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Southern Arkansas University is a quality, comprehensive regional university that offers degrees in the Colleges of Business, Education, Liberal and Performing Arts, and Science and Technology. It holds accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, National Association of Schools of Music, Council on Social Work Education, the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education, the National League for Nursing, the Commission of Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs and the Joint Review Committee on Athletic Training Education Programs, and the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.

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100 E. University, Magnolia
Arkansas 71753-5000
(870) 235-4000

Southwestern College is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association (HLCNCA). This accreditation is recognized by the US Department of Education and the Council on Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA).

Southwestern College is also accredited by the Association of Biblical Higher Education (ABHE). Institutions of biblical higher education generally require students to complete substantially more course work in biblical and theological studies than their Christian liberal arts counterparts. At Southwestern, students are required to complete 30+ semester hours of Bible or ministry classes. In addition, students are required to profess a faith in Jesus Christ, be involved in ongoing ministry experiences and attend semi-weekly chapel services. All trustees, administrators, faculty and staff also are required to profess faith in Jesus Christ.

As an affiliate institution of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU), Southwestern College supports its mission to advance the cause of Christ-centered higher education and to help it’s institutions transform lives by faithfully relating scholarship and service to biblical truth.

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The University of South Alabama, the only major public institution of higher learning on the upper Gulf Coast, was created by act of the Alabama State Legislature in May, 1963. With Alabama’s two older universities more than 200 miles distant, the University is strategically located in the greater Mobile area, which has a population of more than a million within a 100-mile radius.

Mailing Address:
University of South Alabama
307 University Boulevard
Mobile, Alabama 36688-0002
(251) 460-6101

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The Institution’s history dates back to 1874 when a group of Presbyterians from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, headed by the Reverend Doctor Charles Allen Stillman, presented an overture to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States asking the Church to establish a training school for Black male ministers. Authorized by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States in 1875, Stillman held its first classes in the Fall of 1876 and was chartered as a legal corporation by the State of Alabama in 1895.

In the years that followed, the young school enlarged its academic program. In 1898, the school, now named Stillman Institute in honor of Dr. Stillman who had died in 1895, moved to its present location in the western section of Tuscaloosa. The General Assembly of 1899 approved the opening of the school to all who wished to enter.

At an inter-church Bible conference in Birmingham in 1933, the late Dr. Harry A. Ironside, a respected Bible teacher, challenged a group of Christian business and professional men to establish a Bible school. It was the unanimous conviction of these men that there was a vital need for a school to train Christian workers that was centered on the Bible and also evangelical.

The school was organized and incorporated as the Birmingham School of the Bible. On May 1, 1935, it opened its doors for evening classes. Regular day courses were offered beginning in 1940, and the name was changed to Southeastern Bible School in 1943. A basic three-year program grew to a four-year degree program in 1948. Other academic programs were developed and the charter rights to grant degrees were obtained in 1950. The name of the school was changed to Southeastern Bible College in 1952.

The College attained national accreditation with the Association for Biblical Higher Education (ABHE) in 1962. The campus moved from a two story frame house to its Pawnee Avenue Southside location in 1947. In 1988, the College moved to a 10-acre site in Mountain Brook on Highway 280. In March 2001, Dr. Don Hawkins was appointed President. In 2004, with God’s providential blessing, Southeastern Bible College relocated to its current 22-acre campus facilities at 2545 Valleydale Road in North Shelby County.

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