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Heather Ward's and Rhayanna Chandler's reviews criticizing Ohio Christian University's accreditation are 100% NOT true. Ohio Christian University is regionally accredited through the Higher Learning Commission, the same agency which accredits highly rated and renowned public and private universities such as Purdue University, The University of Notre Dame, Northwestern University, Drake University, DePaul University, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Creighton University, University of Arizona, Oberlin College, Marquette University, University of Wyoming, and University of Nebraska - Lincoln. That list is only a small selection of major universities accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. Regional accreditation, which Ohio Christian University holds, is the gold standard of accreditation in the United States. To further emphasize the importance of regional accreditation, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Princeton are all regionally accredited. Ohio Christian University is rated as a top-tier university by the US News College Rankings for 2016 and is ranked as #62 for regional colleges in the Midwest. I am a proud alumnus of Ohio Christian University and I graduated in April 2016 with a BA in Business Management. I felt it necessary to present the facts about Ohio Christian University and its regional accreditation, which is NOT religious accreditation. Both Heather Ward and Rhayanna Chandler are clearly inaccurate in their reviews of the university. As a matter of record, Ohio Christian University is ALSO accredited by the Association for Biblical Higher Education simply because it is a Christian university. Being a regionally accredited university, I do not believe Heather or Rhayanna when each state they are dead in the water and credits do not transfer. The only reasons a course from Ohio Christian University would not transfer to another regionally accredited college or university are as follows: Either the receiving school feels that certain credits they took are credits from courses which are a duplicate of other courses they took or the courses do not apply toward their major at the new college and they already have enough elective credits. That is the case any time a student transfers from one regionally-accredited college to another. I personally have researched MBA programs at other colleges which all are willing to accept Ohio Christian University's credits in full from my BA in Business Management degree program. Heather and Rhayanna are correct that the university requires books to be purchased at the Tree of Life bookstore. However, I find that to be very convenient because I do not have to pay for the books out of pocket, since financial aid covers the books to begin with, and because I do not have to search for the books elsewhere because the books are automatically shipped to the student for each course. The only books which I found to be expensive are the math books which had to be purchased as brand new. For most courses the student can either lease the books or purchase used books to keep costs down. In regard to the devotional requirements, most Christian colleges require some sort of chapel attendance or that religious courses to be taken as part of their degree programs. Typically, students choose to attend a Christian college because they want to have...

I guess I will try and give an actual review verses the stupidity of most of the other reviews. EVERY University has drama and issues if you don't realize that, you haven't been out in the real world enough. The question remains: does it prepare you for the real world and what the real world demands? I wholeheartedly believe it does. I have been a student for 2 1/2 years and am going all the way to my Master's in Psychology. I have taken classes at 4 other colleges including a community college and OCU is head and shoulders above a community college and the other three colleges as well. If you can not tell the difference, the problem remains with you and how prepared you are to take actual college-level work. Not everyone is cut out for college and if you can't handle it or are not ready, by all means drop out and pursue a field that requires less education. To quote the movie Caddyshack "The world needs ditch diggers too". There is no shame in not going to college whatsoever. The only shame would be if you weren't ready to begin with and then bashed whatever university for drawing that to your attention. At OCU the instructors truly care, encourage and even demand critical thinking, insist on professional standards, and promote a Christian worldview at every oppurtunity. Remember, it is called Ohio CHRISTIAN University. If that offends you, please go elsewhere just don't expect the standards to change just for you. If you are a Christian, desire to expand your education, and can handle actual college-level classwork please seriously consider this awesome school! Even if you are not a Christian, but desire to learn more about the faith and the Bible this college is especially for you. If you feel entitled and want an easy diploma-mill level school that will hand you a reward whether you deserve it or not then please pass...

This is a terrible place for higher learning. All they want is your money. My daughter went there for 1 year before switching to another college. Most of her credits wouldn't transfer because they weren't even necessary for what she was studying. Their cost of books were way out of the norm and was intentionally made so that they had no value for classes coming up behind you. Therefore you couldn't even sell them to other students. The female students are treated much different than the male students. They even suggested that the females were there to meet their mates while the males were there to study. My daughter went on to get her Masters from the other college she attended. But she owes this college a third of her debt for just that one year. Let's not forget all the buildings that this place is adding while they over charge and under educate their students. In my opinion and from what I myself witnessed I'd say they should stick to just teaching kids to become pastors. They are also extremely right wing politically and discourage any sort of free thought. I myself am a moderate and a Christian and I raised my children the same way. We encourage free thought, charity and true Christianity. This place is nothing but greed. They paid Ben Carson an obscene amount of money to speak there while they took the money from their students. That money could have gone for much better use. As a fiscal conservative I find this college to be extremely liberal with the students tuition money. I'm not even going to mention the scandals in recent years, But I will say I'm not surprised by...