Moody Bible Institute

Date: Mar 10 2006
Major: Religion/Religious (This Major's Salary over time)
The positive review seems to believe that if you take advantage of MBI, things will go just great. Don't we all wish that was true? Read MY review. You'll Get the TRUE RUNDOWN.

IN SHORT:

Three reasons to go to MBI:

1) To get familiar with tools of the trade of Christian ministry that pastors and missionaries use (books, authors, and thinking). Every thing your pastor knows and keeps to himself too much at church.

2) To listen to the good, but not superb professors

(yeah once you've graduated for a while, you realize they make much more mistakes than you thought while AT MBI).

3) To get a job directly out of MBI in ministry ONLY (the problem is, that is happening less & less because of several reasons).

Reasons NOT to go to MBI:

1) No tools of the work world are given (absolutely none).

Want to earn a modest living and pay for your family? Don't go here unless you want to work for a church such as the one you attend now.

2) There is no way to hook up with a potential mate here (It's just not Moody Bridal, like students errorenously suggest it is.)

This shouldn't be the case, but it was when I attended, and its a HUGE problem when you can't meet the opposite sex that will depress you—believe me—it WILL catch up to you. I found my fiance well after MBI and she was not even Christian at the time—contrary to the MBI view that you must wait 59 years for the right mate to fall from heaven into your lap will faithfully serving a church.

3) It left me with absolutely no social network upon graduation—and very little network while at the school—the place socially SUCKS, that is the bottom line, sadly.

If you need a social network for life and work, don't think about it for 4 years if you attend here. The typical MBI's student social life IS to be making one or two runs to the coffee shop a week with your roomate or to the dorm snack shop—this is the place for you (aside from your weekly PCM "ministry"). Even then, networking is limited. And most of your "friendly" dorm buddies will be glad to go there own way in 2 semesters or graduation.

4) It doesn't impact the city of Chicago much at all—it has much more impact OUTSIDE the city of Chicago.

Even when at school every MBI student attending this school notices this—and its really really noticable if you graduate MBI and live in Chicago after graduation (like I did for many years). MBI simply has little effect in Chicago other than a few churches—its main followers are spread accross the USA and globally—not in the city or area MBI is located. MBI doesn't reach that many people around it.