About Southwest Baptist University

Southwest Baptist University (SBU) is a private Baptist university in Bolivar, Missouri. It is affiliated afterward the Missouri Baptist Convention, which is part of the Southern Baptist Convention. In 2019, it had a total enrollment of 3,280 students attending at one of SBU’s four Missouri campuses in Bolivar, Mountain View, Salem, or Springfield.

Bolivar is a city and county seat of Polk County, Missouri, United States. As of the 2019 census, the city population was 11,067.