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Southern Adventist University is a private Seventh-day Adventist college in Collegedale, Tennessee. It is owned and operated by the Southern Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. It was founded in 1892 in Graysville, Tennessee, as Graysville Academy and was the first Adventist school in the southern U.

Collegedale is a city in Hamilton County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 8,282 at the 2010 census and 11,492 in a 2018 estimate. Collegedale is a suburb of Chattanooga and is part of the Chattanooga, TN–GA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Collegedale is home to Southern Adventist University.