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Southwestern Christian College

Terrell, Texas · Private · Four-year · Founded 1948

www.swcc.edu · official site

Founding

Southwestern Christian College began in the fall of 1948 in Fort Worth, Texas, as the Southern Bible Institute, with about forty-five students and George P. Bowser playing a significant role. In the summer of 1949 its trustees bought the former Texas Military College property in Terrell and began operation there that fall.

Source: Our History, Southwestern Christian College, read 2026-09-14.

As the Department of Education lists it

Campus address
200 Bowser Circle, Terrell, TX 75160-4812
Control
Private not-for-profit
IPEDS unit id
228486
OPE id
00361800
Federal student aid
Participates in Title IV federal student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
On the map
Placed on the Ledger map by an exact match from the U.S. Census Bureau geocoder on 2026-09-14: 200 BOWSER CIR, TERRELL, TX, 75160. See it on the Ledger map.

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 228486. 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. Our History, Southwestern Christian College. https://www.swcc.edu/our-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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