Southern Methodist University

SMU is a private research university in Dallas with a liberal arts tradition, offering 109 bachelor's degrees across eight schools and colleges. Its most distinctive feature for a Kazakh applicant is the breadth of ways in. SMU accepts four separate application platforms — its own portal, the Common Application, ApplyTexas and the MyCoalition Application — and admits in autumn, spring and summer. Its scholarship ladder is unusually explicit and unusually deep at the top. The President's Scholars Program is reported to cover full tuition, general student fees and residence hall and meal plan charges, which would make it one of only a handful of genuinely full-cost awards available anywhere. Below it sit named awards at USD 10,000, USD 12,500 and USD 15,000 per semester for up to eight semesters. All the award figures come from secondary sources and require confirmation.