Growth and Expansion
The school has a current fall 2012 enrollment of 5,622 students. The university offers 68 undergraduate majors, 22 master’s degree programs, over 40 dual master's programs, and two doctoral programs. While in its early years, the school had the reputation of being a commuter college, today's DBU has well over 1,600 students living on campus.
In 1992, the John G. Mahler Student Center, the first new building on the DBU campus in more than 20 years was dedicated. The building is a close replica of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and it was the first of many new buildings in the Georgian architectural style on the campus.
In 2009, the Patty and Bo Pilgrim Chapel was dedicated. The structure is used for various events such as chapel services and concerts, and houses office space for the Gary Cook Graduate School of Leadership along with classrooms and a large multipurpose room. The inspiration for the exterior of the building came from the First Baptist Church in America, located in Providence, Rhode Island.
Other new campus buildings include: Henry Blackaby Hall, the Brownstones Apartment Complex, the Colonial Village Apartment Complex (D. Harold Byrd, Jr. Hall; J. Blair Blackburn Hall, Sheila Cook Hall, Noble and Jane Hurley Hall, Fred and Mary Lou White Hall, and the Ebby Halliday Center), the International Center, the Tom and Alicia Landry Welcome Center, Harold and Mildred Sadler Patriot Baseball Clubhouse, and the Williamsburg Village Townhomes.
In the fall of 2011, the university opened the Joan and Andy Horner Hall. Named after the founders of Premier Designs, Horner Hall houses the DBU communication department, the offices for the College of Fine Arts, a multipurpose classroom and video recording studio, a design lab, and a music business recording studio, designed by the Russ Berger Design Group. The exterior of the structure is modeled after Congress Hall located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
In 2001, DBU-North opened in Carrollton, Texas as DBU's first regional academic center, serving North Dallas and Collin County. For several years, DBU-North located in Frisco, Texas, and this past year, it moved to Plano, Texas.
DBU also opened DBU-Hurst-Colleyville at Hurst in the Summer of 2005, and DBU-Mansfield at Mansfield in Fall 2008.
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