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Samford University

Founded in 1841 in Marion, Ala., as Howard College, Samford University today is the largest private university in Alabama and consistently ranks nationally as one of the leading regional universities in the South. The college moved to the East Lake section of Birmingham in 1887. After relocating to the Birmingham suburb of Homewood in 1958, the college was renamed Samford University to honor the generosity of the Frank Park Samford family of Birmingham. The spectacular 200-acre campus is one of the most beautiful collegiate settings in the U.S.

Samford annually attracts more than 4,500 students who study in one of 23 undergraduate and graduate degree programs. There are more than 100 major fields of study in the Howard College of Arts and Sciences, Beeson Divinity School, the Orlean Bullard Beeson School of Education and Professional Studies, Cumberland School of Law, Ida V. Moffett School of Nursing, McWhorter School of Pharmacy, School of Business and School of Performing Arts .

Samford University, where the motto “nurturing persons for God, for learning, forever” is more than a phrase, it is a distinction.

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