History

A Seminary, established around 1901, was originally an outgrowth of the theological department of Baylor University in Waco, Texas. A school's purpose was to provide trained ministers of the Gospel for United states's American frontiers. Inside 1905, the department became Baylor Theological Seminary sustaining 5 prof on the teaching staff. A Baptist General Convention of Texas authorized a separation of the seminary from either Baylor University within 1907. At that period, the seminary was renamed Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, & was given a separate board of trustees. A seminary was chartered per State of Texas in March 14, 1908, and functioned on a Waco campus until the summertime of 1910.

Many Texas cities manufactured bids to unsuspecting hosts a newly & growing institution & a seminary in a end accepted the offer mass produced by Fort Worth. Within 1925, control of a seminary passed from either the Texas convention to the Southern Baptist Convention. From either a beginning, a major click of the seminary has been to provide theological how to training for "preachers of the Gospel", majoring on the post-baccalaureate program. Since its introduction, a school has served roughly 62,000 students.

Southwestern Seminary is presently administered by the 40-member board of trustees serving staggered terms of professional. Board members come elected per Southern Baptist Convention. Trustees elect faculty members & administrative officers. Backing is from either a convention's Cooperative Program, endowment earnings, gifts & student fees.

A picture shows B H Carroll Memorial Hall (known as for its initiation president), which is the seminary's independent administrative building.

Student and faculty

When you took a fall 2003 semester, Southwestern enrolled 2,887 students (2,138 of which were good-whale). 2,782 one students identified themselves when Southern Baptists, when 105 identified themselves by using one of about Thirty more evangelical groups and denominations. 2,132 students were male, & 755 were female. Roughly 93% of the student person come postgraduate. A 2003 fall graduating class involved students from either Xxvi states & Xvi foreign countries. It earned Seventeen sheepskin degrees, 198 master's degrees & 52 doctor's degree. Students from either 48 states, Inland northwest D.C. & 47 countries come presently enrolled at Southwestern.

A good-whale faculty includes 88 souls & there are likewise 47 a share-half-time academic.

Academics

Southwestern is divided into threesome schools, theology, educational ministries, & religious music, every sustaining its have faculty & degree software download. A school offers Xviii tracks of survey within areas like corporate chaplainship, Islamic Studies, marriage & personal direction, urban evangelism, and social work.

Trivia

A Carroll Independent School District in northeast Tarrant County is named when B H Carroll's boy, world health organization would help when Tarrant County superintendent of schools.