Alderson Broaddus University is a community of liberal learning grounded in Christian heritage, dedicated to equipping graduates of integrity to lead, serve, and heal in a diverse and changing world.
Approved by the Board of Trustees in 2025, our five-year strategic plan articulates four commitments that will shape the next chapter of AB.
Through the Pickett Center for Rural Health Innovation, expand our pioneering work in primary-care preparation for Appalachia and similar regions across America.
Hold real net price below the regional public-university average; ensure no admitted Battler turns down AB for cost. Strengthen first-generation, transfer, and adult-learner pathways.
Invest in the Hilltop Core curriculum, faculty research, the Honors Program, and the "practical liberal arts" pathway that connects every major to questions of meaning and vocation.
Deepen our partnership with the Town of Philippi, Barbour County, and the American Baptist tradition while welcoming students of every conviction into honest dialogue.
Rigorous academics and exacting professional standards across every program. The world our graduates serve deserves nothing less than their best preparation, and we will not graduate students who are not ready.
A residential campus of 1,100 where faculty know your name, peers become family, and the friendships forged on College Hill last a lifetime.
Rooted in the American Baptist tradition; welcoming people of every faith and conviction into honest, generous dialogue about what matters most.
From rural health clinics to global mission sites, our graduates measure success by the lives they help shape and the burdens they help lift.
Promises kept. Standards held. Truth told plainly. Courage in the small choices that, in the long run, become a life.
We belong to Philippi, to West Virginia, to Appalachia. We are neither apart from nor above this place; we are formed by it and called to its renewal.
Alderson Broaddus is one of the few remaining American universities that takes seriously its Christian founding without insisting all members of the community must share that conviction. We are an institution where the chapel bell rings at 11 on Tuesday mornings, where 17 of our 28 student-life groups are religious, where the chaplain's office door is open every weekday — and also where the Hillel Society holds Shabbat dinner, where the Christian-Muslim Dialogue Project meets monthly, and where atheists and agnostics are full and welcome members of every leadership body.
Our American Baptist tradition is not a wall; it is a foundation. From it, we have drawn the conviction that conscience is sacred, that learning serves love, and that no question is unwelcome — including questions about the tradition itself.
Students of every background find a home here. The shape of that home was given to us by 155 years of Baptist Christians, and we are honored to keep faith with them — even as we extend the table.
