Southern Adventist University is a college in Collegedale, Tennessee. It is owned and operated by the Southern Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. U.S. News & World Report categorizes it as a Southern Regional College and the magazine has consistently ranked it as one of the top tier schools in that category. Southern Adventist University occupies a 1000-acre campus in a rural setting in the Tennessee River Valley. The college operates a radio station, WSMC-FM, a health food store and a wellness center. It was founded in 1892 under the name Graysville Academy and was the first Adventist school in the South. The institution underwent several name changes during the 19th and 20th centuries, when it was known successively as Southern Industrial School, Southern Training School, Southern Junior College, Southern Missionary College, and Southern College of Seventh-day Adventists, before adopting its current name. Southern offers baccalaureate, associate and master's degrees. Southern has a strong record of acceptances into medical, dental, and law schools and its symphony orchestra, concert band, choral groups, and gymnastics team tour internationally.