University of Memphis - Institution

Institution

A faculty of approximately 900 professors serves about 15,000 undergraduate and 5,000 graduate students.

The Daily Helmsman, the independent daily newspaper on the campus, in operation since 1925, remains a prominent student organization. In addition, many other student organizations and academic departments, such as the University of Memphis Institute for Egyptian Art and Archaeology, the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law Moot Court Board, the University of Memphis Advertising Federation and the University of Memphis chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America, play an active and involved role in the community, both nationally and internationally.

The University of Memphis attracts most of its undergraduate students from Memphis and West Tennessee, though many current undergraduate and graduate students have come from public and private schools across the southeastern United States as well as from all the other states and about 100 other nations.

Over its history, the University of Memphis has graduated many famous alumni, including U.S. Congressman Steve Cohen, actor and former U.S. senator Fred D. Thompson, historian of the American South Joe Gray Taylor, Anfernee Hardaway, NBA and former University of Memphis basketball player, and DeAngelo Williams, former All-American college football running back.

Among its most famous faculty members are Dr. Lorelei Corcoran, Professor of Egyptology; Dr. Peter J. Brand, Professor of Egyptology; Rick Bragg, Pulitzer Prize winner and Professor of Journalism; Dr. E.W. "Bill" Brody, nationally-published author and Professor of Journalism and Public Relations; Béla Bollobás, Jabie Hardin Chair Professor of Mathematics; and Dr. Donald R. Franceschetti, Professor of Physics.

The Division of Professional and Continuing Education at the University of Memphis