John Brown University

John Brown University (JBU) is a private, interdenominational, Christian liberal arts college in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. Founded in 1919, JBU enrols more than 2,500 students from 41 states and 50 countries in its traditional undergraduate, graduate, online and concurrent education programs.

The 200-acre (0.81 km2) main campus in northwest Arkansas has been the site of the university since it was founded in 1919. JBU has 2,1613 students as of the 2017-2018 school year, 1,379 of whom are traditional undergraduates. Of these, 932 live on campus.

In the tradition of some other private Christian universities, John Brown University maintains a conservative set of lifestyle choices. Students sign a community covenant stating they will abstain from profanity, pornography, extramarital sexual activity, harassment, tobacco use, alcohol use, and gambling. Staff and faculty are not required to sign this covenant but must sign a statement of employee expectations.

John Brown University made national news when it changed its long historically held position not to endorse dancing. In December 2006, the school sponsored its own swing-themed dance on campus.

JBU made national news in early 2013 as it has become famous for its yearly TP basketball game. ESPN did a special highlighting "The greatest technical foul in all of the sports."

John Brown University currently offers 41 undergraduate majors, with the most popular being Nursing, Engineering, Family and Human Services, Graphic Design and Biology. As a liberal arts college, JBU requires all students to take a core curriculum of classes, which include several Bible classes, English, a foreign language requirement, science credit, the history of Western civilization, a math requirement, wellness, psychology, government, and philosophy. In the period from 2003 to 2012, JBU rose from 8th to 1st in US News and World Report rankings for the Baccalaureate Colleges in the Southern region.

John Brown University (JBU) teams, nicknamed athletically as the Golden Eagles, are part of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), primarily competing in the Sooner Athletic Conference (SAC). Men's sports include soccer, basketball, cross country, tennis, and cheerleading; while women's sports include basketball, volleyball, cross country, soccer, tennis and cheerleading.