Northeast Adventist University
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

North East Adventist University is a Seventh-day Adventist institution of higher learning near Jowai, India. The Higher Secondary is affiliated to Meghalaya Board of School Education (MBOSE). It is a part of the Seventh-day Adventist education system, the world's second largest Christian school system. This institution was affiliated to the North Eastern Hill University (
NEHU North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU) is a Central University established on 19 July 1973 by an Act of the Indian Parliament. The university is in the suburb of Shillong, the state capital of Meghalaya, India. The university has two campuses: S ...
) from 1999 till 2019. It was upgraded to University on 29 April 2019 under the Northeast Adventist University Act, 2015.


History

North East Adventist University was established by Pr. O.W Lange in 1941 at the present location. It was then called the Assam Training School. It was inaugurated in 1942 by Sir Robert Reid, the Governor of Assam. When Meghalaya attained statehood in 1972, the name was changed to Adventist Training School (ATS). It served the people of East India and Northeast for many years as a Secondary School until it got upgraded to a Higher Secondary School in 1997, recognized by the Meghalaya Board of School Education (MBOSE).


Campus

The university is located on the pine-wooded hills of Khliehtyrshi at Thadlaskein, from Jowai town, Meghalaya, India. The NH 44 passes just in front of the Main gate.


Degree Courses

The university offers education in the Arts and Humanities, Science, Health, Allied Science and Management & Commerce streams in the University. The campus also boost of Arts, Commerce and Science Streams in the Higher Secondary section. Arts *Department of English *Department of History *Department of Sociology *Department of Political Science *Department of Education *Department of Health and Sciences *Department of Allied Science


See also

* List of Seventh-day Adventist colleges and universities * Seventh-day Adventist education *
Seventh-day Adventist Church The Seventh-day Adventist Church is an Adventist Protestant Christian denomination which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in the Christian (Gregorian) and the Hebrew calendar, as the Sabbath, and ...
* Seventh-day Adventist theology * History of the Seventh-day Adventist Church


References


External links

* {{authority control Adventist universities and colleges in India Universities and colleges affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church Universities and colleges in Meghalaya Colleges affiliated to North-Eastern Hill University 1941 establishments in India Educational institutions established in 1941