Undergraduate Enrollment

795

Points of Distinction

• Part of the international education system of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, a Protestant denomination; accepts students of all faiths
• Small class size
• Friendly social environment

Southwestern Adventist University is a small Christian campus located between Cleburne and Burleson in the city of Keene. Southwestern offers many career options including nursing, chemistry, geology, psychology, and communication among its 34 undergraduate majors and 20 preprofessional programs. The university is credited with providing its approximately 800 undergraduates with close interaction with professors; the average class size is 15.

Students in any major receive hands-on training. The campus maintains its own radio station for communication majors, as well as a state-of-the-art production studio for radio-TV-film majors. Nursing students also enjoy advanced technology in the classroom with mannequins that have the ability to go into cardiac arrest, give birth, or show signs of illness that must be diagnosed. Students in the geology department benefit from digging up dinosaur bones in Wyoming on the school’s own excavation site. Southwestern’s Drake Geology Lab gives budding geologists a chance to clean and examine bones before they are photographed and uploaded to an Internet database.

Southwestern Adventist is removed from the busy city and is close to a number of recreational areas and state parks. Shopping, dining, and entertainment options are still only a few minutes away.