Southern Benedictine College

Southern Benedictine College was a Catholic Benedictine college and seminarian in Cullman, Alabama, USA. Previously called Saint Bernard College, it closed its doors as a college in 1979. However, today the institution is a preparatory school with 160 or so students with 60 or so rooming on the large farm based religious community of Benedictine monks.

Saint Bernard College had been conferring degrees since 1893 as a college preparatory school. Between 1948 and 1953, the Board of Trustees worked on expanding the institution to four-year-college status; the first class graduated in 1955. Saint Bernard College then received its accreditation as a senior college the next year from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and operated until 1979. It served the secondary-educational needs of hundreds in the baby-boom generation. Many students arriving from the Greater Philadelphia area, New Jersey, Michigan, Georgia, New York state, Knoxville,TN finding this rural college ideal for their college experience.

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