Jacksonville College is a junior college in Jacksonville, Texas, United States. It belongs to the Baptist Missionary Association of America, and receives financial support from Southern Baptists of Texas, the conservative state convention affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. The college's current president is Mike Smith, who has served in that capacity since 2011.
The college is known for its singing groups - a main choir, a smaller group called The Singers, a women's trio, and a men's quartet.
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“[B]y going to the College [William and Mary] I shall get a more universal Acquaintance, which may hereafter be serviceable to me; and I suppose I can pursue my Studies in the Greek and Latin as well there as here, and likewise learn something of the Mathematics.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)