The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) is an educational accreditor recognized by the United States Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation.This agency accredits over 13,000 public and private educational institutions ranging from preschool to college level in the Southern United States.Its headquarters are in North …

Texas Southern University (Texas Southern or TSU) is a public historically black university in Houston, Texas.The university is one of the largest and most comprehensive historically black college or universities in the USA with nearly 10,000 students enrolled and over 100 academic programs. The university is a member school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund and it is …

The Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) was an organization providing accreditation of public and private universities, colleges, secondary and elementary schools in California and Hawaii, the territories of Guam, American Samoa and Northern Marianas Islands, in addition to the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, the Pacific Rim, …

Southern Baptist Convention: 2187: 50 Southern Baptist Theological Seminary: Louisville, Kentucky: R. Albert Mohler Jr. (President) 1938: Southern Baptist Convention: 3157: 59 Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary: Fort Worth, Texas: Jeffrey Bingham (Interim President) 1940: Southern Baptist Convention: 2767: 95 SS. Cyril & Methodius ...

The University of Houston System has four separate and distinct institutions; each is a stand-alone university and confers its own degrees. Its flagship institution is the University of Houston.The three others are stand-alone universities; they are not branch campuses of the University of Houston.. Admission into each institution is separate, and each institution has …

The University of Southern Indiana (USI) is a public university just outside of Evansville, Indiana.Founded in 1965, USI enrolls 9,750 dual credit, undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students in more than 130 areas of study. USI offers programs through the College of Liberal Arts, Romain College of Business, College of Nursing and Health Professions and the Pott College …

Southern Polytechnic State University (also called Southern Poly; abbreviated SPSU) was a public, co-educational, state university in Marietta, Georgia, United States approximately 20 miles (32 km) northwest of downtown Atlanta.Until 2015, it was an independent part of the University System of Georgia and called itself "Georgia's Technology University."

The university has full accreditation from the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. The university does not utilize graduate students to teach classes as all are taught by members of the Armstrong faculty. Armstrong has nearly 300 faculty members and a student-to-faculty ratio of 19:1.

The Southern United States (sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, or simply the South) is a geographic and cultural region of the United States of America. It is between the Atlantic Ocean and the Western United States, with the Midwestern and Northeastern United States to its north and the Gulf of Mexico and Mexico …

An Act of the Twenty-sixth General Assembly of Illinois, approved March 9, 1869, created Southern Illinois Normal College, the second state-supported normal school in Illinois. Carbondale held the ceremony of cornerstone laying, May 17, 1870. The first historic session of Southern Illinois Normal University was a summer institute, with a first faculty of eight …