Southern Adventist University

4881 Taylor Cir, Collegedale, TN 37315-37 -  View Map

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• In response to this mission, Southern Adventist University envisions itself as a leader in academic and professional excellence, responsive to the needs of its constituencies as it provides affordable education and a balanced lifestyle for students from diverse backgrounds. The institution will be recognized for its integration of faith and learning, scholarship and service, and leadership and servanthood.
• Southern Adventist University aims to create a safe, nurturing community of faith in which students may grow in a vibrant relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, while integrating in their lives Christian beliefs and values as understood by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. To assist students in attaining knowledge-based competencies essential for productive citizenship, leadership, and service in an increasingly complex global society
• Southern Adventist University offers the baccalaureate degree in 50 majors, the associate degree in 20 majors, and a one-year certificate program. At the graduate level, Southern offers ten masters degrees.
• In 1892 Professor and Mrs. George Colcord rented a room over the General Store in the Graysville, TN and established Graysville Academy. Academic expansion came with increased enrollment and changing student needs, and the school was renamed Southern Industrial School (1897), Southern Training School (1901), Southern Junior College (1916), Southern Missionary College (1944), Southern College of Seventh-Day Adventists (1982), and Southern Adventist University (1996) to reflect this expansion.
• Southern Adventist University is located in Collegedale, Tennessee. We are a few miles from Interstate 75, just seven miles from Chattanooga, and within two hours of Knoxville, Nashville, and Atlanta.
• Southern Adventist University is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097, telephone number 404-679-4501) to award one-year certificates, associate degrees, baccalaureate degrees and masters degrees. It is also accredited by the Accrediting Association of Seventh-day Adventist Schools, Colleges, and Universities.
• Profile last updated: 00/00/0000.

In the News:

• Kennedy: 2009 Southern Adventist University missionary murder topic of new book (Chattanooga Times Free Press)
  posted on June 12, 2011 at 04:09:17 am
  In the fall of 2009, a 20-year-old Southern Adventist University student was murdered while on a student mission in Yap, a tiny island state in Micronesia.
• FEMA Open Disaster Recovery Center At Collegedale May Open Additional Center In Lookout Valley (The Chattanoogan)
  posted on May 7, 2011 at 09:47:49 pm
  FEMA has opened a disaster response center at Southern Adventist University, 4870 University Dr., at the Hulsey Recreation Center in Collegedale. Hours of operation will be 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. seven days a week.
• FEMA disaster center opens in Apison (Chattanooga Times Free Press)
  posted on May 6, 2011 at 03:54:58 pm
  A FEMA center for Hamilton County tornado victims has opened at Southern Adventist University in Collegedale, according to a news release.
• FEMA/SBA Disaster Assistance Centers Open in Hamilton, Bradley (WDEF Chattanooga)
  posted on May 5, 2011 at 10:12:39 pm
  Two more FEMA disaster assistance centers are now open in the tri-state area. One is in operation in Cleveland, and the other will be in full operation Friday morning in Collegedale. This is the assistance center at Inman and Church streets in Cleveland, where victims of the destructive tornados can begin the process of getting financial aid. The other center is at Southern Adventist University ...
• Business Calendar (Chattanooga Times Free Press)
  posted on March 19, 2011 at 04:19:49 am
  The E. A. Anderson Lecture Series by the School of Business and Management at Southern Adventist University will present a lecture by Kenneth Scott, medical director of Life Care Centers of America at 8 p.m. Monday in the Hulsey Wellness Center, room 3135. More information about the free event is available at 236-2753.

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