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Former names | Pacific Adventist College |
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| Motto | Educate to Serve |
| Type | Private |
| Established | 1984[1] |
| Affiliation | Seventh-day Adventist Church |
| Chancellor | Prof Glen Townend |
| Vice-Chancellor | Prof Raul Lauzano |
| Students | more than 1000[2] |
| Location | , , Papua New Guinea 9°24′21″S 147°16′32″E / 9.40575°S 147.27561°E |
| Campus | Koiari Park Campus |
| Website | www |
Pacific Adventist University (PAU) is a tertiary institution located 21 kilometres (30 minutes) outside Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, and operated by the South Pacific Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Both the faculty and the student body are international in composition. While most students come from Papua New Guinea and other Pacific island nations such as Tonga, Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands, others have come from Africa, Australia, Pakistan, China, the Philippines, and the United States.
It is a part of the Seventh-day Adventist education system, the world's second largest Christian school system.[3][4][5][6]
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- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 October 2007. Retrieved 15 July 2007.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2010/1115/For-real-education-reform-take-a-cue-from-the-Adventists"the second largest Christian school system in the world has been steadily outperforming the national average – across all demographics."
- ^ "Seventh-day Adventists – Christian Denomination | Religion Facts". Archived from the original on 23 March 2015. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
- ^ "Department of Education, Seventh-day Adventist Church". Archived from the original on 17 October 2017. Retrieved 18 June 2010.
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