Religious Colleges

[Maniac Craniac]

By coincidence, this is exactly what's been on my mind today, too. I'm trying to decide if I should stick with my current MBA program or transfer out. Two of the schools I'm considering are Christian schools, and I am an irreligious agnostic.

For one of those schools, they only bring up religion in certain courses (eg, "Christian Counseling"), but keep it out of courses where it's not relevant.

For another, the school is unabashedly Christian in its ideology, but welcomes people of all sorts. They don't force their views on students, although it might come up from time to time.

I don't think either situation would be a problem for me as a student. My concern is how these schools are viewed by the public. Do people realize that these are academic programs with a superficial sprinkle of religion, or do they imagine that they are religious programs with a superficial sprinkle of academics?

Liberty University has a poor reputation among many life scientists because the school believes that Creationism is science. While someone might be okay getting a public administration degree from there, I wouldn't recommend getting a science degree from there.

I have no interest in touching Liberty with a ten foot pole!

Although, with an 11 foot pole, the MA in Linguistics is somewhat of a temptation. So long as the curriculum doesn't begin with the Tower of Babel.