The Bobby B. Lyle School of Engineering at Southern Methodist University (Lyle) has an application deadline of July 1. The application fee is $75 for U.S. residents and $75 for international students. The 2017 Ph.D. student-faculty ratio is 2.1:1. The Bobby B. Lyle School of Engineering at Southern Methodist University (Lyle) has 56 full-time faculty on staff.



The Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University (Cox) offers these departments and concentrations: accounting, arts administration, entrepreneurship, finance, general management, marketing, production/operations management, organizational behavior, real estate, and quantitative analysis/statistics and operations research. Its tuition is full-time: $45,976 per year; part-time: $40,896 per year; and executive: $116,150 total program. At graduation, 64.80 percent of graduates of the full-time program are employed.

Students at Southern Methodist University’s Cox School of Business can take advantage of the school’s location near downtown Dallas to network with companies such as AT&T, Texas Instruments, and Southwest Airlines. With 10 Fortune 500 companies headquartered in Dallas—only New York and Houston are home to more—business students at Cox benefit from their proximity through mentorship programs, speaker series, and internship opportunities.

Beyond location and networking access, the Cox School of Business offers prospective students a variety of degree choices. M.B.A. candidates can choose among a 22 month, full-time M.B.A.; a two year, part-time track offered evenings and weekends in Dallas and Plano, Texas; and an executive M.B.A. program that meets on alternating weekends in Dallas.

Cox also offers master of science degrees in accounting, finance, management, and entrepreneurship, as well as two joint degree options: a J.D./M.B.A. combo with the Dedman School of Law, and a joint M.A./M.B.A. degree in business and arts management with the Meadows School of Arts.

Outside of the classroom, M.B.A. students gain real-world and research experience at one of the schools 13 Centers of Excellence, including the O’Neil Center for Global Markets and Freedom and the JC Penney Center for Retail Excellence. Students can also build their networking and team building skills through a variety of academic and intramural clubs on campus.

Notable alumni from the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University include Thomas Horton, chairman, president, and CEO of AMR Corp. and American Airlines; and Eckhard Pfeiffer, former president and CEO at Compaq Computer Corporation.

Application deadline May 2




The Division of Education and Lifelong Learning at Southern Methodist University has an application deadline of June 1. The application fee for the education program at Southern Methodist University is $35. The Division of Education and Lifelong Learning at Southern Methodist University has 22 full-time faculty on staff with a 4:1 ratio of full-time equivalent doctoral students to full-time faculty.