Faith Baptist College And Seminary
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Faith Baptist College and Seminary was a private Baptist-oriented college in
Anderson, South Carolina Anderson is a city in and the county seat of Anderson County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 28,106 at the 2020 census, and the city was the center of an urbanized area of 75,702. It is one of the principal cities in the Green ...
, US, in the 1990s. It was closed by early 1998. The college offered degrees in religious studies and in minister training. It also offered a few degrees in graduate studies, such as history. It was considered a non-accredited school, as none of the accrediting organizations reviewed it. Any accreditation came from religious organizations. Faith Baptist College and Semninary was started by Dr. James Bishop in
Morgantown, Kentucky Morgantown is a home rule-class city in, and the seat of Butler County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 2,471 at the time of the 2020 Census History The settlement may have originally been called Funkhouser Hill after Christopher ...
, to provide undergraduate studies by correspondence. Upon his death in 1988, the school was transferred to Anderson, South Carolina under the presidency of Dr. Michael A. Smith. Several campus sites were opened with the main site operating as a campus in
Pickens, South Carolina Pickens, formerly called Pickens Courthouse, is a city in Pickens County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 3,126 at the 2010 census. Pickens changed its classification from a town to a city in 1998, but it was not reported to the ...
, from 1992 to 1995. Satellite campuses also functioned in
Dayton Dayton () is the sixth-largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Montgomery County. A small part of the city extends into Greene County. The 2020 U.S. census estimate put the city population at 137,644, while Greater Da ...
(Ohio), Detroit and Asheboro, North Carolina, for several years. In 1995, the schools were transferred to Louisiana and then to California, where due to low enrollment they were subsequently closed. School records are deposited with the Whitefield Theological Seminary in Florida.


References

Bible colleges in the United States Seminaries and theological colleges in South Carolina Education in Anderson County, South Carolina {{seminary-stub