Bethel University is a private Christian university affiliated with Converge, with its main campus in Arden Hills, Minnesota, on about 290 acres near Lake Valentine and a St. Paul mailing address. It was founded in 1871 in Chicago as a seminary for Swedish Baptists by pastor John Alexis Edgren, originally the Baptist Union Theological Seminary. The Baptist General Conference became its main partner in 1914, the school moved to Saint Paul after 1914, relocated to Arden Hills in 1972 and was renamed Bethel University in 2004. The first woman, Elizabeth Johnson, enrolled in 1879. Its Royals compete in NCAA Division III, and Benson Great Hall seats 1,700 with a 4,000-pipe organ. The undergraduate catalog lists a 3.0 unweighted GPA for first-year students and treats test scores as optional.
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Bethel's catalog lists a 3.0 unweighted GPA for first-year students, with test scores optional. Applicants below 3.0 may be admitted provisionally through the Spark program.
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Location
3900 Bethel Dr, St Paul, MN 55112, United States, Minnesota
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