About Gardner-Webb University

Gardner–Webb University (Gardner–Webb, GWU, or GW) is a private, Christian university in Boiling Springs, North Carolina. Founded as Boiling Springs High School in 1905, Gardner-Webb is one of and no-one else three private, Carnegie-classified Doctoral/Professional Universities (along in the same way as Duke University and Wake Forest University) in North Carolina.

Approximately 4,000 students attend Gardner–Webb, including undergraduates, graduates and online students. A sum of 6 professional schools and 13 academic departments offer higher than 80 undergraduate and graduate major fields of study. GWU’s Runnin’ Bulldogs compete in NCAA Division I as a zealot of the Big South Conference.

Boiling Springs is a town in Cleveland County, North Carolina in the United States and is located in the westernmost ration of the Charlotte metropolitan area located roughly 50 miles away from the city. As of the 2010 census, the town’s population was 4,647. It is home to Gardner–Webb University. The town is named after the natural spring found on the University’s property which feeds a little lake.