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  name Bethel College
  motto Other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ (I Cor 3:11)
  established 1887
  type Liberal Arts
  president John K Sheriff
  city North Newton
  state Kansas
  country United States
  undergrad 514
  campus 90 acres
  staff 66
  nickname Threshers
  website http://wwwbethelksedu/


Bethel College is a private college affiliated with Mennonite Church USA . The college is located on the edge of the Flint Hills and vast Wheat fields of south central Kansas in the town of North Newton . Enrollment at the college hovers around 600 students earning 27 different degrees in the Fine Arts and Science s.

Founded in 1887 and confering its first four-year degrees in 1912, Bethel is the oldest Mennonite college in North America. Starting in 1874, thousands of , replacing Wadsworth Institute which had closed in 1878.


BETHEL COLLEGE AT A GLANCE

  • Bethel is the only Kansas college named in the top thirty midwestern Comprehensive Colleges by U.S. ''News & World Report'' (1998-2005)

  • Bethel is a Templeton Character Building College

  • Student-faculty ratio at Bethel College is 10:1. Average class size: 14.

  • 81% of Bethel graduates complete their degrees in four years.

  • 75% of Bethel's traditional age students live on campus.

  • Job placement rate for teacher education graduates in 2004: 88%.

  • Teacher education graduates who passed licensing exam in 2004: 100%.

  • Nursing graduates who had jobs upon graduation in 2005:100%.

  • Social work graduates who passed licensing exam in 2004: 100%; 10-year average: 100%.

  • Bethel has qualified for the Americann Forensics Association's National Individual Events Tournament each year since its beginning in 1978.

  • Biology and natural science graduates who successfully pursued PhD and/or M.D. degrees (over past 15 years): approx. 50%


Bethel is a member of the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference which is part of the NAIA .


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REFERENCES

  • Kaufman, Edmund G. (1973), ''General Conference Mennonite Pioneers'', Bethel College, North Newton, Kansas.

  • Pannabecker, Samuel Floyd (1975), ''Open Doors: A History of the General Conference Mennonite Church'', Faith and Life Press. ISBN 0-87303-636-0



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