Missouri Baptist University

Missouri Baptist University (MBU) is a private evangelical Christian, liberal arts university in Creve Coeur, Missouri. There are currently 12 MBU locations including its regional learning centers throughout the St. Louis region and Illinois in addition to a 68-acre West St. Louis County campus as well as degrees offered completely online for the working adult. In 2018, MBU launched its School of Nursing.

In 1957, a growing need for an evangelical Christian institution in the St. Louis area prompted the opening of a campus extension of Hannibal-LaGrange College at Tower Grove Baptist Church. Sixty-eight students were enrolled that inaugural year.

Classes for the extension center, also known as St. Louis Baptist College, met in the activities building of Tower Grove Baptist Church. In 1964, Missouri Baptist College was chartered as an evangelical Christian, four-year liberal arts college. Under the auspices of Hannibal-LaGrange College and the direction of its president, Dr. L.A. Foster, Bible courses were offered for pastors and laymen. During the second term, several liberal arts courses were requested and provided. Student influence, along with organizational work of St. Louis Baptist leaders, pastors and laymen, influenced MBU's charter. The first meeting of the Board of Trustees for Missouri Baptist College was held in January 1964. Dr. Frank Kellogg served as the first chairman of the Board of Trustees and later as the second president.

As of December 2018, Missouri baptist offers over fifty degree programs through both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Degrees are offered through their schools of business, education and nursing, and through their divisions of fine arts, humanities, natural sciences, health & sports sciences, interdisciplinary studies, counseling (graduate) and social & behavioral sciences. They also offer several master's degrees programs and some doctorates in Education.The University is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission.

Missouri Baptist campus has several residential dorms, a Chapel/Fine Arts center, a recreation complex, a second gymnasium, a library, coffee house, bookstore, academic building and administration building.