Ozark Christian College

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Ozark Christian College is a private, not-for-profit college located at 1111 North Main Street, Joplin, Missouri. Its was originally founded in Bentonville, Arkansas by Seth Wilson. Affiliated with the Restoration Movement. The campus has 16 buildings including 3 female dorms, 3 male dorms, cafeteria, Multi-purpose building, Mabee student center, Seth Wilson Library, the chapel building, missions building, Casteel administration building, Christian service building, physical power plant, and the Ozark book store. The college owns about 95 acres of land around the campus.

Its stated purpose is to to "train men and women for Christian service" through an undergraduate Bible college education. Coursework focuses almost exclusively on the Bible, Christian History, ministry and related topics. Music ministry and deaf ministry are also taught. Sports teams are known as the Ambassadors and include men's basketball, men's baseball, men's soccer, women's basketball, women's soccer and women's volleyball.

Ozark has increased in enrollment by 87 percent in the past 20 years. the largest enrollment was 2006 with 743 students. Approximately 33 percent of enrollment is from Missouri, 11 percent is from Kansas, 10 percent from Oklahoma, 5 percent from Iowa, 4 percent from Texas, and 34 percent from the other states. About three percent of the students are international. Seventy two percent of the students receive financial aid. In 2007 Ozark had 150 graduate. There are over 10,000 alumni over the world serving 48 states and 40 other countries around the world. "The Sun never sets on our alumni."

OCC received accreditation by the Association for Biblical Higher Education (ABHE) in 1985 which accredidates over 100 more christian colleges and universities across the United States.