Carey commits itself to teaching effective communication skills, stimulating critical thinking, and requiring a high level of scholarship. Carey provides basic professional training in selected areas and nurtures an appreciation of the fine arts. Today Carey operates under the governance of a 24-member board of Trustees elected by the Mississippi Baptist Convention. William Carey promotes the practice of Christian principles, and by cooperating and working with our churches in carrying out the Great Commission, Carey affirms our Baptist heritage and namesake. The College operates on a convenient trimester system.
Classes meet for ten weeks followed by an exam week.
Trimesters begin in mid-August, November, February, and June. Full-time students usually take three or four courses which allows for a greater concentration on each course than under a usual semester system. The 120-acre campus faces a beautiful evergreen forest on the south side of the city. In the spring the campus is a burst of color with flowering dogwoods and azaleas. Summer, winter, and autumn also are announced by the blooming of plants which thrive each in its own season.