Since 2005 BJU has been accredited by the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools, a national accrediting organization recognized by the Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation.

From its inception, BJU has been located in the South " but has never had a predominantly southern constituency.

( Baroque art was created during — and often for — the Counter-Reformation and so, ironically, BJU has been criticized by some other fundamentalists for promoting “ false Catholic doctrine ” through its art gallery.

Although BJU has an unranked and untenured faculty, most University employees consider their positions as much ministries as jobs.

More than a million pre-college students around the world use BJU textbooks, and the Press has approximately 2, 500 titles in print.

Ironically, Peter Ruckman, a BJU graduate, has argued the most extreme version of the KJV-only position, that all translations of the Bible since the KJV have been of satanic origin.

Although the March 2007 issue of Foreign Policy listed BJU as one of " The World's Most Controversial Religious Sites " because of its past influence on American politics, BJU has seen little political controversy since Stephen Jones became president.

* Bob Jones III once declared that BJU had banned interracial dating because " God has separated people for His own purpose "; nevertheless, on March 3, 2000, he announced on Larry King Live that the University would abandon the long-standing rule over which the university had lost its federal tax-exempt status in 1983.

By the early 2000s ( decade ), however, the university quietly reexamined its position on accreditation as degree mills proliferated and various government bureaucracies, such as law enforcement agencies, began excluding BJU graduates on the grounds that the university did not appear on appropriate federal lists.

One of the earliest controversies to center on BJU was the break that occurred in the late 1950s between separatist fundamentalists and neo-evangelicals represented by the newly prominent evangelist Billy Graham.

Fifty years after the opening of the gallery, the BJU collection included more than 400 European paintings from the 14th to through the 19th centuries ( mostly pre-19th century ), period furniture, and a notable collection of Russian icons.

Fifty years after the opening of the gallery, the BJU collection included more than 400 European paintings from the 14th to through the 19th centuries ( mostly pre-19th century ), period furniture, a notable collection of Russian icons, and a hodge-podge of Holy Land antiquities.

Although BJU never reapplied for federal tax-exempt status, and it continues to pay federal taxes, a number of its ancillaries, including Bob Jones Academy and the BJU Museum & Gallery, are tax-exempt entities.

He wrote poetry in traditional forms, including Prologue, a blank-verse drama on the life of John Huss, as well as several hymn texts ( set to music by Dwight Gustafson and Joan Pinkston ) that are known to a wider fundamentalist community beyond the BJU campus.

They had three children, including Bob Jones III, who succeeded him as president of BJU.

The negative publicity caused by the rift with Graham, itself a reflection of a larger division between separatist fundamentalists and neo-evangelicals, precipitated a decline in BJU enrollment of about 10 % in the years 1956-59.

Billy Graham ( evangelist ) | Billy Graham, who attended BJU for one semester, was later at odds with the University

In 1998, Pensacola Christian College produced a widely distributed videotape, arguing that this " leaven of fundamentalism " was passed from the 19th-century Princeton theologian Benjamin B. Warfield ( 1851 – 1921 ) to Charles Brokenshire ( 1885 – 1954 ), who served BJU as Dean of the School of Religion, and then to current BJU faculty members and graduates.

In May 1975, as it prepared to allow unmarried blacks to enroll, BJU adopted more detailed rules prohibiting interracial dating and marriage — threatening expulsion for any student who dated or married interracially, who advocated interracial marriage, who was " affiliated with any group or organization which holds as one of its goals or advocates interracial marriage ," or " who espouse, promote, or encourage others to violate the university's dating rules and regulations.

On January 8, 1982, just before the case was to be heard by the U. S. Supreme Court, President Ronald Reagan authorized his Treasury and Justice Departments to ask that the BJU case be dropped and that the previous court decisions be vacated.

Even the authorized history of BJU notes that both Bob Jones, Sr. and Bob Jones, Jr. “ played political hardball ” when dealing with the three municipalities in which the school was successively located.

Early in his administration BJU was granted full accreditation by the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools.

When, in 2005, he was asked by Newsweek if he wished to play a political role as had his predecessors at BJU, Jones replied, " It would not be my choice.

In 2008 no member of the BJU science faculty held a degree in geology, and the university offered only one introductory course in the subject.

From 1971 to 1975, BJU admitted only married blacks, although the Internal Revenue Service ( IRS ) had already determined in 1970 that " private schools with racially discriminatory admissions policies " were not entitled to federal tax exemption.

In 1995 there were 1, 290 BJU graduates serving as senior or associate pastors in fundamentalist churches across the United States.

Early in the history of the college, there had been some hesitancy on the part of other institutions to accept BJC credits at face value, but by the 1960s, BJU alumni were being accepted by most of the major graduate and professional schools in the United States.

" After South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond switched his allegiance to the Republican Party in 1964, BJU faculty members became increasingly influential in the new state Republican party, and BJU alumni were elected to local political and party offices.

Bob Jones University ( BJU ) is a private, for-profit, non-denominational Protestant university in Greenville, South Carolina.

After the death of Bob Jones, Jr., Erin Jones, the wife of BJU president Stephen Jones became director.

In 2008, the BJU Museum & Gallery opened a satellite location, the " Museum & Gallery at Heritage Green " near downtown Greenville, which features rotating exhibitions from the main museum as well as interactive children's activities.

In the spring, a similar competition sponsored by the American Association of Christian Schools, and hosted by BJU since 1977, brings thousands of national finalists to the university from around the country.

In 2005, 120 of the finalists from previous years returned to BJU as freshmen.

Howell Memorial Science Building The BJU science department, which supports young-earth creationism, offers majors in biology, chemistry, and physics and also offers courses in astronomy.

Although ten of the sixteen members of the science faculty have undergraduate degrees from BJU, all earned their doctorates from accredited, non-religious institutions of higher learning.

The university's nursing major is approved by the South Carolina State Board of Nursing, and a BJU graduate with a BSN is eligible to take the National Council Licensure Examination to become a registered nurse.

Davis Field House BJU abandoned intercollegiate sports in 1933.

The Conference attracts fundamentalist preachers and laymen from around the country, and BJU class reunions are held at the end of the week.

Nevertheless, basic photography and video production are an integral part of the BJU cinema major.

BJU Press originated in the need for textbooks for the burgeoning Christian school movement, and today it is the largest book publisher in South Carolina.

BJU Press also offers distance learning courses via online, DVD, and hard drive.

Graham ’ s father-in-law, L. Nelson Bell, mailed a fiery ten-page letter to most members of the BJU faculty and student body ( as well as to thousands of pastors across the country ) accusing Jones of “ hatred, distortions, jealousies, envying, malice, false witnessing, and untruthfulness .”