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To keep pace with record enrollment and add campus amenities, Samford completed a $300 million phase in campus construction during 2025. This included a 165,000-square-foot student recreation center, two new sorority houses and two freshman residence halls, one of which was named in the memory of Audrey Lattimore Gaston Howard, the first African-American full-time student at Samford.
== Student demographics ==
In 2025, almost 61 percent of students came from outside the state of Alabama. In 2025, Samford welcomed 132 undergraduate transfer students. The previous year it received 245 students, including 151 from Birmingham-Southern College, which closed in May 2024.
In 2025, Samford University enrolled 4,370 undergraduate and 1,954 graduate and professional students. Students from 44 U.S. states and 16 other countries attend Samford, with 75 percent of undergraduate first-year students coming from outside the state of Alabama. 97 percent of all May 2019 undergraduate alumni were employed or enrolled …
