Prior Peer Universities 2006-2018

Peer Universities

Prior peer universities are institutions with which SMU shared characteristics and benchmarks against quality. The lists below were in use from 2006-2018. To view a list of current peer universities, click here.

Prior aspirational universities were institutions with which SMU sought to be comparable in characteristics and quality from 2006–2018.

BOSTON COLLEGE
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY
Waltham, Massachusetts

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

EMORY UNIVERSITY
Atlanta, Georgia

LEHIGH UNIVERSITY
Lehigh, Pennsylvania

TUFTS UNIVERSITY
Medford, Massachusetts

TULANE UNIVERSITY
New Orleans, Louisiana

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME
Notre Dame, Indiana

UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
Rochester, New York

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Los Angeles, California

VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
Nashville, Tennessee

WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
Winston-Salem, North Carolina

These universities were defined as operationally comparative to SMU between 2006–2018.

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
Washington, D.C.

BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
Waco, Texas

BOSTON UNIVERSITY
Boston, Massachusetts

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY
Bronx, New York

GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
Washington, D.C.

MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY
Malibu, California

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
Syracuse, New York

TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
Fort Worth, Texas

UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
Denver, Colorado

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
Coral Gables, Florida

UNIVERSITY OF TULSA
Tulsa, Oklahoma

The Colonial Group (now named G14) was a consortium of 14 universities formed by the provosts of the universities, and supported by the Institutional Research offices through data exchanges and information sharing.