Methodist University, known until 2006 as Methodist College, is a private college that is historically related to the North Carolina Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church and is located in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Methodist University offers over 80 majors and concentrations in 5 undergraduate schools and 4 graduate programs in the School of Graduate Studies.
Methodist University enrolls a diverse student body from over 41 states and more than 53 countries. These students are involved in over 100 clubs and student organizations and 20 NCAA Division III athletic teams. Monarch teams have won 59 team and individual national championships in just under 50 years of competition as well as capturing 116 conference championships and amassing 286 All-Americans and 51 Academic All-Americans.
Methodist University is one of the fastest growing institutions in the southeast, having almost doubled enrollment since 1990.
Famous quotes containing the words methodist and/or university:
“When Methodist preachers come down
A-preaching that drinking is sinful,
I’ll wager the rascals a crown
They always preach best with a skinful.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)
“If not us, who? If not now, when?”
—Slogan by Czech university students in Prague, November 1989. quoted in Observer (London, Nov. 26, 1989)