Dallas – a Top 10 city

If you want all the opportunities of a big city without the attitude, you've come to the right place! Dallas has become a global center of commerce and culture while still maintaining the feel of a medium-sized city. It’s also one of the most accessible cities in the nation with two airports and a light rail system with a station close to campus.

With more restaurants per capita than New York City, you can have sushi one night and authentic Mexican the next. View the largest collection of Art Deco architecture in the world at Fair Park, also home to the largest state fair in the country each Fall. Right on campus you can see the largest collection of Spanish art outside of Spain at the Meadows Museum of Art. With multiple nightlife districts and music venues, you can hear all kinds of bands – local and national – or try your hand at swing dancing, salsa, or a little techno. Not to mention Shakespeare in the Park, art-house flicks, and jazz under the stars. At SMU, you’ll have a glorious, vibrant, worldly city at your disposal.

Dallas…

• ranks third among U.S. cities for Fortune 500 company headquarters.
• is home to nearly 50 museums.
• is a major medical and health services market, home to more than 90 hospitals and more than 11,000 physicians practicing more than 80 specialties.
• has about 400 city parks, a public art collection of more than 300 pieces and the largest urban cultural district in the nation.
• ranks fifth in the nation’s top media markets.