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2010 Edition

The 10+ Things You Should KnowAbout Accredited Christian BibleColleges & Universities

How to Save Time and Money & Avoid Dangerous MistakesWhen Choosing A School

“Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellers thereis safety”. Proverbs (ch. XI, v. 14)

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BACKGROUND

Bible colleges are Christian colleges that offer a limited array of degree programs to prepare students for Christian ministry or for graduate studies in religion. Accreditation should be a primary concern forstudents who want to attend a bible college. It is best to choose a bible college that is regionallyaccredited so that the degree that you receive will be recognized by graduate schools or potentialemployers such as churches.Accredited Bible colleges offer students academic degree programs in both the Old Testament and theNew Testament, giving students the necessary textual training to become ministers, religious communalleaders and Christian educators in the United States. While most accredited Bible colleges provide solelyon-campus learning opportunities, a handful of schools offer online degrees as well.With the proliferation of online education

,there has also been a concomitant increase in the number of online Christian colleges, which offer various liberal arts degrees in classes taught with a Christianemphasis. While many of these schools are online counterparts to real-world universities, some existsolely online. This list was compiled using schools' accreditation, popularity, reputation and ranking byother organizations.

CHOOSE THE RIGHT ACCREDITED SCHOOL

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AVOID THESE DANGEROUS PITFALLS

Sadly, there are people who profess to

be good Christians and teach the word of God but are “wolves insheep’s clothing”. In fact, according to one authoritative study done by a l

eading online resource, thereare hundreds of colleges and universities in the world that do not have recognized accreditation. Theyrange from totally fraudulent degree mills run by ex-convicts who sell worthless degrees to anyonewilling to pay, to major new academic endeavors, well-funded and run by experienced educators of good reputation, and extremely likely to become properly accredited before too long.

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2) Unaccredited Schools Offer Unsuccessful Shortcuts

In almost every instance, the unaccredited schools cost less, and offer a faster path to a degree, withmore flexibility. It is a tempting consideration, and a common dilemma for many people in search of aschool. As a result, this is probably the most common question we get:

3) Should You pursue an unaccredited degree?

Since we cannot know each questioner's situation and needs, we typically reply by saying, "If you areabsolutely confident that an unaccredited degree will meet your current and your predictable futureneeds, then it might well be appropriate to pursue such a degree."Note: For the purpose of the following discussion, we include schools with accreditation claimed froman unrecognized accreditor as equivalent to unaccredited, for that is how such schools are almostcertain to be treated by evaluators and decision makers.

4) Should You get an accredited or an unaccredited degree?

The simplest answer is that you can rarely go wrong with a properly accredited degree. We do hear froma moderate number of people who have made good use of an unaccredited (but totally legitimate)degree, but we hear from many more who have had significant problems with such degrees, in terms of acceptance by employers, admission to other schools, or simply bad publicity.

5) Will an unaccredited degree be accepted as legitimate?

Acceptance is very low in the academic world and the government world, though somewhat higher inthe business world. One large and decent unaccredited school, in operation for a quarter century, canonly point to a dozen instances in which their degrees were accepted by other schools, most of those ona case by case basis. Some companies have no clear policy with regard to accreditation, and indeed maynot even understand the concept. Such was the case with the head of human resources for one of theten largest companies on the planet, who told us of her astonishment at learning there wereunaccredited schools and fake accrediting agencies.

6) Can anyone benefit from an unaccredited degree?

The unaccredited option may work for people who really don't need a degree, but rather want one,either for self satisfaction ("validating my life's work" is a phrase we hear often), or to give themselves amarketing edge. One large subset of satisfied unaccredited degree-users, for instance, are therapists,who typically need only a Master's degree for their state license. But they feel that if they have a PhD,and use that title in their advertising, they will have an edge over competitors without the doctorate.The same is the case with owners or executives of small businesses. A real estate agent with an MBA ora business planner with a doctorate in finance, may get more clients because of the higher degree, andindeed may have additional useful knowledge.