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McMurry University

McMurry University is a private Methodist university in Abilene, Texas. It was founded in 1923 and named after William Fletcher McMurry.[4] The university offers forty-five majors in the fields of fine arts, humanities, social and natural sciences, education, business, and religion, and nine pre-professional programs, including nursing, dentistry, medicine, pharmacy, veterinary, and law.

This article is about the university in Abilene, Texas. For the college in Jacksonville, Illinois, see MacMurray College.

Former names

McMurry College (1923–1990)

Cultivating Leadership Excellence and Virtue...
Every Student, Every Day.

September 20, 1923 (1923-09-20)

$94.5 million (2019)[1]

Sandra Harper[2]

2,556 (Fall 2022)[3]

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United States

Urban, 40 acres (.16 km²)

Maroon and White
   

In the fall of 2023, the university enrolled 2,556 students.[3] Methodist students constitute 27 percent of the student population. Ninety five percent of students are Texan. Minority groups make up approximately one-fourth of the student body. In the freshman class, 98 percent of students receive some financial aid. Fifty-three percent of students live on campus, and 75 percent of students are involved in at least one extracurricular activity. McMurry boasts a student to faculty ratio of 13:1.[5]


91 percent of the faculty have earned a doctorate or other terminal degree in their field. McMurry is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.[6]

educator and former member of the New Mexico Senate

Vernon Asbill

former sociology professor at New York University[17]

Dan W. Dodson

political scientist

V. O. Key, Jr.

U.S. federal judge

Jorge Antonio Solis

former head football coach for Baylor University; executive director for the American Football Coaches Association[18]

Grant Teaff

U.S. attorney in Roe v. Wade[19]

Sarah Weddington

NFL player

Dick Compton

NFL player

Ernie Park

NFL player

Brad Rowland

NFL coach

Karl Scott

writer

William Arthur Ward

actress

Charlene Holt

former pro football player and current head coach.

Jordan Neuman

historian and archeologist

William Curry Holden

experimental physicist and humanitarian

Virgil E. Bottom

Official website

Official athletics website