Our Vision is to honor the Lord by preparing ministers, missionaries, Christian educators and Christian lay people to effectively reach and impact the world for the cause of Christ.

LBU is a university that trains for success using curriculum designed by outstanding Christian educators and built around textbooks written by many of the nation's leading authors. LBU has crafted an educational program that compares favorably with some of the nation's leading distance education universities. LBU is today’s education for today’s professional.

Education at LBU is geared for today’s fast pace professional. Courses can be completed in the comfort of your home, office, and hotel room or at 30,000-ft. as you fly to your business destination.

LBU takes into account past professional experience and present occupational learning opportunities as we provide the academic courses for a unique educational experience.

Louisiana Baptist University was founded with the express purpose of providing a quality education in a Christian atmosphere. The University's mission is to provide rigorous, high quality academic study for experienced professionals.

As a pioneer in distance education, LBU has been privileged to train many of the nation's outstanding ministers, educators, counselors and Christian businessmen. It continues to expand its academic programs in order to train tomorrow’s leaders.

Academic Review

Louisiana Baptist University was founded with the express purpose of providing a quality education in a Christian atmosphere. Our main emphasis is to train our students to serve in meaningful positions within the Christian community. Louisiana Baptist, on the basis of its academic standards, financial stability and extensive curriculum, is comparable to many accredited universities. However, as a primarily religious institution, LBU has not sought either regional or national accreditation by a secular accrediting agency. Because of our strong stance on inspiration of the scriptures, doctrinal purity and pre-millennialism many of our administration and faculty hold terminal degrees from LBU. However, they also hold over 90 different degrees from other colleges and universities.

LBU is one of six approved schools of the Baptist Bible Fellowship International. The BBFI is a fellowship of over 4,000 churches. As an approved school LBU is reviewed three times a year by the National Board of Directors of the BBFI.

To better meet the academic and professional development needs of the student, LBU continually seeks to improve the quality of the institution. For this reason, LBU is semi-annually examined by an independent review committee comprised of ministers and educators.

The 2006 academic review:

Dr. Leland R. Kennedy
Chancellor
Baptist Bible College/Graduate School, Springfield, Missouri

I am happy to present my personal, overall assessment of Louisiana Baptist University. This evaluation is based on my acquaintance with the leadership and staff of the university, a visit to the campus, and a review of the curriculum.

The leadership and staff maintain a high level of integrity, competence and dedication to the stated purpose of the university.

My review of the curriculum was positive. From a Bible school perspective; the core curriculum is very adequate to train and equip students for church ministry. I recommended and implemented the use of the curriculum for the International Baptist College of Western Europe located in Belgium.

The distance education program provides excellent education for off-campus students. It is also a great source for advanced training of continuing education for those unable to attend traditional classes.

The university maintains a strategy for the continual development and improvement of its programs. Present efforts include: Expansion of on-campus training; a strong Greek and Hebrew Department; on-campus Spanish classes, and the development of foreign language curricula.

I am happy to join many notable educators who have evaluated Louisiana Baptist University with a positive assessment.

The 2004 academic review:

Dr. Harold Ledford
Director of Development and Continuing Education
Louisiana State University, Shreveport, Louisiana

In reviewing the Christian Education department of Louisiana Baptist University, I find that it meets the national norms in all areas that I reviewed. Many of the education textbooks are the same as the ones used at Louisiana State University and other major universities. The study guides reinforce and supplement the learning experience. Each course requires several research papers and a comprehensive final test. The university also offers several seminars and workshops each year so that students can interact with the faculty and compliment their self-study. The university has a staff of well-qualified advisors that can be reached five days a week by phone, fax or e-mail.

As a pioneer in distance education the university has had time to develop a delivery system that is extremely student friendly and effective. The learning process and degree requirements compare favorably with those of other teacher colleges or state universities.

Dr. John Steffens
Vice Provost
University of Oklahoma

My overall assessment of Louisiana Baptist University is very good. The course offerings clearly meet national norms. The study guides are well designed and are augmented with additional required research papers. The final test is administered under the direction of a proctor in order to insure academic integrity. Students have easy access to qualified instructors through phone, fax or e-mail. It is the intent of the university to offer an academically sound education in a Christian environment, clearly they are succeeding.

Dr. Richard Thompson
Director of Vocation Education
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico

I first reviewed Louisiana Baptist University in May of 1993, when I was Director of the Bureau of Student Services of the Louisiana Department of Education. I was impressed with the quality of their program and with their enthusiasm and dedication to excellence. I indicated at that time that I thought LBU had great possibilities.

In the 10 years since, the university has improved its facilities, increased its course offering, hired additional professionals and quadrupled its student body while maintaining that enthusiasm and dedication to excellence.

In conclusion:

In the past 12 years LBU has been reviewed by numerous committees from regionally accredited universities, ministerial committees and representatives of the State Board of Regents. While each committee may contribute suggestions on how to improve the university we have never received a negative review.

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