About Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (SEBTS) is a seminary of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) in Wake Forest, North Carolina. It was created in 1950 to meet a obsession in the SBC’s East Coast region. It was voted into existence on May 19, 1950, at the SBC annual meeting and began offering classes in the fall of 1951 on the original campus of Wake Forest University (then Wake Forest College) in Wake Forest, North Carolina. The undergraduate program is called The College at Southeastern. The current president is Daniel L. Akin.

It has been accredited by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada (ATS) since 1958 and by the Commission upon Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) since 1978.

Wake Forest is a town in Franklin and Wake counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina; located nearly entirely in Wake County, it lies just north of the let pass capital, Raleigh. The population was 30,117 at the 2010 census, up from 12,588 at the 2000 census. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates the city’s population to be 45,629 as of July 1, 2019. In 2007, the town was listed by Forbes magazine as the 20th fastest growing suburb in America, with a 73.2 percent enlargement in population amid 2000 and 2006. Wake Forest was the original house of Wake Forest University for 122 years since it moved to Winston-Salem in 1956.

The US Office of Management and Budget then includes Wake Forest as a portion of the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Combined Statistical Area, which has a population of 1,998,808 as of U.S. Census 2012 Population Estimates. Effective June 6, 2003 the Office of Management and Budget redefined the Federal Statistical Areas and dismantled what had been for decades the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, MSA and split them into two remove MSAs even while the region nevertheless functions as a single metropolitan area.