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Christian university in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, US

Not to be confused with William Carey International University or William Carey University, Meghalaya.

William Carey University (Carey, William Carey, or WCU) is a privateChristian university in Mississippi, affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention and the Mississippi Baptist Convention.

The main campus is in Hattiesburg and a second campus is in the Tradition community north of Biloxi.

William Carey University was founded by W. I. Thames in 1892 as Pearl River Boarding School in Poplarville, Mississippi.

A disastrous fire destroyed the school in 1905, and in 1906, with the backing of a group of New Orleans businessmen, Thames reopened the school in Hattiesburg as South Mississippi College. Another fire destroyed the young institution, forcing it to close.

In 1911, W. S. F. Tatum acquired the property and offered it as a gift to the Baptists, and the school reopened as Mississipp