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1 Parents be aware when you send your child to the University. 2 Theirs conservatism affects negatively on your student’s ability to learn. They strictly prohibit any contact with the media. 3 From economic point of view such ideology that Bob Jones has is not good for today's business world. 4 There are too many faculty and academic advisors that are under qualified to advise the students about the University’s courses. 5 Many of them are careless toward student’s education. 6 Even though they would call themselves that they are servants but realty is that every human being is seeking benefit from others. 7 You will see some negative attitudes from the students who enrolled into University from Home schools that used the BJU curriculum program toward those students who came from the outside or public schools. 8 Faculty and some under qualified professors are very influential on your students especially when they used and talk about God. 9 It isn’t good school to send your child into. 10 They don’t tell how many former students ending up being broke making ends meet. 11 Another important decision to make that if your son or daughter will make contact with the seminary student chances are they will influence them not in the positive way. 12 The reason for that they are bit under the economic depression because the cost to attend seminary is expensive but pay-off is hard and misery in most cases. 13 God is used as means of controlling the person and as means of the blessing (money). 14 You can feel from some people and students on campus the spirit of the negativity it’s all based on the economic “well being.” 15 Some requirements that students have to go through will affect them negatively. 16 Cultural differences will play dramatic impact on your college student.
3rd Year Male -- Class 2012
Faculty Accessibility: D, Education Quality: F
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1st Year Male -- Class 2012
Campus Aesthetics: B, Education Quality: F
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While there as a student the rules wereReligion/Religious
While there as a student the rules were not a problem for me or my spouse. During those days conservatism was in for dress and politics. After the first few years out, we still highly regarded BJU. But, today the standards at BJU, both academically and in dress have dramatically changed for the worse. The semesters have been cut down by several weeks a year - a tragic mistake and forsaking the permanent on the altar of the immediate. Sit down dinners are gone, the cultural aspect of learning manners at the meal table is sorely needed today in our anti-cultural culture. The dormitories are loosely run - again, lax standards to please the spoiled occupants.

BJU plays to the rich crowd and big city churches - and needs to, to keep themselves afloat with the massive overhead in costs to keep the campus going. There are some normal/average students there - some.

Our training seemed more than adequate at the time of graduation. However, MUCH was to be desired for the practical, day-to-day issues were not dealt with. The opressive attitudes toward pastors in churches and their daily challenges was never divulged as we were painted a rosy picture of the ministry for the most part. Problem solving, admitting to faults, dealing with people - were all non-existent. Perhaps that is because the Joneses don't know how to do that themselves.

We also highly esteemed the University and the Joneses as students. However, life and most of all, maturity, opened our eyes to the cultic allegiance we were trained to have for our "Dr. Bob" and whatever he said, was the height of Truth and wisdom. Sadly, many our age and well beyond our years still maintain the total til death do us part allegiance to BJU and the Joneses - no matter what they do. They feed on the attention and obedience of their facutly, staff and graduates. We have spent many years shedding the callousness and pharisaical attitudes ingrained in us by the Joneses and many of the Faculty and Staff. Without question, many of the Faculty were awesome folks and fantastic people - but almost all are blindly loyal to "Dr. Bob." We have, through time, seen the hypocrisy and total arrogance of the Joneses to uphold their positions as Truth only to turn from the very same teachings and deny them for the sake of politicians and public perception. Don't cross them OR disagree with them - YOU WILL be castigated and villified!

Our children will not be attending - thankfully - nor those we know around us and away from us here. Thankfully we have been delivered from the control of a domineering, caustic, hateful and spiritually immature Jones family who manipulates people through threats, villifies them in letters and in pulpits!

Alumnus Male -- Class 2000
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