page_title: Bob Jones University
section_title: School of Religion
hierarchical_section_title: Bob Jones University / Academics / Religious education / School of Religion
caption_attribution_description: Bob Jones University Seminary Building, Greenville, SC, USA
context_page_description: Bob Jones University is a private, non-denominational evangelical university in Greenville, South Carolina, United States, known for its conservative cultural and religious positions. The college, with approximately 2,500 students, is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges and the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools. The university's athletic teams, the Bruins, compete in Division II of the National Christian College Athletic Association and provisionally in Division III of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. In 2008, the university estimated the number of its graduates at 35,000; in 2017, 40,184.
context_section_description: The School of Religion includes majors for both men and women, although only men train as ministerial students. Many of these students go on to a seminary after completing their undergraduate education. Others take ministry positions straight from college, and rising juniors participate in a church internship program to prepare them for the pastoral ministry. In 1995 there were 1,290 BJU graduates serving as senior or associate pastors in churches across the United States. In 2017 more than 100 pastors in the Upstate alone were BJU graduates.
caption: The seminary building at Bob Jones University
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