Education of Memphis, Tennessee
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Memphis, Tennessee is served by Memphis City Schools while surrounding suburbs in other areas of Shelby County are served by Shelby County Schools.
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[edit] Colleges and Universities
Colleges and universities located in the city include the University of Memphis (formerly Memphis State University), Rhodes College (formerly Southwestern at Memphis), Le Moyne-Owen College, Crichton College, Christian Brothers University, and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (Colleges of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Graduate Health Sciences and Allied Health Sciences).
Some smaller specialty colleges are also located in Memphis, including Harding University Graduate School of Religion, Memphis Theological Seminary, Memphis College of Art, and Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary. The major community college is Southwest Tennessee Community College.
[edit] St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Memphis is also home to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, a world class medical research facility.
1996 Nobel Laureate Peter Doherty conducts research at this facility. There are also several other major medical teaching institutions in the city, including the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (Colleges of Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy and Allied Health Sciences), the Southern College of Optometry and the Baptist Memorial College of Health Sciences.
[edit] History
The Memphis Training School for Nurses, progenitor of the School of Nursing, was chartered September 28, 1887.[1]
The University of Tennessee College of Dentistry was founded in 1878 making it the oldest dental college in the South, and the third oldest public college of dentistry in the United States.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ University of Tennessee-Memphis Website - School of Nursing History
- ^ University of Tennessee-Memphis Dentistry Website
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