The Desert News had a feature this month on a college that could be mistaken for an extension campus of Brigham Young University: Southern Virginia University.

SVU is a relatively young college in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. The student body is 97% Mormon. The college is in Buena Vista, Virginia - about 40 miles north of Lynchburg.

Religions News gives a brief synopsis of the school's history:

SVU began as a girl's finishing school in 1867 and became a junior college before a group of Mormons rescued it from financial peril 12 years ago. Since then, it has grown from 76 students to 700, and in early May graduated 129 students.

The school is accredited by the American Academy for Liberal Education.

Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains
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