For prospective college students looking for schools that align with their Christian faith and demonstrate academic excellence, here are the best Christian colleges and universities in Kansas.
Beyond the 23 community and technical colleges, Kansas also has nine public universities, the largest being the University of Kansas (KU) with over 28,000 students. The school’s main campus is located in Lawrence, Kansas, but there are four other locations where students can attend KU classes: Overland Park, Kansas City, Wichita, and Salina. Kansas is also home to 22 private higher education institutions, with tuition ranging from $7,000 to $31,000.
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In addition, students can choose from one of 18 religiously affiliated schools, including Newman University, Wichita — a Catholic liberal arts university serving the state’s largest private school student population at just over 2,000. Just under the national tuition average at $9,230, Kansas is also an affordable state in which to earn your degree. The state awards associate, bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in common fields of study, like economics, nursing, business, and education. Specialized degrees include aerospace engineering at the University of Kansas and agribusiness from Kansas State University. Those in the medical and health fields can check out loan forgiveness programs, such as the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program, which awards up to $50,000, tax free, for those who serve two years at an approved site.
Arguably, it was the 1939 cinema classic, The Wizard of Oz, that put Kansas on the map. But The Sunflower State is also known for its mouth-watering barbecue, open plains, and vast sunflower fields. Prospective students can also choose from 50 colleges and universities across this Midwestern state.
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The following list of the best Christian schools consists entirely of colleges and universities that offer four-year undergraduate degrees. We’ve identified 15 Christian colleges in Kansas. In order to be included in this ranking list of best Christian colleges and universities, a school must self-identify as Christian, be fully accredited, and offer a broad range of bachelor degree programs.
The people affiliated with a school are ultimately what make it great! If you are serious about finding the best colleges and universities for a bachelor’s degree, you should be asking where the most influential professors are teaching and whether their graduates are themselves advancing the school’s reputation for academic excellence in their fields of study.
Most ranking sites rely on an opaque combination of reputation surveys and arbitrary performance metrics. Concentrated Influence provides a ranking that is freer from bias, insulated from manipulation, and reflective of real-world educational outcomes.
To rank the influence of schools, we first determine the influence of scholars and professionals based on the number of citations and publications they have had over the past 10 years. In addition to publications and citations, we consider the web links to and from these sources, and the page views of those sources. We then match the influential people to their alma maters and institutions of employment, so that their influence is attributed to those schools. Our machine-learning Influence Ranking algorithm produces a numerical score of academic achievements, merits, and citations across Wikipedia, wikidata, Crossref, Semantic Scholar and an ever-growing body of data. If you are interested in exploring how and why we rank by influence, explore our methodology in more depth.
Tuition + fees
$31K
Acceptance
58%
Graduation
42%
Student body
2K
Median SAT/ACT
1050/22
Friends University’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$32K
Acceptance
93%
Graduation
62%
Student body
2K
Median SAT/ACT
1085/22
Baker University’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$37K
Acceptance
70%
Graduation
37%
Student body
<1K
Median SAT/ACT
975/19
Ottawa University’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$33K
Acceptance
97%
Graduation
65%
Student body
2K
Median SAT/ACT
1185/24
Benedictine College’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$31K
Acceptance
62%
Graduation
47%
Student body
<1K
Median SAT/ACT
1041/21
Kansas Wesleyan University’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$35K
Acceptance
56%
Graduation
38%
Student body
1K
Median SAT/ACT
995/21
Southwestern College ’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$28K
Graduation
63%
Student body
<1K
Hesston College’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$31K
Acceptance
61%
Graduation
44%
Student body
<1K
Median SAT/ACT
1030/21
Bethel College ’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$33K
Acceptance
46%
Graduation
42%
Student body
<1K
Median SAT/ACT
1045/19
Tabor College ’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$34K
Acceptance
64%
Graduation
48%
Student body
2K
MidAmerica Nazarene University’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$34K
Acceptance
83%
Graduation
47%
Student body
2K
Median SAT/ACT
1087/21
Newman University, Wichita’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$9K
Graduation
13%
Student body
<1K
Donnelly College’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$32K
Acceptance
52%
Graduation
38%
Student body
<1K
Median SAT/ACT
1050/21
McPherson College’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$31K
Acceptance
68%
Graduation
34%
Student body
<1K
Bethany College ’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$32K
Acceptance
60%
Graduation
56%
Student body
1K
Median SAT/ACT
1045/20
University of Saint Mary’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$20K
Graduation
23%
Student body
<1K
Central Christian College of Kansas’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Many of our 2022 undergraduate focused rankings look considerably different than 2021. That’s because we took a fundamentally different apporach. For 2021 we utiulized our Concentrated Influence algorithm, designed to take away the size advantage larger schools have when we rank their faculty and alumni’s academic influence. Concentrated influence highlights smaller schools that are proportionally as successful as larger universities at cultivating influential alumni and faculty.
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