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American Baptist College

Nashville, Tennessee · Private · Four-year · Founded 1924

www.abcnash.edu · official site

Founding

American Baptist College opened on September 14, 1924, as the American Baptist Theological Seminary, for the training of Christian workers. It merged with the Missionary Training School for women in 1957.

Source: History, American Baptist College, read 2026-09-14.

As the Department of Education lists it

Campus address
1800 Baptist World Ctr Dr, Nashville, TN 37207-9980
Control
Private not-for-profit
IPEDS unit id
219505
OPE id
01046000
Federal student aid
Participates in Title IV federal student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
On the map
Not placed on the map: the Census Bureau returned no match. Held on 2026-09-14 until a person resolves the address; no other geocoder was consulted.

No enrollment figure is published on this page. The Ledger prints one only with a dated NCES citation, and none is attached to this record.

Sources

  1. U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. IPEDS Institutional Characteristics, Directory information (HD2024), 2024-25 provisional data collection. Unit id 219505. https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/data/HD2024.zip. File dated 2025-09-21.
  2. U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education. Higher Education Programs Eligibility Matrix, sheet 'HBCU', dated 2026-06-08. https://www.ed.gov/media/document/fy-2026-higher-education-programs-eligibility-matrix-june-8-2026-114185.xlsx.
  3. History, American Baptist College. https://abcnash.edu/about/history/. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

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