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The '''Southern Baptist Theological Seminary''' ('''SBTS''') is a [[Baptist]] [[theological institute]] in [[Louisville, Kentucky]]. It is affiliated with the [[Southern Baptist Convention]]. The seminary was founded in 1859 in [[wikipedia:Greenville, South Carolina|Greenville, South Carolina]], where it was at first housed on the campus of [[wikipedia:Furman University|Furman University]]. The seminary has been an innovator in theological education, establishing one of the first [[wikipedia:Ph.D.|Ph.D.]] programs in religion in the year 1892. After being closed during the [[wikipedia:South Carolina in the American Civil War|Civil War]], it moved in 1877 to a newly built campus in [[wikipedia:downtown Louisville|downtown Louisville]] and moved to its current location in 1926 in the [[wikipedia:Crescent Hill, Louisville|Crescent Hill]] neighborhood. In 1953, Southern became one of the few seminaries to offer a full, accredited degree course in church music. For more than fifty years Southern has been one of the world's [[List of schools accredited by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada|largest theological seminaries]], with an FTE (full-time equivalent) enrollment of over 3,300 students in 2015.<ref>{{cite web |title=Annual of the 2015 Southern Baptist Convention |url=http://www.sbcec.org/bor/2015/2015SBCAnnual.pdf |page=217 |access-date=January 23, 2016 |archive-date=January 29, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160129053819/http://www.sbcec.org/bor/2015/2015SBCAnnual.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>