<p>^^ Duke is Methodist kind of like Emory is and kind of like University of Chicago is Baptist.</p>
<p>I've just briefly skimmed this thread, but have to warn you about many of these suggestions. While many are "religiously affiliated" (Davidson, Furman, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Duke, etc.), they have enormous party scenes. If the kids in your youth group aren't comfortable with some serious drinking, I would avoid all the schools I just listed. </p>
<p>I'm not sure about Pepperdine. One of my friends visited and loved it, and it is super-conservative (with a large Evangelical presence), but I doubt that religion is a major facet of campus life.</p>
<p>Anyone for Thomas Aquinas College?</p>
<p>I've worked in Christian higher ed for more than a decade. I assume the original post was looking for evangelical schools. If so, the best Christian colleges in the nation are:</p>
<p>Wheaton College
Biola University
Grove City
George Fox University
Gordon College
Azusa Pacific University
Taylor University</p>
<p>Many of the colleges listed in the string are not considered "Christian colleges."</p>
<p>hey college pro. Can you provide some more details on biola and azusa?</p>
<p>I live in Ventura County(not far from LA) but not many people talk about biola university or azusa pacific university.</p>
<p>A very wise and learned Christian homeschool couple friends of mine for whose opinions I have a great deal of respect strongly suggest Biola. Their oldest daughter attends (I think she graduates this spring) and their second daughter is planning to apply for Fall 2010.</p>
<p>Not to cause irritation or be disagreeable, but the notion of Duke & Emory "being" Methodist and Chicago Baptist is right if one is talking about history, roots, and faith of the school fathers. Beyond that all 3 being labeled as such is laughable, and altho I've not looked lately, they'd not describe themselves as such. Lovely chapels, but owning a car doesn't mean one can drive. College Pro's list while not comprehensive, would probably be deemed quite an accurate start among those in the know and informed sufficiently to know not only some of the answers, but the most likely meaning of the question.</p>
<p>^^ Whistle Pig: That's precisely my point in Post #81, which was responding to Post #80.</p>
<p>Yep, thanx for getting me straightened away.:confused:</p>
<p>"Christian homeschool couple friends of mine for whose opinions I have a great deal of respect strongly suggest Biola."</p>
<p>Biola (formerly Bible Institute of Los Angeles) mission: "To equip men and women in mind and character to impact the world for the Lord Jesus Christ. We are the only evangelical university that requires all of their students and faculty to profess Jesus Christ as their Savior, to take 30 units of Bible, and is ranked by the US News & World Report as a National University."</p>
<p>These kids who were homeschooled are then sent to a college with no tolerance for anyone - student or otherwise - who is not a professing Christian, a college that brags that they're listed as a national university in U.S. News when they're ranked in the fourth tier, and the kids then dedicate a full year of their higher education to Biblical studies. This is an unfair and stereotyped assumption, but as a person who hires a lot of college grads, I have to make assumptions from the specific information listed on applicant resumes - I can see no way that these graduates will have the diverse perspectives or intellectual flexibility to be competent 21st century citizens, and their resumes will be the first ones I edit out.</p>
<p>^^ Sorry, Gadad. The homeschool parents to whom I referred are not at all intolerant as you suggest. You are wholly ignorant of them, their educations, their backgrounds, and their character.</p>
<p>Biola has every right to require students and faculty to be professing Christians and to require whatever course of study Biola wishes to prescribe. For you to suggest otherwise reveals your own intolerance. The Constitution prohibits Congress (and the states by virtue of the fourteenth amendment) from restricting the free exercise of religion. You have no right to restrict the free exercise of religion either.</p>
<p>Four tier or not, by your own admission, Biola is precisely what it claims to be, a USNWR national university.</p>
<p>Biola is not my cup of tea. It obviously isn't yours. That is my right and that is your right.</p>
<p>But the unfair and stereotyped assumptions evidenced in the last few posts on this thread are your own.</p>
<p>Gadad: BTW, one of those resumes that you edit out due to your religious intolerance may belong to someone who will sue your employer for your admitted religion-based discrimination.</p>
<p>In case I do go to a Christian college such as Pepperdine or Biola, is there a lot of pressure from the Christian students?</p>
<p>My sister and BIL are devout members of the church of Christ. They call themselves nondenominational, but that is because they think they are the 'true' Christian church, sigh.....Anyway, their kids went to Harding U. in Searcy, Ark. Strongly affiliated with the churches of Christ. {not talking about the United Church of Christ--quite different}.</p>
<p>Since so many Christian churches/denominations have the main tenets in common, but differences that they consider very important, the colleges that are actively affilitated with a specific Christian denomination would be a good fit for students of that denomination. </p>
<p>I taught nursing students from Franciscan U. of Steubenville. VERY fundamentalist Catholic. See above. </p>
<p>There are Christian colleges which are not so strongly affiliated with a particular denomination/church/way of interpreting the Bible, etc. but are still strong faith-based institutions. </p>
<p>Then there are the schools which may at one time have been very religious, but that was a long time ago. </p>
<p>I personally like the schools assoc. with the Religious Society of Friends--Quakers. Generally not conservative, at least not in the East. But then, I agree with the tenets of the Quakers.</p>
<p>Don't forget about Boston college, catholic, great school</p>
<p>^^^ Not religion-based - educationally-based. I have no problem whatsoever hiring committed Christians with relevant higher educations (I happen to be one :) ).</p>
<p>^^ Your previous posts speak for themselves.</p>
<p>which colleges are known to provide non-need aid?</p>
<p>I haven't really seen Taylor U mentioned? My d is looking at GCC, Wheaton, maybe Gordon or Messiah, and Taylor......</p>
<p>KoreanBoi, Biola is a great college. It is very conservative, though. They literally lock down the dorms after curfew, and you can't get in our out at those times. </p>
<p>Azusa is known as the party school of the southern California Christian colleges. Many apartment buildings in the area won't rent to students from there because of issues they have had in the past. I don't know much about the academics there, though.</p>
<p>Is there anyone who has attended Franciscan University (or parents) who can tell me more about the music and theater programs at Franciscan? We are looking for a conservative Catholic college. My D is also interested in a music/theater major. When I have asked the school for information about these, they just sent the standard brouchure.</p>