Moody Bible Institute

Date: Mar 25 2004
Major: Religion/Religious (This Major's Salary over time)
I'd have to add it is a Bible college with a ministry purpose intended, but if you ever need a job other than ministry, this is a horrid place to have gone.

I certainly didn't get any career development from this place and that came back to haunt me a lot when I looked for a job outside of ministry—if you spend 4 years here and graduate from here, and DON'T go into ministry immediately then 1) the school has limited your work so you have to find a new job 2) you have no training or skills for the work world and must go get it on your own and 3) you have no training even on how the work would GETS a job. I never had a career development class at MBI, not even in ministry sense, but only senior intership. So in reality they don't tell you how to develop a ministry career even, and certainly not for any other job. None of the stuff you learn here is relevant at all to the work world other than if you reliably attend work and class, other than cultural exposure or say music, education, radio or some emphasis. Some of this is good, some of it is bad, especially if you want to do more than MINISTRY in your life. Ironically a lot of Moody grads do not go into ministry right after MBI. So what happens to those that do not? Good question, especially if they don't have other training besides MBI.

Doubtless people will say

It's a BIBLE college, what did you think it was for?

My answer is yes it is, but if you attend here you will not be prepared for the real work world with relevant skills other than a few that cross over, or even how to get a real world job other than by reference from people directly. You'll think you are mighty superior to others theologically (if your naive) but you won't be able to land a job easily unless someone refers you from church, which is seldom the case and is getting less and less that way.