How religious is Belmont University?

RobD
Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:33:34 +0000

Belmont was founded by the Southern Baptists. In the past few years, there has been a major division regarding the Board of Trustees decision to appoint non-Southern Baptists to the Board. The Tennessee Baptist Convention was not happy about this to say the least. I believe there was talk of a lawsuit. See [Belmont University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](Belmont University - Wikipedia) for more info.

I don’t think of Belmont as being exclusively tied to the Country music industry, although its location at the end of Music Row and funding by Mike Curb help with connections to that segment of the industry. Belmont has a lot of ties to the Christian music community, which is also based in Nashville.

My D (not interested in music) did a tour of Belmont & while she liked the profs, when the tour guides started talking about bible studies in the dorms, she knew it wasn’t the place for her. Having said that, we know a couple of kids there who are great musicians, and are not huge church goers.

On another thread a while ago, someone mentioned that when their child visited Belmont, they were shocked by how serious the kids there were about their music careers; some had already produced, recorded, written CD’s etc. Being interested in the music business vs. being interested in the music business at the level that kids are at Belmont can be very different.

I’ll also suggest that he look at MTSU; we have a neighbor who is in that program right now and is pleased; he turned down Belmont for MTSU because of $$$. Kids come from all over the country for the MTSU program, even though it is a mid-tier state u.