How to Help Your Child Choose a College, Part 3

The variety of Christian approaches to higher education

So far in this series on how parents and other adults can help high schoolers choose a college, I’ve tried to share widely applicable advice: categories of colleges and universities, and criteria often used to rank them; motivations for going to college and “mental models” for making sense of the experience. But given that the book I’m hoping to write is meant to be an advice guide for Christian families in particular, I’d like to close with a post aimed at the intersection of Christian faith and higher education.

Of course, I’d hope that everything I’ve written before is relevant to more religious families. For example, I suspect that many of those readers might especially resonate with last week’s notion of college as a means of personal transformation.

But as we continue to try to make higher ed less mysterious, I do think I ought to add one more layer of complexity, particular to Christian students and their families. Namely, that there is no single Christian approach to higher education.