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The type of institution, such as "University" or "College," may be dropped, or some component of it abbreviated, such as "Tech" in place of "Institute of Technology" or "Technological University." The same nickname may apply to multiple institutions, especially in different regions.
Abundant Living Bible College, Kentucky; [9] overseen by the unaccredited Transworld Accrediting Commission International [8] Accademia di Belle Arti di Medicino, Italy [10] Académie Européene d'Informatisation (also known as the World Information Distributed University), Belgium and Russia [10] [11] [12]
Phoenix Bible Institute (1935–1946); Western Baptist Bible College (1946–1973); Western Baptist College (1973–2005); Corban College (2005–2010) 2010 Crown College (Minnesota) St. Paul Bible College 1992 Crown College (Tacoma) Crown School of Hair Design 1994 University of the Cumberlands: Cumberland College 2005
The American Bible college movement developed in reaction to the secularization of U.S. higher education. The "Bible institute/college movement" has been described as "a protest to the inroads of secularization in higher education and as a base for the education of lay workers and full-time Bible teachers, evangelists, and pastors". [4]
From 1973 to 1994 the organization was called the American Association of Bible Colleges, but the name Accrediting Association of Bible Colleges was restored in 1994. In 2004 the name of the organization changed to the Association for Biblical Higher Education "in order to reflect its expansion of scope with graduate education accreditation and ...
Bethany University was a four-year private coeducational Christian university located in Scotts Valley, California, in Santa Cruz County.It operated from 1919 until closing in 2011 and was endorsed by the Assemblies of God USA, a Pentecostal denomination, and was the denomination's oldest college at the time of its closure. [1]
Northeastern Christian Junior College (1957–1993) – Bible college affiliated with the Churches of Christ, located in Lower Merion Township (Montgomery County) Medical College of Pennsylvania (1850–1994) – merged with Hahnemann Medical College; now a part of Drexel University College of Medicine; Penn Hall Junior College (1906–1973 ...
Tertiary institutions that do not study theology as their primary focus include: Belhaven University; Bethlehem College & Seminary; Calvin University