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Sonoma Adventist College is located inland from Kokopo on the Gazelle Peninsula, East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea (PNG). It is a coeducational tertiary college offering various certificates, diplomas and degrees across a range of disciplines, including agriculture, building construction, commerce, primary education, and theology.
Soonan Academy (Korean Industrial School) was the first secondary education institution in the Korean Adventist Church and was established in Soonan, Pyeongannam-do, in 1909 and operated by the Adventist Church until 1937. This academy was converted to a public school in 1937 and left the Korean Adventist Church’s Institution.
South East Adventist Seminary is located in Hpa-an, Myanmar. It was established in 1970.
South India Training School was established to train indigenous workers at the high school level for Adventist missions in South India; over time it developed into Spicer College, the flagship institution of the Southern Asia Division. Spicer Adventist University in Pune and Lowry Adventist College in Bangalore both grew from this institution.
South Philippine Adventist College Academy (SPACA) began in Digos, Davao del Sur, in 1950, as an elementary school. It was registered with the name Digos SDA Elementary School.
The Southern Academy of Seventh-day Adventists is a privately-run, co-educational secondary school for students eleven to nineteen years of age, located just outside San Fernando, South Trinidad, along the Palmiste Branch Road, Duncan Village La Romain. It is one of four Adventist secondary schools in the country, with a constituency that stretches from Guayaguayare in the south east to Cedros in the south west, as well as much of central Trinidad.
Southern Adventist University is a Seventh-day Adventist coeducational liberal arts college offering sixty-four baccalaureate majors, seventeen associate majors, ten masters degrees, and one doctoral degree program. Its enrollment in the fall of 2018 was 2,942 undergraduate and graduate students.
Spicer Adventist University is the premier educational institution of the Southern Asia Division of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
St. John’s Seventh-day Adventist Academy in Newfoundland was a coeducational day school situated in the city of St. John’s, Newfoundland. It operated from 1905 to 2003.
Suji Secondary School traces its beginning to 1906, when Seventh-day Adventist German missionaries established the mission center. It started as a primary school and continued as such until it developed into a teacher training school in 1926.
Sydney Adventist College commenced operation at Burwood, Sydney, in 1937. In 1948 the school transferred to Albert Road, Strathfield, where it operated until closed at the end of 2012.
The Helping Hand Mission (1898-1907) in Melbourne was a charitable enterprise that benefited the poor and needy as a result of efforts by the Seventh-day Adventist church members.
Kollegal School for Speech and Hearing Impaired is located in a rural setting just outside the town of Kollegal in Karnataka, India. Funded by Asian Aid, Australia, and Child Impact International and operated by the Adventist Church, it is a boarding school with one hundred students.
Tirad View Academy was established in 1965. It is in Quirino, Ilocos Sur, Philippines.
Toraja View Academy, also known as Sekolah Lanjutan Advent, is a co-educational boarding school for junior and senior high school levels operated by Luwu Tana Toraja Mission. It is located on an estate of about 38 acres (15 hectares), 228 miles (365 kilometers) north of Makassar (Ujung Pandang), in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. The school draws students mainly from South Celebes and Southeast Celebes. The majority of the students are Torajanese.
The Ukrainian Adventist Center of Higher Education (UACHE) is located in the town of Bucha, Kiev Region, Ukraine. The UACHE incorporates the Ukrainian Institute of Humanities and the Ukrainian Adventist Theological Institute and offers a wide range of academic programs.
Several unofficial Adventist educational centers were organized during the Soviet regime, because the government officials denied the Adventist church an opportunity to train future ministers. Such centers were, among other places, in Rostov-on-Don, under the leadership of J. J. Wilson, and Kyiv, under the leadership of I.A. Lvov.
Union College is a co-educational liberal arts baccalaureate college in Lincoln, Nebraska, founded by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1891. The college has continuously operated on the same site and under the same name since it was founded.
Before 1922, the state of New York was divided into three Adventist conferences: the Greater New York Conference (1902- ), which encompassed the metropolitan New York City area; the Western New York Conference (1906-1922), which operated a secondary school near Salamanca successively called the Tunesassa School (1906-1907), Tunesassa Intermediate School (1907-1913), Fernwood Intermediate School (1913-1917), and Fernwood Academy (1917-1921); and the Eastern New York Conference (1906-1922), which operated Clinton Academy for one year (1920-1921).
The University of Arusha, originally known as Arusha Adventist Seminary, is an institution of higher learning operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Tanzania, under the Adventist philosophy of education (holistic education) and policy to meet its mission locally and internationally.