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Bob Jones University

How this student rated the school
Educational QualityB Faculty AccessibilityC
Useful SchoolworkC- Excess CompetitionC+
Academic SuccessC Creativity/ InnovationD
Individual ValueF University Resource UseB
Campus Aesthetics/ BeautyB FriendlinessC
Campus MaintenanceA Social LifeD
Surrounding CityB Extra CurricularsD
SafetyA
Describes the student body as:
Friendly, Afraid, Arrogant, Snooty, Closeminded

Describes the faculty as:
Condescending, Unhelpful

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Date: Oct 21 2014
Major: Music - Performance (This Major's Salary over time)
I attended Bob Jones University for three unfortunate semesters.

My parents attended this University and as my father was/is a Baptist fundamentalist pastor, they had every intention of sending me and my siblings there as well. As I was completely sheltered in the Bob Jones brand of fundamentalism, I had little opportunity to see the university as it really is.

I arrived on campus with every intention to be a success. I was a music major and secretly harbored hopes of going to a music conservatory after graduation. I was completely unprepared for the stifling, academic, spiritual and social environment that I was stepping into. I struggled immediately with juggling the demanding course work with my practice time. I had an on-campus job that was not at all sympathetic to my needs as a student. I was made fun of because I was working in a warehouse and was a music major.

The rules are overbearing and many good students are penalized for simply messing up or forgetting a rule. I was made APC (Assistant Prayer Captain) my last semester which means that I was the "leader" of my room as well as two other rooms. About three weeks before the end of the semester, I was going to turn in an English paper when my computer-to-printer connection malfunctioned. I couldn't even get the paper off my computer to print elsewhere. So, I decided to skip a couple classes in order to re-type the paper on another computer and print it off. Of course, I was recorded as "absent" and reported to the Discipline Committee (the DC is a place where you have to go confess your sins/beg for leniency when you are written up for an infraction). Now, I was aware that confessing to missing two classes on purpose would get you big demerits from the school, which could put your social life and freedom into jeopardy (you could get "socialed," which means no talking to the opposite sex, or "campused," which means you are under house arrest, no opportunity to go off campus. Now if you "accidentally" miss a class, however, the penalties were much less serious. I know many students would simply lie to get the lesser fine, but I resolved to tell the truth and ask for understanding. BIG MISTAKE! They not only gave me the demerits, but this put me over the limit and I was immediately "socialed."

I was later informed that I cannot remain an Assistant Prayer Captain while being socialed, so I would be told to move my belongings to another room. Remember, this occurred with around 3 weeks left in the semester! They moved me to a room on the very same floor, probably 9-10 doors from my current location! All this, for missing 2 classes in order to re-type a term paper that I couldn't get to print off my computer!!

That was my last semester at Bob Jones University. The folks that give this place a good review are essentially brainwashed. For a Christian university, this was the most uncaring, legalistic drones you will ever encounter. The amount of emotional abuse that goes on at this school is mind-blowing.

My sister graduated from BJU and still thinks it is great. BJU now has a sports program, however, I distinctly remember the school telling us that BJU would NEVER have a athletic program because it would detract from the spiritual leadership they wanted. The Preacher Boys were supposed to be the leaders on campus, so they didn't want it to be a bunch of jocks. Guess what? BJU has gone through some financial trouble and saw the light. They now have invested money in starting a sports program. Money Talks.

I cannot be clear enough… BJU is a cult. No, I'm not just being dramatic. They make every effort to close their world off from outside eyes. They try to control information, when you get up, when you go to sleep, who you can talk to, the length of your sideburns, where you go to church, where you go when you go out with friends. They design the system to keep tabs on you at all time. When I was there, you had to sign a form stating where you were going and who you were going to be going with, and when you would be back .

Please go somewhere else and let Bob Jones University fade slowly into oblivion.

 
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responseI just- I cannot give a blow-by-blow response to this. This review is amazing, eye-opening. It honestly is too detailed and lengthy to be made up. I mean, as much as BJU would call you a liar and insist none of this is true, the only reason I can find from them is bitterness and spite as your motives. Really? This review reads like someone getting some poison off their chest… or maybe out of their heart. The only BJU grad I have ever met was a close-minded, petty, hateful legalistic Bible-thumper who could not tolerate any viewpoint other than his and never once admitted fault about anything, or indeed, that he was ever less than perfect. I want to stress how impressed I am by this review. Really, as an outsider who has never attended this school, I have little reason to believe you would lie at such length and in such detail. And besides, from my own observations and interactions with the 1 BJU grad I have met, and extensive research on the school- including on its wesbite and in its own student conduct handbook, I have never found anything about BJU to make me believe a review like this is anything but the truth. This is a college more militaristic than West Point, more regimented than Virginia Military Institute. What on earth IS this place? How can a college unaccredited from 1927-2016 and named Bob Jones University POSSIBLY be taken seriously? This place controls your life, and SAYS they do, more than any other institution of higher learning I have ever heard of on the planet. This is insane. The human mind rebels at the things in your review; such a college cannot exist. It cannot be true. In the land of Yale and University of Virginia, in the land of West Point and William & Mary, there is THIS PLACE? Impossible. And yet, I know it to be true. As I said I have met a graduate, whose behavior has made me believe, after reading reviews like this one, that BJU taught him MUCH of what he "knows" and how he behaves; as indeed he has told me. I cannot believe this place exists. It defies logic. But white supremacist hate and bitter, close-minded Bible-thumping runs real deep in my beloved Dixie. This place is South Carolina at its worst. I would say Christianity, too, but BJU does not represent Christianity as it really is. Not at all. If it did I'd be an atheist. I believe this review 100%. I will never attend Bob Jones University. I will do all I can to warn others away. Thank you for writing this. I doubt it was easy.
commentThe 2015-2016 Bob Jones University Student Handbook states: "Students are to avoid… false philosophical or religious assumptions". That is BJU stating they believe they have the right to forbid you from believing the "wrong" things. This college holds the right to dictate how you dress, when and if you leave campus, with who. It can put you on probation for vaping. And works of fiction depicting false philosophical or moral assumptions are considered "objectionable" and banned. BJU students are forbidden from going to movie theaters or, I have heard, attending political rallies or events for a cause the University opposes. This is not a college. It does not teach you how to live or learn anything. It is a diploma mill turning out good little "Christians" who do exactly what Bob Jones has told them to do and nothing else. This place sounds straight-up fascist.
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