeks. Unless things have changed a lot since I graduated, I did not find this to be true. Drinking was common, but illegal drugs, date rape and some of the other things I saw mentioned in reviews as being common place really weren't. All in all its a great school. Just make sure you know what kind of school it is.