NORTH EAST ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY

North East Adventist University is a Seventh-day Adventist institution of higher learning situated seven km from Jowai, India, within the Seventh-day Adventist education system, described as the world's second largest Christian school system. Established in 1941 by Pr. O.W Lange as the Assam Training School, it was inaugurated in 1942 by Sir Robert Reid, then Governor of Assam. Following Meghalaya's statehood in 1972, it was renamed the Adventist Training School (ATS). It functioned as a Secondary School before being upgraded to a Higher Secondary School in 1997, recognized by the Meghalaya Board of School Education (MBOSE). From 1999 to 2019, it was affiliated with North Eastern Hill University (NEHU), and on 29 April 2019 it was upgraded to university status under the Northeast Adventist University Act, 2015. The campus occupies 89.94 acres of pine-wooded hills at Khliehtyrshi, Thadlaskein, near National Highway 44. It offers courses in Arts and Humanities, Science, Health, Allied Science, and Management & Commerce, along with a Higher Secondary section covering Arts, Commerce, and Science streams.