Plans for the college, initially named Christian Broadcasting Network University, started in 1977 by CBN author and current Chancellor Pat Robertson. In 1990, the name was changed to Regent University.[9] The college's name is intended to reference an official, a man who practices power in a monarchical nation amid the nonattendance or inadequacy of the sovereign; as per the school's inventory, "an official is one who speaks to Christ, our Sovereign, in whatever circle of life he or she might be called to serve Him."[10] The college's present aphorism is "Christian Leadership to Change the World."
The top notch, comprising of seventy-seven understudies, started in fall of 1978 when the school rented classroom space in Chesapeake, Virginia.[10] The main understudies were all selected in what is currently the School of Communication and the Arts. In May 1980, the primary graduating class held its initiation, while the School of Education opened the next October. At the same time, the college took habitation surprisingly on its present grounds in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The school continued to open its schools of business, holiness, government, and law by the mid-1980s. In 1984, Regent University got accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. In 1997, what might later turn into the School of Business and Leadership guided an online Master of Arts program, a precursor to the college's improvement of online education.[4]
In 1995, the college opened an optional grounds in Alexandria, Virginia, taking after an effort program designed for educators in the Washington, D.C. territory. This office was later sold. In 2000, Regent started a college degree-finish educational programs under the sponsorship of another project, the Center for Professional Studies. This would later turn into the School of Undergraduate Studies, before at last being renamed as the College of Arts and Sciences in 2012RD
