While Students Flee Public Universities, Christian Schools Are Only Getting Bigger

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• Enrollment at Christian colleges increased at many institutions between 2019 and 2022.
• Factors could include the COVID-19 pandemic and institutions maintaining a Christian identity, higher education experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
• “Students are drawn to colleges with a clear, distinct identity,” Adam Kissel, visiting fellow on higher education reform at the Heritage Foundation, told the DCNF.

Christian colleges and universities are seeing an increase in enrollment despite the national enrollment rate of college students being on a decline, higher education experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The national undergraduate enrollment rate dropped 1.1% during the fall 2022 semester while the rate declined a total of 4.2% since 2020, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Many faith-based institutions, however, saw an increasein enrollment which higher education experts claim is because of these institutions’ commitment to their roots.…


…“We can only grow enrollment as quickly as we can hire qualified new faculty, so that limits our rate of expansion to a healthy, moderate pace,” he explained. “But by God’s grace, we have experienced no difficulty in finding new students.”


Thousands of students, supporters and invited guests sing songs of Christian praise before Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump delivers the convocation in the Vines Center on the campus of Liberty University January 18, 2016 in Lynchburg, Virginia. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

“Students are drawn to colleges with a clear, distinct identity,” Adam Kissel, visiting fellow on higher education reform at the Heritage Foundation, told the DCNF. “Devoutly Christian colleges out-compete colleges that are Christian-in-name-only. If you come from a Christian household and you’re still a Christian and you want a particular Christian experience, you go to an explicitly Christian college more often than to a different kind of Christian college or a secular college…






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it has been widely reported that attendance at colleges and universities has been declining lately. This news report showing that more students are attending religious based schools that practice their beliefs is great news. Schools that are religious by their name only fare no better than public universities regarding declines in over all college attendance.

 

A private actively Christian College or University has always been a better education choice. In todays world thought going that route is essential.

 

What are the actual stats that show enrollment is up as a whole at faith based institutions ?

 

HUH ? You mean teaching about an invisible man in the sky is a better education then true STEM ?

 

What makes you think it’s an either or situation. At a vibrant Christian school one can get both a healthy relationship with God and other people as well as happiness, a sense of belonging AND true STEM education in all the sciences and liberal arts.

 

I guess that you will have to go to the linked news source and read the full article to find out…

 

Lyin’ for Jesus….?

Wheaton: “Enrollment is dwindling. Deficits are mounting. And more closures are looming: that’s the prediction of many higher education experts, who are concerned about the future of small private colleges in America.”

https://magazine.wheaton.edu/storie...fting-landscape-of-christian-higher-education

Christian Colleges Are in Crisis. Here’s What That Means for the Church.

https://www.christianitytoday.com/c...ble-christian-college-crisis-cccu-church.html

“Put a different way, in 2000, two-thirds (66%) of new freshmen at universities associated with Churches of Christ came from within the fellowship compared to less than one-third (28%) in 2022.”

https://religionunplugged.com/news/...iversities-face-challenging-demographic-shift

“More than half of the 62 institutions who participated in the survey reported a decline in traditional undergraduate enrollment. Over half of enrollment at surveyed institutions now consists of undergraduate degree completion and graduate programs, including some seminaries.”

https://www.cccu.org/magazine/reality-check/

 

Thats the sort of perception the ignorant have, Christian Institution like any other leave it up to elective studies

THEY even play sports and stuff too

 

How is that different then a public institution then ?

 

I did. It just says they are "up".....

 

The part before AND in my reply…

 

There was a link there…https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2023/01/return-to-the-classics

 

ok

 

I almost can't blame the parents.

While there was once a time I thought parents were being ridiculous for taking their children out of public schools because they did not trust what was being taught, by now the situation has become so ridiculous that it is getting understandable, to rational and reasonable parents.

Some of these children being sent to Christian schools even come from non-Christian families, or families that do not take their religion very seriously at all. That is how bad things have become.

 

Time for public vouchers to help pay for private schools?

related thread: Battle for homeschool funding

 

if one has the money, they go to private schools

the FED is trying to cool the hot Biden economy, so this may go down

 

OK, Whos GOD do we teach about then.....

 

I say just give people that want to go to a private school a tax cut for the amount they paid for public school, no way should we be giving religious schools 5 grand for every child they entice to go to their schools, especially when most of them are against birth control, a family of 10 would cost a fortune 10 vouchers x $50,000.00 x 13 years = $1,300,000 for just one family (tax free), no wonder Muslims and Christians want vouchers

 

From your link:

So isn't this the same "liberal indoctrination" that you have been screaming about ?

Look, I have no problem with a persons faith, but when their "faith" override facts, thats where I draw a line when talking about "education". STEM is real, the bible is a a book of fables written by MEN.

 

I thought republicans wanted to reduce abortions

"Religious school grads likelier to have abortions"

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/heal...l-grads-likelier-have-abortions-flna1C9437875

 

This is patently false. Seriously a ludicrous statement.

Also, the school in the link below is not a Christian school. It is very much a public school. It ranks high in academics with excellent job placement and salary after graduation. Name a 3 christian schools that rank higher.

https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/rel...dent-enrollment-record-in-west-lafayette.html

One doesn’t have to spend much time to destroy your premise

 

I call this BS. I think what is going on is more and more people are going to college/university. Public universities are not looking at a decline in enrollment. What they are doing is capping their enrollment University of Texas, The Ohio State University, and others have capped their freshman enrollment as well as transfers. Baylor University, a private Christian University, has capped its enrollment for undergraduates. What they are doing is trying to expand their graduate programs and that takes research money, grants, and projects, as well as getting the students to come. But Baylor is not known for its graduate programs, but rather its undergraduate programs, especially Business, teachers, pre-med, and a few others.

https://www.statista.com/statistics...ojections-in-public-and-private-institutions/

 

Leave thst up to the school and the religious organization that operates it.

 

God has no place in factual education. NONE !

Would you be OK with a college that teaches the Quran ?

 

Totally. I think of all Nobel Prize winners and atom splitters that have come out of Liberty University.