16 Facts About Belmont University

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Belmont University is a private Christian university in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Today the Belmont Mansion is owned by Belmont University but maintained by the Belmont Mansion Association, a non-profit group.

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In November 2005 The Tennessean reported that the TBC would increase its funding of two other institutions, Union University and Carson-Newman College by the amount previously given to Belmont and Belmont would replace the three percent of its budget that was funded by the TBC; this announcement seemed to mark the end of the matter.

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Belmont University offers bachelor's degrees in over 90 academic majors in nine colleges with more than 25 master's and five doctoral programs.

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5.

Belmont University is home to the only AACSB International accredited Music Business program in the world.

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6.

Belmont University was a producer, songwriter and company executive and one of the most successful record men of the sixties and seventies.

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Besides having three professional-quality recording studios on campus, Belmont University owns the Belmont University Studios, part of which is operated for-profit, and part of which is used by students.

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8.

In June 2006, Belmont opened the $18 million Gordon E Inman Center that houses the Gordon E Inman College of Health Sciences and Nursing.

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9.

Belmont University has a large music program, and a variety of musical ensembles exist on the campus.

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10.

Belmont University is home to two Greek-lettered music fraternities, Sigma Alpha Iota and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, as well as a chapter for the national theatre fraternity, Alpha Psi Omega.

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11.

Belmont University operates one student newspaper called The Vision, published monthly.

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12.

Belmont University is a member of the NCAA Division I and is a member of the Missouri Valley Conference in all of Belmont University's sports except men's soccer, which its previous conference, the Ohio Valley, does not sponsor.

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13.

In 2011 Belmont University student-athletes won the Atlantic Sun Conference Academic Trophy for the eighth time in ten years with 76.

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14.

In 2012 Belmont University student-athletes won the Ohio Valley Conference Institutional Academic Achievement Award for the first time after joining the conference last year.

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In 2015, Belmont University received the OVC's Institutional Academic Achievement Award, presented each year to the member institution with the greatest percentage of its eligible student-athletes that earn a 3.

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The debate at Belmont University was a "town-hall" style debate with questions fielded from the audience.

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