Why should you care about whether your studies are accredited? To be candid, accreditation does not always guarantee the quality or value of what you are studying. Some accredited institutions are of poor quality and some unaccredited educational institutions are of high quality. So accreditation is not the first and most important question to ask yourself about a course of study you are contemplating. On the other hand, in most cases, accreditation does matter for a number of very good reasons. Here are just a few:

Bible colleges are institutions of postsecondary education that feature extensive study of the Bible accompanied by curricular and co-curricular emphasis upon personal devotion and consecrated service. The Bible college movement originated during the time of North America’s Third Great Awakening. Early Bible institutes emerged as both products of and catalysts for revival and missionary movements. The first such institutions include Nyack Missionary Training Institute, founded by A.B. Simpson in 1882, and Moody Bible Institute, founded by D.L. Moody in 1886. These earliest Bible institutes typify the character and origin of scores of other such institutions that proliferated across the North American continent during the latter two decades of the 19thcentury and the first three decades of the 20th century.