Birmingham-Southern College is a four-year, private liberal arts institution founded in 1856 and affiliated with the United Methodist Church. We are the leading academic institution in Alabama and one of the top liberal arts colleges in the country.

Our mission:

Birmingham-Southern College provides a liberal arts education of distinctive quality. We teach you how to think independently, to examine the arts and sciences aesthetically and critically, and to communicate clearly. We foster the advancement of scholarship, personal and resourceful learning, and comprehensive advising.

What we believe:

Education is unique to each individual. The total experience at BSC focuses on you and your intellectual and ethical development. We offer you opportunities for spiritual and physical well being, and our academic program challenges you to understand a range of disciplines, while requiring the in-depth study of one.

What makes us different:

There is much about our college that is distinct. We have a dedicated faculty who maintain our tradition of undergraduate scholarship and research; we have Interim Term; and we emphasize leadership studies and service-learning, cross-cultural opportunities, on- and off-campus mentor relationships, and graduate education within a liberal arts context.

Our accolades:

Birmingham-Southern recently was selected as a “best” value by the Princeton Review and is included in Loren Pope’s 40 Colleges That Change Lives. The Fiske Guide to Colleges recognized BSC as a Best Buy. Birmingham-Southern is one of only six baccalaureate liberal arts institutions in the country (as classified by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching) to hold both AACSB International—The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business accreditation and the designation of Phi Beta Kappa. What these accolades truly mean though is that students here receive the best education for the money available.

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