As the number of Christian colleges drifting from their missions continues to increase, are there many options left for conservative Christian students? The National Review published an article by Jack Fowler last weekend, Higher Ed. Higher Power, which highlights PHC and three other Christian colleges as excellent and affordable while remaining faithful to their Christian missions.
On PHC's unwavering adherence to its biblical worldview, he writes:
PHC doesn’t mince words regarding its bedrock: All students, faculty (highly regarded), and staff must sign a statement of faith holding that there is a triune God, that Jesus, "born of a virgin, is God come in the flesh," and that the Bible is "inerrant" and "the only infallible and sufficient authority for faith and Christian living." As for Satan, he "exists as a personal, malevolent being who acts as tempter and accuser, for whom Hell, the place of eternal punishment, was prepared, where all who die outside of Christ shall be confined in conscious torment for eternity."
On PHC's educational philosophy of High Academic Rigor, Fowler adds,
Education is as serious as faith: PHC boasts a rigorous program—a classical liberal-arts education trivium. ... all taught from an "unwavering Christian worldview"—that it says is competitive with curricula at the Ivies and ensures that graduates will "possess a profound appreciation for our country and the liberty it provides."
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On PHC's affordable tuition, Fowler writes:
All this in 2024–25 for just $37,800. That’s little more than Virginia’s public universities. And while private-school tuition has risen on average nearly 36 percent since 2015, PHC has kept its rate of increase to a mere 1.7 percent.
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Jack Fowler, "Higher Ed, Higher Power," The National Review, August 2024. Available here.
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Patrick Henry College exists to glorify God by challenging the status quo in higher education, lifting high both faith and reason within a rigorous academic environment; thereby preserving for posterity the ideals behind the "noble experiment in ordered liberty" that is the foundation of America.
