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Memphis College of Art is dedicated to teaching the practice, history, and appreciation of visual art and design while challenging all students to reach their highest individual potential. We prepare graduates to succeed in their careers and change the world through their creativity. A 10-to-1 student/faculty ratio ensures an abundance of personal interaction with professors, providing hands-on instruction and guidance, nurturing talent, and encouraging students to take creative risks to grow as artists. MCA's rigorous curriculum is integrated with Professional Practices, a unique program of classes and experiences that hone business and entrepreneurial skills. Community Education classes for youth and adults are offered year-round, including a Summer Art Camp accredited by the American Camp Association for children and young artists of all ages. The College additionally offers free gallery exhibitions and artist lectures, which are open to the public throughout the year. Set in Overton Park—a lush 342-acre park in Midtown Memphis containing the Memphis Brooks Museum, Memphis Zoo, and Levitt Shell—MCA is a unique, generative environment where artists thrive. The College celebrated 80 years of operation in 2016 and is poised for many more years of doing artwork. Memphis College of Art is dedicated to teaching the practice, history, and appreciation of visual art and design while challenging all students to reach their highest individual potential. We prepare graduates to succeed in their careers and change the world through their creativity. One of Hollywood's most enduring and endearing movies is "It is a Wonderful Life," where George Bailey, the protagonist in Frank Capraís 1946 film, and the film's audience are given a backward tour of the harsh landscape that would have existed had George never been born. On the flip side, George and the audience are allowed to see the richness of his life, the big and small ways he impacted others' lives, the beauty that exists because he was indeed born. A similar theme applies to MCA, which enriches the creative landscape, not only here in Memphis, but also in the other communities where MCA graduates have established professions. MCA students, faculty, and alumni manifest their talents in many ways to make the world a more prosperous and better place. MCA is pleased to cultivate artistic talent and creative expression as an institution. The worldview and civility such an education imparts have never been more critical than it is now. We thank you for your interest in MCA and hope you will decide to become part of the MCA artists' thriving community who make a difference in this country and worldwide. At the core of the College are its rigorous academic programs. Whether studying at the undergraduate or graduate level, each student is guided through the intellectual and technical aspects of art-making and discourse. To provide the best experience for learning, small classes (typical studio class size is 12–15) are prepared and offered by a faculty of artists and scholars, all dedicated to each student's personal growth and development. Guide professional development and application experiences for students that promote independent learning and create career connections to increase meaningful employment and post-graduate opportunities. Students are unique individuals who have various experiences, skills, and attributes to offer in their professional or personal endeavors. The Career Development staff works with students throughout their four years to focus on career opportunities and skill development significant to each student's needs and goals. Career Development has assembled the most critical resources for students to explore the many options available to artists easily and research those careers. Career Development offers frequent workshops on the essential things you need to know to get your career plans jump-started. Most are just an hour long and held during lunch to fit perfectly into your active academic schedule. Students learn and make their best decisions when they have relevant experiences and information that lets them see professionals up close and personal. Find out how to enhance your academic endeavors with essential experiences outside the classroom, like internships. MCA is a place where creative challenges are met with curiosity and the capacity to solve design or aesthetic problems and innovate, collaborate, and support students along their paths to becoming professionals in art and design. Connect with our students and see how "We Make Art Work." MCACC is the students' job! Register with MCA Career Connections to submit applications for part-time, full-time, and freelance opportunities and register for the annual Career Fair. All of our artists' lectures and exhibitions are free and open to the public. Many of the children attending our Saturday School and Summer Art Camp are awarded merit-based tuition scholarships. Individual staff and faculty members contribute their time and artwork to worthy community endeavors such as the annual public television art and antique auction. In a vital partnership with ArtsMemphis, MCA helps facilitate the Arts in the Schools program where practicing artists hold free workshops for students in the local public schools. The College offers a year-long Advanced Placement class for exceptionally gifted high school artists at no cost. View full university

It does not take long to see what people love about the University of Memphis. This is a university filled with joy. You can hear it in the roar of Tiger fans at every game. You notice it in the warm smiles you pass on campus. You can feel it when our students get recognized nationally for their successes. And you see it when another UofM discovery happens in our research labs. Located in a quiet residential neighborhood of Memphis, Tennessee, the UofM is a major research institution. What you learn here builds a sense of intellectual engagement that will empower you to make a difference in life and throughout your career. Founded in 1912, we welcome more than 21,000 students to campus every year. Diversity is one of our strengths. Students and faculty come from all over the world to be a part of the UofM experience. The campus boasts 25 Chairs of Excellence and five state-approved Centers of Excellence. Our researchers and faculty are leaders in over 250 fields of study. That means you have access to a wealth of academic choices and challenges. So get ready to dive in because our idea of education is an up-close and immersive approach. We are a campus that produces groundbreaking research for the benefit of humanity. We are one of only two research-intensive public universities in Tennessee. Our undergraduates get unprecedented research opportunities in graduate-level labs. Our nationally recognized arts programs currently employ and produce some of the world's most prolific musicians, artists, actors, and writers. UofM is where your curiosity develops, and your ideas begin. This is where you learn the true meaning of community and teamwork. Whatever your passion, you will discover endless paths toward it at UofM. Students come here from all over the world to receive bachelor's, master's, professional and doctoral degrees. They come here to do, to create, to learn, to grow. To improve the world. That is what Memphis does. Our beautiful campus is home to the FedEx Institute of Technology, where world-renowned researchers solve complex problems affecting society, and the Kemmons Wilson School of Hospitality and Resort Management, created by the late founder of Holiday Inn. Pre-professional training is available for students planning to enter dentistry, medicine, optometry, pharmacy, physical therapy, or veterinary medicine. The University proudly offers Air Force, Army, and Navy ROTC programs. Making our students' lives easier is important, so we offer convenient high caliber degree programs entirely online through UofM Global. We take the classroom to you. Our programs are developed by UofM faculty for UofM students. You even have an advisor ready to help you every step of the way, just like you would on campus. Your diplomas and transcripts are identical to those earned by UofM campus students. What do you want to be when you grow up? With over 250 areas of study, you will be sure to discover your career path at the UofM. The 2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog lists college and degree options and provides specific degree requirements. Are you interested in starting a new profession or enhancing the knowledge and experience you already possess? As a major urban research university, the UofM enrolls roughly 4,000 graduate students in more than 120-degree programs, many of which are ranked among the best in the nation. The Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law offers students two optional dual-degree programs, one joint-degree program, and a part-time program. As the only law school in Memphis (located in downtown along the Mighty Mississippi River) and one of the largest in Tennessee, Memphis Law gives students unparalleled opportunities for success. Top academic performers with big ambitions find a rich, diverse experience through our Helen Hardin Honors Program, the most extensive honors program in Tennessee. We combine the best of a small liberal arts school with the wide-ranging opportunities of a large, nationally recognized research university. While all of the 1,300 honors students excel academically, they also are part of a dynamic and diverse student body of more than 20,000 students. The program has produced the Goldwater Scholars, Truman Scholars, and Fulbright Scholars. Many departments within specific academic programs offer their own honors programs, so there are many ways for students to graduate with honors. In a city that has changed the world in more ways than one, we are driven to do the same. And starting here, so can you. The University of Memphis has been educating students from all over the world for over 100 years. UofM researchers and faculty are leaders in over 250 fields of study, which means a wealth of academic choices for you. In the heart of the nation's 20th largest city, learning is not limited to classrooms or labs. Memphis is a hub of international commerce, culture, and creativity. Whatever your passion, here, you will discover the endless paths toward pursuing it. The Office of Undergraduate Admissions and Orientation is dedicated to helping you begin your journey. View full university

Welcome to Memphis University School. We are a college-preparatory school for boys in Grades 7-12, and we are guided by the principles of truth and honor that have informed our work since 1893. What we teach is shaped by what colleges expect of students they admit, by what we believe we should pass on from generation to generation, and by our mission to build ethical character. Boys here benefit from a superior academic curriculum, small classes with individual attention, freedom within the constraints of our Honor Code, and peer encouragement to do their best. MUS is a traditional school, and our concerns for academic literacy and strong character rest on time-tested traditional values – perseverance, courage, civility, honesty, industry, self-restraint, responsibility, and generosity. We encourage our boys to aspire to leadership through numerous opportunities in athletics, the arts, service, and other extracurricular activities. Students quickly develop a sense of belonging within this community while discovering unique ways to exercise their gifts. An outstanding group of passionate, expert teachers does their work here. They know how to educate boys, motivate boys, and design incremental challenges that help boys discover and develop their abilities. Our small class sizes enable our instructors to know their students. This familiarity puts the boys at ease, asking questions, and seeking advice. Combine excellent teachers with inquisitive minds, and extraordinary possibilities abound. Memphis University School is a college-preparatory school dedicated to academic excellence, cultivation of service and leadership, and the development of well-rounded young men of strong moral character, consistent with the school's Christian tradition. Memphis University School is committed to high honor and integrity standards, academic performance, service, leadership, and athletics, and the transmission of Judeo-Christian values. A MUS education is characterized by a rigorous curriculum, a lively exchange of ideas, supportive teaching, and adherence to an honor code. Its objective is to instruct students in the skills and subject matter of the humanities and sciences, engender successful habits and techniques of learning, and instill the foremost principles of personal responsibility, morality, and gentlemanly conduct. A dynamic extracurricular program devoted to excellence promotes leadership and service and encourages physical fitness and a wide variety of talents and interests. Non-denominational and non-sectarian, MUS seeks to foster a respectful appreciation of people's spiritual nature and honors the sincere expression of widely differing faiths. MUS aspires to be a community of mutual respect and concern regardless of individual differences. Academic excellence in preparation for college has been essential to our mission since our founders opened the doors of Memphis University School. We offer a wide variety of courses focused on the liberal arts – English, mathematics, classical and modern languages, history, sciences, and fine and performing arts. An experienced, dedicated, and caring faculty guides our boys on their way as they discover how to learn and discern, how to think, and how to reason. Our teachers encourage all manner of intellectual pursuits as they share their particular passions, be they detective fiction, robotics engineering, Portuguese culture, statistical analysis, Augustan poetry, the Maker Movement, or the math of music. Our students are fully engaged in their educational journey. Their academic success is evident in Advanced Placement scores, participation in academic honor societies, success in interscholastic competitions, and college acceptances and scholarships. However, the ultimate measure of their – and our – success is developing a lifelong love of learning. View full school