Mission In Action

From its inception in 1935 as a Bible institute to train pastors and missionaries, Southeastern has rested on a solid foundation of vision and faith. That foundation has held firmly as our school evolved and relocated through the years, gradually expanding its mission and degree offerings along with its student population, and moving in 1952 to our permanent suburban campus in Lakeland, Florida.

Today, vision and faith still underlie Southeastern University. An Assemblies of God university – coeducational and primarily residential – Southeastern enrolls 3,069 students, both traditional and nontraditional, who represent a variety of denominations, personal interests, backgrounds, states, and countries.

We offer a vital, Christ-centered education that, through a wide range of academic majors leading to bachelor’s and master's degrees, prepares our students for a life of world-changing leadership in church-related positions and in other professional fields. Arriving at Southeastern as people committed to following Jesus Christ, these students graduate ready either to enter graduate study or to serve throughout the world as ministers, teachers/educators, social service and mental health professionals, and business men and women.

Our programs of study span the following academic areas: religion, behavioral and social sciences, education, languages, communication arts, music, natural sciences and mathematics, and business.

Along with academic preparation, Southeastern provides many opportunities for voluntary service ministry in our local community and abroad. Frequent chapel services, a thriving music program, a variety of clubs and associations, and intercollegiate and intramural sports add to our students’ full and busy lives.

Ideally, a student educated within Southeastern’s Christian academic community displays these abilities and experiences:

Saying “yes” to Christ, we believe, implies not only a zeal to serve, but a commitment to excellence in every activity. Southeastern University seeks to graduate men and women who combine faith, compassion, and humility with self-discipline and careful thinking; who take seriously the Biblically based obligation and privilege of being “the salt of the earth”; and who consequently approach every task – a class assignment, a volunteer project, an internship experience, a career –as an opportunity both to do well and to do good.