What are some of the top christian colleges?

CaptainRbrt · 06-25-2009, 01:33 PM

I've recently been considering atttending a Christian College and was wonder what are some of the better ones? I want to stay close to the east coast so schools in that location are preferred.

gadad · 06-30-2009, 05:36 PM

There are two threads about this on the second page of this forum.

dshinka · 07-03-2009, 01:00 AM

Wheaton college in Illinois is probably the most prestigious academically. I'd call it the Harvard of Christian schools.

Other good ones are Grove City College in Pennsylvania, Taylor University in Indiana (US World News Report ranks this as the number one baccalaureate college in the mid-west), Cedarville University, Ouachita Baptist University (US World News Report ranks this as the number one baccalaureate college in the south).

There are many other good ones - some others I looked at were Gardner-Webb University and Asbury College but I was looking specifically for Christian Colleges with good pure math programs and those colleges, from what I could tell from their course offerings (offering advanced courses in Abstract Algebra, Topology, and Complex and Real Analysis).

I assume you meant better academically. Spiritually? I don't know.

Wartsandall · 07-03-2009, 01:42 AM

Chapman and Pepperdine are good too

phear_me · 07-03-2009, 10:12 PM

Some of you people have no idea what you're talking about. Chapman isn't a Christian school and Pepperdine is hardly Christian these days.

The top two Christian schools are Wheaton College for the Liberal Arts Colleges and Biola University for the National Universities.

Wartsandall · 07-11-2009, 12:45 PM

O ok, well Chapman students aren't required to take religious classes, but it says that it's related "by covenant to the Christian Church" so it's still not a bad place to go if your Christian. Thanks for correcting me

teamfrangela92 · 07-11-2009, 12:46 PM

Perhaps Pepperdine and Liberty?

gwu_girl · 07-11-2009, 06:36 PM

Pepperdine is hardly Christian these days.

Pepperdine has "mandatory chapel" for a grade and three religion classes required for general ed. There's a curfew. You can get kicked out for having alcohol (even if over 21) and premarital sex. I'd say it's pretty Christian.

Creekland · 07-12-2009, 07:34 AM

Besides the ones listed above, we've found Covenant College in GA (Forbes lists them 2nd highest of Christian schools to Wheaton when listing all colleges - US News lists them 4th of baccalaureates in the south). Then Baylor in TX - I'm not sure how they are across the board, but we're looking at them for their medical school (+ undergrad) and it ranks highly for that.

We're in the same boat as you in hunting down good rep Christian schools.