Member Colleges

Bethany Global University

Since 1948, Bethany Global University has trained 3,000+ Christian missionaries to take the church to where it is not. Our hands-on approach to education will helps students become effective missionaries wherever God leads them.

We accomplish this in three ways:

Hands-on Training: Undergraduates get hands-on work experience through practical training and local outreach while on campus and then spent 16 months overseas learning while doing missions during their global internship. Graduate students are required to be actively involved in some hands-on work regarding intercultural ministry.
Missions Focus: Fulfilling the great Great Commission by taking the church to where it is not is our chief aim. All faculty, staff, and students who attend here are focused on this one great endeavor.
A University & Agency Collaboration: BGU is part of the larger organization of Bethany International and partners with Bethany Gateways missions agency to bring the most up-to-date training back to the classroom. In collaboration with Bethany Gateways, BA students are commissioned and sent as full-time missionaries overseas while on their global internship.

FAST FACTS

Students in our 4-year programs spend 16 months overseas.

Very few of our students pay for tuition.

Students work on campus about 15 hours per week.

The entire student body goes camping twice a year.

Current Bethany Faculty have a combined over 100 years of missionary experience.

Students are commissioned as missionaries when they are sent on their 16 month Global Internship

Bethany was started by five families dedicating their lives to train and send 100 missionaries.

Students participate in weekly community service and outreach

Bethany alumni have served as missionaries in over 50 countries.

BGU won the Jonathan N Thigpen Enrollment Growth Award for fastest enrollment growth among ABHE colleges for the '16-'17 school year.

3000

alumni have served cross-culturally through internships and/or long-term mission service

1945

The year 5 families sold their belongings to start Bethany

16

months are spent overseas for all of our BA programs

$6,675

The amount of the federal work college award and/or PT scholarship per student

71

years Bethany has been providing biblically based cross-cultural education

<$10,000

annual out of pocket cost of attendance for most students

15

Students work on campus 15 hours per week.

UNIFIED BY PURPOSE

OUR WORK COLLEGE MEMBERS

There are currently 11 federally recognized Work Colleges, nine are members of the Work Colleges Consortium. These institutions are small, private, liberal arts colleges with modest enrollments that range from about 150 to approximately 1,600 students. Each school is unique and operates the work program in a slightly different fashion. However, “work-learning-service” is a central component of each work college. Student work, coupled with robust academics and a spirit of service, is the common denominator shared by all the work colleges.

ABOUT

Member colleges

Work learning service

Resources

Member Colleges

Bethany Global University

FAST FACTS