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Todd Shelton | 1/18/2005 Southwestern UniversitySouthwestern University is the first institution of higher learning in Texas, chartered by the Republic of Texas in 1840. It is located in historic Georgetown, Texas, just north of Austin. Southwestern is affiliated with The United Methodist Church. It is a selective, four-year, independent, undergraduate national liberal arts college consisting of The Brown College of Arts and Sciences and the Sarofim School of Fine Arts. Southwestern is a member of the Associated Colleges of the South and the Annapolis Group, a consortium of the nation’s leading liberal arts institutions.
The university is identified as the nation’s #7 “best value” undergraduate institution by The Princeton Review (2004), The Princeton Review’s “America’s Best 345 Colleges” (named nation’s 4th “Best Academic Bang for Your Buck” in 2002), U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Colleges” and “Best College Values,” The Fiske Guide to Colleges, Barron’s “Best Buys,” The National Review College Guide “America’s Top 50 Liberal Arts Colleges,” Money magazine, “Colleges That Change Lives,” Career’s & Colleges’ “Cool Schools” listing, and Yahoo Internet Life’s 100 “Most Wired Colleges.”
Southwestern sits on 700 acres, including a 100-acre academic campus and a 75-acre, nine-hole golf course and 525 additional acres. Highlights of the campus include two live-performance theaters; a language learning center; a spacious health and wellness center; a human performance laboratory; an aquatic animal research laboratory; and an observatory. Eighty percent of students live in residential housing on campus, which includes internet, cable and voice mail access.
Southwestern competes in NCAA Division III in basketball, cross country, diving, golf, soccer, swimming and tennis for men and women, baseball for men and volleyball for women. SU is a member of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference. Intramural and club sports, including cycling, disc sports, handball, rock climbing, lacrosse, water polo and women’s fast-pitch softball.
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