Brigham Young University Idaho is a four-year private university owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints located in Rexburg, Idaho, USA. The school was founded in 1888 as the Bannock Stake Academy and would later be known as Ricks Normal College and eventually Ricks College before transitioning from a junior college to a four-year institution in 2001 as BYU-Idaho. It is part of the Church Educational System of the LDS Church, and is a sister school of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah; Brigham Young University-Hawaii in Laie, Hawaii; and the LDS Business College in Salt Lake City.