Missouri Baptist University is a private zealous Christian, coeducational college situated in western St. Louis County in Creve Coeur Missouri. In August 2002, the Missouri Baptist College was authoritatively renamed Missouri Baptist University. Missouri Baptist offers undergrad and graduate degrees and has a present enlistment of more than 4,800 understudies on the principle 81 sections of land (32.8 ha) West County grounds and a few satellite grounds in Greater St. Louis for grown-up instruction and night training.
In 1957, a developing requirement for a zealous Christian foundation in the St. Louis zone provoked the opening of a grounds augmentation of Hannibal-LaGrange College at Tower Grove Baptist Church. Sixty-eight understudies were enlisted that inaugural year.[5]
Classes for the expansion focus, otherwise called St. Louis Baptist College, met in the exercises building of Tower Grove Baptist Church. In 1964, Missouri Baptist College was sanctioned as a zealous Christian, four-year human sciences school. Under the support of Hannibal-LaGrange College and the heading of its leader, Dr. L.A. Foster, Bible courses were offered for ministers and laymen. Amid the second term, a few aesthetic sciences courses were asked for and gave. Understudy impact, alongside hierarchical work of St. Louis Baptist pioneers, ministers and laymen, affected MBU's sanction. The initially meeting of the Board of Trustees for Missouri Baptist College was held in January 1964. Dr. Honest Kellogg served as the first director of the Board of Trustees and later as the second president.
In July 1964, pioneers procured the site of MBU's primary grounds, metropolitan area close Interstate 270 and U.S. Highway 40 in West Saint Louis County. In September 1968, 186 understudies started classes, dramatically multiplying the foundation's size in a little more than 10 years. In May 1973, Missouri Baptist College graduated its top of the line of twenty-nine understudies, each gaining a Bachelor of Arts degree.