Southern Methodist University

=== Student demographics ===
{| class="wikitable floatright sortable collapsible"; text-align:right; font-size:80%;"
|+ style="font-size:90%" |Student body composition as of May 2, 2022
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! Race and ethnicity<ref>{{cite web|title=College Scorecard: Southern Methodist University|url=https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?228246-Southern-Methodist-University|publisher=[[United States Department of Education]]|access-date=May 24, 2022|archive-date=May 25, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220525015327/https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?228246-Southern-Methodist-University|url-status=live}}</ref>
! colspan="2" data-sort-type=number |Total
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| [[Non-Hispanic whites|White]]
|align=right| {{bartable|64|%|2||background:gray}}
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| [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic]]
|align=right| {{bartable|13|%|2||background:green}}
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| [[Asian Americans|Asian]]
|align=right| {{bartable|8|%|2||background:purple}}
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| [[Foreign national]]
|align=right| {{bartable|6|%|2||background:orange}}
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| Other{{efn|Other consists of [[Multiracial Americans]] & those who prefer to not say.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|5|%|2||background:brown}}
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| [[African Americans|Black]]
|align=right| {{bartable|5|%|2||background:mediumblue}}
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! colspan="4" data-sort-type=number |[[Economic diversity]]
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| [[American lower class|Low-income]]{{efn|The percentage of students who received an income-based federal [[Pell grant]] intended for low-income students.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|9|%|2||background:red}}
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| [[Affluence in the United States|Affluent]]{{efn|The percentage of students who are a part of the [[American middle class]] at the bare minimum.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|91|%|2||background:black}}
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* As of the Fall 2020 semester, the university's 12,373 students are 6,827 undergraduates and 5,546 postgraduates from all 50 states and 83 countries. The leading 10 states of origin of U.S. residents in descending order of the total undergraduate population are Texas (2,932), California (858), Florida (264), Illinois (194), Georgia (155), New York (155), Connecticut (149), Missouri (131), Tennessee (114), Arizona (98), Colorado (91), Louisiana (91), New Jersey (91), and Arkansas (84).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.smu.edu/Provost/IR/Statistics/FactSheets/Fall2020Facts/origin_undergrad_and_first-year_2020|title=Top 10 States of Origin for Fall 2020|access-date=October 12, 2020|archive-date=December 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201225024737/https://www.smu.edu/Provost/IR/Statistics/FactSheets/Fall2020Facts/origin_undergrad_and_first-year_2020|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Student Enrollment Fall 2020"/>
* As of the Fall 2020 semester, the university's international student population of 1,117 (9%) comes from 83 countries and includes 392 undergraduate and 725 graduate students. The leading 10 countries of origin in descending order for undergraduates are China (204), Mexico (26), Canada (12), Vietnam (10), Korea (9), United Kingdom (8), Brazil (8), Australia (6), India (6), Panama (5), Spain (5), Côte d'Ivoire (4), France (4), Germany (4), Honduras (4), Taiwan (4), United Arab Emirates (4), Venezuela (4), El Salvador (3), Nigeria (3), Peru (3), and Saudi Arabia (3). In descending order for Graduate students, the countries are China (288), India (115), Saudi Arabia (49), Mexico (39), Iran (25), Korea (19), Taiwan (18), Canada (14), Italy (9) and South Africa (8) <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.smu.edu/Provost/IR/Statistics/FactSheets/Fall2020Facts/country_origin_undergrad_and_grad_2020|title=Top 10 Countries of Origin for Fall 2020|access-date=October 12, 2020|archive-date=December 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201225024737/https://www.smu.edu/Provost/IR/Statistics/FactSheets/Fall2020Facts/country_origin_undergrad_and_grad_2020|url-status=live}}</ref>
* As of the Fall 2020 semester, 31.4% of the student body are members of a [[minority group]], while females constitute 49% of the undergraduate and 48% of the graduate student populations, respectively.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.smu.edu/Provost/IR/Statistics/FactSheets/Fall2020Facts/GenderDistributionFall2020|title=Ethnicity Distribution Fall 2020|access-date=October 7, 2020|archive-date=December 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201225024738/https://www.smu.edu/Provost/IR/Statistics/FactSheets/Fall2020Facts/GenderDistributionFall2020|url-status=live}}</ref>
* As of the Fall 2020 semester, SMU's female to male ratio is approximately 1:1 and its student-faculty ratio is 11:1. The average age of undergraduate students is 20, while that of graduate and professional students is 30, and the total average student age is 25.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.smu.edu/Provost/IR/Statistics/FactSheets/Fall2020Facts/GenderDistributionFall2020|title=Ethnicity Distribution Fall 2020|access-date=October 7, 2020|archive-date=December 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201225024736/https://www.smu.edu/Provost/IR/Statistics/FactSheets/Fall2020Facts/GenderDistributionFall2020|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.smu.edu/Provost/IR/Statistics/FactSheets/Fall2020Facts/StudentDistributionFall2020|title=Student Distribution Fall 2020|access-date=October 12, 2020|archive-date=December 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201225024737/https://www.smu.edu/Provost/IR/Statistics/FactSheets/Fall2020Facts/StudentDistributionFall2020|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Among students reporting a religious affiliation, 25% are [[Catholic]], 13% are [[Methodism|Methodist]], 38% are from other [[Protestantism|Protestant]] denominations, and 15% are from other religions including [[Judaism]] and [[Hinduism]].<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite web|url=https://www.smu.edu/AboutSMU/Facts/CampusProfile|title=Campus Profile - SMU|website=Smu.edu|access-date=November 3, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181104160850/https://www.smu.edu/AboutSMU/Facts/CampusProfile|archive-date=November 4, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>