Bob Jones University

Date: Apr 21 2011
Major: Education (This Major's Salary over time)
I had a great experience at BJU but I would not send my children there. It's barely accredited; it's too authoritarian; it claims to enforce a Biblical worldview and yet it engages in some clearly unbiblical practices.

I have found work, most of the time unhindered by my BJU degree, but not always. When I was there, I was championed and helped by caring faculty. But if a student doesn't get that help, it is a tough place to be. I know of students who were bullied by other faculty, and my view of the administration is that many bullies work in the Administration building.

Combine that with wahoos telling you in class and in chapel that if your parents divorced, you were going to get divorced, and if your parents abused you, you'd likely abuse your kids, and you see that these people don't really have faith in Christ. They also don't have a clue about how to deal with young adults. They have faith in Fundamentalism, and Fundamentalism rejects all people that it perceives as defective.

I was able to navigate around the nonsense, and for me the good far outweighed the bad. But I would never risk a young person in a place with so much arbitrary rule making and rule bending by men in authority who are given almost total power without checks and restraints. These guys really think that whatever any authority figure tells you is God's Will for you, which is really dangerous.