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American Baptist College

American Baptist College
Not stated on Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Nashville, Tennessee · Founded 1924

Private · Four-year · ~50 students

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.

On the official record

Campus address
1800 Baptist World Ctr Dr, Nashville, TN 37207-9980
Control
Private not-for-profit
Students
~50 students
Directory id
219505
OPE id
01046000
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
1800 Baptist World Ctr Dr, Nashville, TN. See it on the Ledger map.
Where this location comes fromCampus location from IPEDS 2024-25This campus location comes from the federal IPEDS 2024-25 record, used as published, so the pin on the map is the campus.IPEDS Institutional Characteristics, Directory information (HD2024), 2024-25 collection, file dated 2025-09-21, retrieved 2026-09-14: coordinate 36.202623, -86.789912 as published. The Census Bureau geocoder returned No Match for the address on file, which no longer decides placement.

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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. Students: 48 total, Fall 2023 (48 undergraduate, 0 graduate). IPEDS Fall Enrollment 2023, derived variables (DRVEF2023). https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/data/DRVEF2023.zip. File dated 2024-09-30, read 2026-09-17.
  5. Photograph: Not stated on Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:American_Baptist_College.jpg. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  6. U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

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