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Bob Jones University

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Date: Sep 04 2001
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I fully recommend this college to anyone who wants a quality Christian education. Bob Jones University is a different college which does have rules. Most people who I knew that attended the college did not agree with the rules, but still abided by them while in college. While the rules are tough it makes the rules in your future workplace seem quite easy. I have attended other colleges and Bob Jones did provide me with an education that was equivalent to or better than a good secular education. The structure at the school helped me to discipline myself, which has equated to an excellent work ethic and the discipline that I needed to suceed. There is a lot of talk about how the rules and philosphy hinder you and restrict your freedom of speech or your ability to discuss issues. This notion is utter nonsense. It is the worlds attempt to fool you into thinking that no rules and no restrictions truly means freedom. This was accomplished at the Garden of Eden and continues today all the more stronger. We have rules and consequences for not following rules everyday of our life. It is the weak in character and discipline who believe that they do not need rules. The Christian life is one of discipline. While most of us who graduate from BJ do not follow all of the "strict" rules (i.e. lights out by 10pm, although I wish I could continue this one), I believe the rules will make you a better person, both in your career, your family and your Christian life.

Do not let the accreditation issue disuade you from this school. I personally know many individuals who have graduated from BJ and have gone on to excellent grad schools (i.e. Northwestern, Duke, Harvard, Stanford, Univeristy of Chicago…) with absolutely no problem getting in. Most of the people who do not get into grad schools do not get in because of many other issues (bad grades, placement exams…) and they like to blame it on accreditation. I personally do not know of anyone who did not get into grad school because of the school's lack of accreditation.

As I have moved up the career ladder, I am continually amazed at the number of people who look favorably at the college or who have graduated from the college. There are many political and senior management indivduals who have graduated from the college.

I would fully recommend this college.

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responseGood that you had a positive experience at BJU. This 16 year old review is more fair than most of the positive reviews of BJU I've seen on here so far, but that isn't saying much.

For something that doesn't matter you spent a fair bit of time talking about BJU's lack of regional accreditation. More than one negative review of this school has stated they were limited in their ability to transfer credits or could transfer none at all because no regional accreditation makes the credits- and degree- basically worthless outside of South Carolina. That DOES matter, however much you say it doesn't. And funny that you mention grad schools- I knew someone who was on the admissions board at one part of VCU's graduate college and they told me the board was never delighted to get BJU applications because then they had to figure out whether or not to accept them with an unaccredited degree (that silly national accreditation they ran with for years does not count) as well as addressing the "reputation" of BJU.

Most people, in my experience, have never heard of Bob Jones University. Certainly not a couple states from SC, anyway. Those that have are not so positive about it as you say they generally are. Maybe you met different people than I did, but BJU- among those I know who have even heard of it- is looked at as less a university and more a cult.

I, for one, hold a strongly negative view of BJU, influenced by reading the university student handbook, the university website, and dealing with a very close-minded and dishonest corporate hack (BJU undergrad and graduate degree holder) over the course of almost a year. BJU's noted alumni list on Wikipedia displays a list of lawyers, clergymen, and the occasional senator. Not all of whom are the most, shall we say, normal people you'll encounter.

BJU is not for anyone but Christians. And it isn't even for Christians- it is for a very specific type of Christian and openly says that's all they exist to produce is more people just like them. There's a lot of aspects of life at this place that this review should have touched on and addressed, but doesn't. For instance, to my knowledge BJU still banned interracial dating in 2001.

I try to be fair but who would go here willingly? Is it any wonder that untold hundreds of thousands walk right on by BJU and go just about anyplace else? This place deliberately isolates itself from most of the modern world and that isn't entirely a good thing. Practically every genre of modern music is banned at BJU, including Christian-type derivatives of it. What business is it of theirs to dictate what music you listen to as a paying student?

This place's rules and regs reads like a military college's. Except no military college has a rule banning modern musical genres and forbidding you from viewing films including "false religious or moral assumptions".

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