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How real are college degrees from Christian universities?

I was going through resumes with HR and we were laughing about these applicants from weird colleges. Is a BA degree from a Christian college recognized or accredited by anyone but ministers?

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1. its like getting a speeding ticket from anarchists
2. I have a degree from a Christian university, Brigham Young University in Utah. It has great credibility in the local work force where I work.
3. A degree in superstition is still a degree in... superstition.
4. As real as the money that you pay to get it.
5. Personally, I wouldn't hire them. Of course, colleges and universities in the US are accredited, and competition is fierce to get in, to stay in, and to teach there. Just do some research to find out who accredits the college you're interested in.
6. Although it does depend on the institution, HR is always careful with those. Not only because the quality of the education might be dubious, you also don't want to hire someone who might upset the rest of the team by trying to preach at work.
7. Just as accredited as any other college.
8. Is this a serious question? The PRESIDENT of MIT earned her Ph.D. in Anatomy and Neuroscience from Georgetown!
9. i can take christians seriously its a lot easier to listen to a person with faith and hope than an atheist try rewording your statement
10. PHD from Regent U http://www.aclj.org/About/Default.aspx?Section=11
11. Depends on the University. Some (Notre Dame, for instance -- which *is* a christian university) are highly regarded and fully accredited. Others, like Oral Roberts University, are a joke in the academic community. I find it interesting that one poster mentioned BYU...it has nearly lost its accreditation numerous times, and while its business and law schools are well regarded, its science schools are not. Try getting a professorship or job at another university with a BYU archeology degree... Some others are flat-out diploma mills. Peace.
12. Of course they are. If anything they are recognized more than average universities. This is because Christian Colleges are usually private schools and are harder to get into, and the students of private schools usually graduate with better grades and more experience than normal schools. So yes degrees from Christian Colleges are seen as very real. Sometmes they can be seen as better than degrees from other colleges.
13. Main article: History of Harvard University [edit] Colonial Harvard was founded in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, making it the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Initially called "New College" or "the college at New Towne", the institution was renamed Harvard College on March 13, 1639. It was named after John Harvard, a young English clergyman from Southwark, Surrey, an alumnus of the University of Cambridge (after which Cambridge, Massachusetts is named), who bequeathed the College his library of four hundred books and £779 pounds sterling, which was half of his estate.[10] The charter creating the corporation of Harvard College came in 1650. In the early years, the College trained many Puritan ministers.[11] The college offered a classic academic course based on the English university model—many leaders in the colony had attended Cambridge University—but one consistent with the prevailing Puritan philosophy. The College was never affiliated with any particular denomination, but many of its earliest graduates went on to become clergymen in Congregational and Unitarian churches throughout New England.[12] An early brochure, published in 1643, justified the College's existence: "To advance Learning and perpetuate it to Posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate Ministery to the Churche/"[13] Engraving of Harvard College by Paul Revere, 1767The leading Boston divine Increase Mather served as president from 1685 to 1701. In 1708, John Leverett became the first president who was not also a clergyman, which marked a turning of the College toward intellectual independence from Puritanism.