Northeastern Bible College was founded by Charles W. Anderson and first opened in September 1950 as Northeastern Bible Institute, at the Brookdale Baptist Church in Bloomfield,

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. The college relocated to a campus in Essex Fells in the fall of 1952. The name was changed in 1964 to Northeastern Collegiate Bible Institute, and finally in 1973 to Northeastern Bible College. Northeastern won the 1st official NCCAA D-I Soccer Championship in the Fall 1973 and in the spring of 1974, was granted full accreditation by the

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. The school closed in 1990 because of financial difficulties and low enrollment, but the board of trustees was required by its by-laws to give the institution's assets to a like-minded organization before it could disband. The college library, containing 27,000 volumes of Bible and theology resources, was later acquired by

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in Santa Clarita, California, in 1990. The King's College, which had closed its

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campus in 1994 because of its own financial difficulties, was revived in 1998 and received Northeastern's monetary assets in 1999. This allowed King's to lease two floors in the

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, where it operated until relocating to

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, near

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, in 2012. Northeastern Bible College served over 4,000 students, and 70% of its alumni are engaged in full-time Christian service.

School presidents

*Charles W. Anderson, 1950-1980 *J. Gordon Henry, 1980-1984 *Robert Benton, 1984-1987 *James Bjornstad, 1987-1990

Alumni and Transcript Information

Transcripts for Northeastern Bible College (as well as for King's College) are available from the National Student Clearinghouse. To request a transcript, click the following link, and then start typing one of the following: Northeastern Bible College The King’s College The King’s College at Briarcliff Manor and the form will fill in the rest for you. https://tsorder.studentclearinghouse.org/school/select

References

External links

The King's College official websiteAlumni & Transcript Info for The King's College and Northeastern Bible College
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