<p>Anyone have any rankings of Christian colleges? I have looked everywhere but was not able to find any.</p>
<p>There will be debate about what "Christian" means, and I'm not sure the usual ranking factors will apply if your talking "Christian" in a somewhat narrow way, but I found these books helpful for evaluating options.</p>
<p>A list of schools included in the above. the book below covers a much broader variety of schools, including "secular" ones.</p>
<p>Like Shrinkrap said, you'll need to define what you mean by 'Christian'. Lots of top schools like Georgetown, Boston College, and Notre Dame have important Christian affiliations and a Jesuit presence on campus, but the student bodies are not noticeably religious and they don't exactly force it down your throat.</p>
<p>On the other hand, if you are looking for a much more in-depth religious experience, you will have to look a little harder as colleges like that are not very popular. Start here:</p>
<p>Wheaton College is tops.</p>
<p>Wheaton in Illinois, not Massachusetts (to clarify)</p>
<p>The list I linked is in PDF; does anyone know how to copy and paste it? Anyway around here (Cal) Biola (Formerly known as Bible Institute of Los Angeles) is highly respected.</p>
<p>Wheaton. </p>
<p>Where a divorce means the end of a professor's career (unless he openly accuses his wife of adultery or desertion).
From Chicago Tribune article about English professor Kent Gramm:
*Many theological conservatives say the New Testament permits divorce only in cases of adultery or desertion. Wheaton requires faculty and staff to sign a faith statement and adhere to standards of conduct in areas including marriage, said Provost Stan Jones. *Wheaton College professor's divorce costs him his job -- -- chicagotribune.com</p>
<p>And if you teach at Wheaton, whatever you do, don't become a Catholic.
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The college has lost faculty in the past for issues relating to its faith statement. Joshua Hochschild, now an assistant professor of philosophy at Mt. St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg, Md., left Wheaton College several years ago after he converted to Roman Catholicism. Wheaton officials said Catholicism contradicted the college's beliefs by setting up a spiritual authority in addition to Scripture.
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<p>How about Calvin College and Hope College in Michigan? I have heard they are both good.</p>
<p>Liberty University is a good one. Jerry Falwell's school (PBUH).</p>
<p>i love religion.</p>
<p>A boy at my D's school with a 2360 SAT is going to Liberty.</p>
<p>pepperdine u in california is fairly well-known and religous</p>
<p>I agree with Pepperdine.</p>
<p>Look at Gordon College in MA. They are a strong Christian school without making a big deal about it.</p>
<p>I think Hope is like that too. Strong Christian school.</p>
<p>I'm sorry Tyler; I don't mean to cause a war here. But assuming that by "Christian" college you're not including Jesuit schools like Georgetown and Notre Dame, or schools with non-intrusive Protestant affiliations like Duke and Davidson, the notion of "Christian college" with "prestigious" is not very compatible. Or, at best, the prestige factor will be among a small group of people in society who aren't very representative of the population as a whole. The reason is that there's an inherent incongruity between having an institution that's supposed to facilitate an unfettered exploration for "truth" governed by a body that has predetermined the boundaries of what it will allow to be considered true.</p>
<p>I'm not Christian-bashing here - I'm saying this as an ordained Presbyterian elder - but I think it would be misleading to have a young person think that their college choice will open doors outside of its denomination if in fact, many outside the denomination (and perhaps, within it) are likely to be skeptical if not dismissive, toward it.</p>
<p>I think it's important to pick a school where you will feel comfortable religiously. As a self proclaimed godless heathen I hated the school I am leaving next fall ....because of the religious affiliation. I can not stand it being forced down my throat. I think that it may be the same (albeit in reverse) for a very religious person on a secular campus. I think you should defiantly go to somewhere like Wheaton if religious life is that important to you.</p>
<p>What makes you think that the young person must necessarily be searching for a college choice to "open doors" (e.g., for a high-paying job, perhaps) instead of one that simply honors and furthers his or her faith?</p>
<p>^I'm thinking Tyler has no idea he's generated so many responses, but you've got to wonder about juxtaposing the core values of "Christian" schools (and I'm talking about those that make Pepperdine look liberal) with the more "wordly" values implied by "prestigious" rankings.Alive looked at this quite a bit over the last yearend it's been suite an eye opener for me.</p>
<p>I think there are at least 3 Lutheran schools in the top 100 USNWR rankings. Check it out--some more Lutheran than others, by experience.</p>
<p>First we have to know what the OP means by "Christian". Two of last years debates about whats "Christian".</p>
<p>A quote from one of the threads...</p>
<p>"I will also say that Biola is the only school considered to be a "National" University among the over 100 schools on the Christian College Counsel - but US NEWS will not rank it out of the 4th tier because of it's mission statement and refusal to hire faculty/staff that is not Christian."</p>