NEWSFEED America’s Best. As University of Dallas students shine in their academic pursuits, so too does UD’s prestige among the country’s elite institutions. UD earned marks of excellence once again in the 2020 edition of The Princeton Review’s The Best 385 Colleges, the annual listing of “America’s Top Colleges” by Forbes, Kiplinger’s “Best College Values” and more. “Unlike many schools, even many Catholic schools, UD maintains its rich Core Curriculum, grounded in the beauty and wisdom of the Catholic intellectual tradition, the culmination of which is a semester in Rome on our own campus,” said President Thomas S. Hibbs.
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Classical School Community “beautiful one-of-a-kind partnership” is flourishing in the classical education movement as UD builds a traditional Catholic K-12 curriculum supported by the university’s acclaimed classical model. “This is a time of both great challenge and enormous opportunity for Catholic education at every level,” said President Thomas S. Hibbs, Ph.D., BA ’82 MA ’83, upon the announcement of UD’s new partnership with Bishop Louis Reicher Catholic School in Waco. “All of our institutions need to work more closely. We need to build institutions that are focused on the formation of young persons in the intellectual and moral virtues, in the understanding and practice of the faith, and in the skills they need to participate fruitfully in the world of work and in the communities of Church and state,” said Hibbs. “It is my hope that this collaboration will be grounded in deep and abiding friendship between our institutions and will become a model for other Catholic schools.” UD’s K-8 humanities and Latin curricula will pilot this fall at Bishop Reicher and at three charter schools in the dioceses of Austin, Dallas and Fort Worth.
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1 The partnership provides students open access to research tools and resources, such as summer academic, athletic and fine arts camps, and UD’s nationally ranked study abroad programs; students will also receive preferred admission to the university. 2 Read more about this classical school partnership at udallas.edu/bishop-reicher.
“These U.S. News and other noted rankings are a reflection of our long history of online graduate programs with small class sizes taught by our nationally recognized faculty,” said Gupta College of Business Dean Brett J. L. Landry, Ph.D.
photos: bishop louis-reicher catholic school, anthony mazur, justin schwartz, ben gibbs, courtesy of Kateri Remmes.
Business Prestige. UD’s Gupta College of Business received numerous academic rankings among the country’s elite business programs. Among the listings, U.S. News & World Report recognized UD among the Best Online MBA Programs and Best Online Master’s in Business Programs (excluding MBA), including the country’s No. 1 private Catholic institution with the Best PartTime MBA Programs. Online MBA Report recognized UD among the Top 25 Private Online MBA Programs, including the Top 10 Faith-Based Online MBA Programs. Finally, UD’s Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) was listed among the 2020 Premier Global DBA Programs by CEO Magazine.
