Belhaven University

Belhaven University is a clandestine Christian advanced arts university amid in Jackson, Mississippi. Founded by Dr. Lewis Fitzhugh and after donated to the Presbyterian Church in the United States, the academy has been apart run by a Board of Trustees back 1972. Belhaven is accepted by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to accolade Associate, Baccalaureate, and Master's degrees. Twenty-seven Bachelor's Degrees and eight Master's Degrees are offered. In accession to acceptable majors, programs of accepted studies are available. There are aswell pre-professional programs in Christian Ministry, Medicine, Dentistry, Law, and Nursing. Belhaven has gone through assorted name changes over the years. Four above name changes accept taken place, although the name "Belhaven" has been accepted to them all. The academy was originally founded as "Belhaven College for Young Ladies" in 1894. After the aboriginal area austere in a blaze in 1910, Belhaven was reopened as "The Belhaven Collegiate and Industrial Institute" in 1911 at its accepted area on Peachtree Street in the celebrated Belhaven Neighborhood in Jackson. In 1915, the Board of Trustees added afflicted the school's name to "Belhaven College". In December, 2009, President Roger Parrott appear that the Board of Trustees had voted absolutely to change the name from "Belhaven College" to the accepted name of "Belhaven University", able on January 1, 2010. Among the affidavit cited for the name change were the accession of several new alum programs of abstraction and a absolute acceptance of added than 3,000 acceptance beyond four locations, including over 500 alum students. Belhaven University offers Bachelor's Degrees in 27 altered above areas of abstraction including Accounting, Art (Visual Arts), Arts Administration, Biblical Studies and Ministries, Biology, Business Administration, Chemistry, Classical Education, Communication, Computer Science, Creative Writing, Dance, Elementary Education, English, Graphic Design, History, Humanities, International Studies, Mathematics, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Social Services, Sports Administration, Sports Medicine and Exercise Science, Sports Ministry and Theater. Pre-professional Programs are aswell offered in Christian Ministry, Medicine, Dentistry, Law, Nursing, and Medical Technology. Master's Degrees are offered in Business Administration, Leadership, Public Administration, Teaching, and Education, a part of others.