Yes it is, although with its partnership programs making tuition, room and board so affordable for many, the number of students who identify as “Christian” is becoming a minority.
My point to my post is that cost is becoming the major factor for families when deciding on whether a Christian college is worth it. Many families now have no loyalty to their church schools because they have become out of reach for the middle class. Hope College in Michigan was mentioned, but its tuition, room and board is still $48k a year. Its academic scholarship for an above-average student is $13k a year making it $35k a year, still much more than state schools. But more importantly for Christian families, what exactly do their students get that makes it worth the extra money? Hope College (along with many other similar schools) has moved so far away from its heritage of beliefs in order to stay “relevant” that it’s hard to know what you’re “getting” extra that you couldn’t find elsewhere for a lot less of an investment.