Alderson Broaddus University Revenue and Competitors

For 140 years, Alderson-Broaddus College has been providing a quality education for its students. Overlooking the picturesque Tygart River Valley in Philippi, West Virginia, Alderson-Broaddus College students learn and grow in a faith-based learning community. Deeply rooted in the liberal arts, Alderson-Broaddus College is a health-related and professional educational institution. Alderson-Broaddus College is affiliated with the American Baptist Churches, USA, the West Virginia Baptist Convention, and the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities. Two institutions were united in 1932 to form Alderson-Broaddus College. Each of the institutions passed on a rich Christian heritage. The older of the two, Broaddus College, was founded in Winchester, Virginia in 1871 by Edward Jefferson Willis, a Baptist minister who named the new college after Rev. William Francis Ferguson Broaddus, a prominent Baptist minister at the time of the Civil War. In response to economic hard times, Broaddus College was moved across the Alleghenies to Clarksburg, West Virginia, in 1876. The college was moved again to the small town of Philippi, West Virginia in 1901. The other institution, Alderson Academy and Junior College, was founded in Alderson, West Virginia in 1901 by Emma Alderson, a committed Baptist laywoman. As the years passed, Broaddus became a junior college, then a senior college, and Alderson Academy added junior college status. Financial hardship in the late 1920's led to the decision to merge the two colleges, both of which shared a common identity as Baptist and liberal arts institutions. Alderson-Broaddus College derives its hyphenated name from the joining of these two institutions. Since its founding Alderson-Broaddus has been committed to a strong liberal arts education. As such, the College seeks to imbue students with an appreciation of literature and the arts, Christian faith, music and the sciences. In more recent times the College has focused on developing programs in the natural and applied sciences as well. In 1945, Alderson-Broaddus developed the first four-year nursing and the first radiologic technology programs in West Virginia. In 1968, the College pioneered the nation's first four-year physician assistant program, an innovation that has had enormous influence on the development of the physician assistant profession nationwide. From this program emerged in 1991 the College's first graduate degree offering, the Physician Assistant Master's program. Academic innovation is an enduring feature of A-B. Since 1998, Alderson-Broaddus has added programs in digital art, marketing, family studies, RN-BSN and LPN-BSN degree completion programs for nurses and a surgery track in the College's Master's Physician Assistant program. A-B has also added two on-line certificates in business fundamentals and computer science; and in the spring of 2002 opened the Mollohan Workforce Training Center. Alderson-Broaddus College is a health-related and professional educational institution firmly rooted in the liberal arts. Alderson-Broaddus is affiliated with the American Baptist Churches, USA, and the West Virginia Baptist Convention, and the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities.