The Best College for You?

It Depends on Your Curricular Personality Type

As anyone committed to Christian higher education will tell you, faith defines a Christian college's curriculum. But the inverse is also true: the curriculum defines the faith. In a profound sense, a curriculum is a confession—an expression of the beliefs and desires of an academic community.

Here lies a difficulty for prospective college students: they stand in line at a buffet of curricular models and philosophies, each of which presents a different vision of what it means to be educated. Even students considering only Christian schools face an array of options advanced in the name of Christian learning. On such a sea of choices, it can be hard to steer a steady course—hard not to be...