Dr. Crouch noted that some Baptist universities that severed ties with state conventions in the late 1980's and early 1990's have become essentially secular.

A Baptist university with several former Woodstock collegiate students, McMaster was a natural choice for him.

Baylor University purports to be the largest Baptist university in the world, having an enrollment of over 14,000 students.

Though located on the campus of a Baptist university, Beeson remains interdenominational.

The cause was a heart attack, said a spokeswoman for Baylor, the nation's largest Baptist university.

Campbell now enrolls roughly 10,000 students, making it one of the largest Baptist universities in the country.

It emerged from a Baptist university of the same name that had closed in 1886 due to financial difficulties.

The campus of the world's largest Baptist university would remain unsullied by rock, jitterbug or even ballroom dancing.

It was founded as a Baptist university, though it is now a non-denominational high school.