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Southwestern Christian College

Terrell, Texas · Founded 1948

Private · Four-year · ~130 students

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.

On the official record

Campus address
200 Bowser Circle, Terrell, TX 75160-4812
Control
Private not-for-profit
Students
~130 students
Directory id
228486
OPE id
00361800
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
200 Bowser Circle, Terrell, TX. 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 32.735508, -96.285649 as published. The Census Bureau geocoder also matched this address exactly on 2026-09-14.

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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 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. Students: 128 total, Fall 2023 (128 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. U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

Enrollment is the official 2023 count, rounded. Tap a school for its source.

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