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 North Carolina.
Among these schools are over 60 public colleges and universities, including the state’s largest school, North Carolina State University, which serves almost 30,000 students. Tuition costs average about $9,000, just below the national average, and students also have the option to enroll in over 1,000 online courses. Another notable public school is the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which is one of the country’s oldest universities.
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The 25,000 students who attend UNC will walk the same halls as Francis Collins, Thomas Wolfe, and former president James K. Polk. North Carolina’s private schools have also made a name for themselves, including the well-known Duke University located in Durham. Here, students can earn degrees in some of the top programs, like nursing, political science, and business. Additionally, students can attend one of the many small schools which serve less than 5,000 students, like Campbell University in Buies Creek, or a religiously affiliated school, like Mid-Atlantic Christian University in Elizabeth City.
From its coastal beaches to its lush forests, it’s no wonder the Wright Brothers dreamed of taking flight over North Carolina. This state is rich with history, scenic views, and famous people who once called it home, like John Coltrane and Nicholas Sparks. Students hoping to earn their associate, bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree also have the option of choosing from over 100 schools in the Tar Heel State.
Whether you prefer ocean views or wooded forests, North Carolina has something for everyone. Discover more about the state’s higher learning options.
The following list of the best Christian schools consists entirely of colleges and universities that offer four-year undergraduate degrees. We’ve identified 24 Christian colleges in North Carolina. 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
$60K
Acceptance
8%
Graduation
96%
Student body
15K
Median SAT/ACT
1525/34
Duke University’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$55K
Acceptance
20%
Graduation
93%
Student body
2K
Median SAT/ACT
1397/31
Davidson College’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$38K
Acceptance
81%
Graduation
56%
Student body
4K
Median SAT/ACT
1130/22
Campbell University’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$40K
Acceptance
77%
Graduation
69%
Student body
5K
Median SAT/ACT
1175/25
High Point University’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$16K
Acceptance
71%
Graduation
19%
Student body
1K
Shaw University’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$39K
Acceptance
68%
Graduation
57%
Student body
2K
Median SAT/ACT
1140/24
Queens University of Charlotte’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$41K
Acceptance
78%
Graduation
49%
Student body
2K
Median SAT/ACT
1070/20
Guilford College’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$31K
Acceptance
85%
Graduation
66%
Student body
<1K
Median SAT/ACT
1025/19
Salem College’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$19K
Acceptance
73%
Graduation
29%
Student body
<1K
Bennett College’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$19K
Acceptance
80%
Graduation
46%
Student body
1K
Median SAT/ACT
1095/22
Belmont Abbey College’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$19K
Acceptance
78%
Graduation
34%
Student body
<1K
Median SAT/ACT
1000/18
Greensboro College’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$23K
Acceptance
62%
Graduation
46%
Student body
2K
Median SAT/ACT
1000/19
University of Mount Olive’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$18K
Acceptance
69%
Graduation
28%
Student body
1K
Median SAT/ACT
845/15
Livingstone College’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$29K
Acceptance
71%
Graduation
34%
Student body
<1K
Median SAT/ACT
1036/20
Montreat College’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$33K
Acceptance
48%
Graduation
31%
Student body
2K
Median SAT/ACT
965/17
North Carolina Wesleyan College’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$33K
Acceptance
42%
Graduation
52%
Student body
1K
Median SAT/ACT
1035/20
Barton College’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$30K
Acceptance
45%
Graduation
39%
Student body
<1K
Brevard College’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$32K
Acceptance
76%
Graduation
43%
Student body
1K
Median SAT/ACT
1027/19
Pfeiffer University’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$32K
Acceptance
61%
Graduation
38%
Student body
<1K
Median SAT/ACT
1030/20
William Peace University’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$32K
Acceptance
78%
Graduation
56%
Student body
3K
Median SAT/ACT
1075/21
Gardner–Webb University’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$29K
Acceptance
61%
Graduation
33%
Student body
<1K
Median SAT/ACT
965/19
St. Andrews University ’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$37K
Acceptance
76%
Graduation
39%
Student body
2K
Median SAT/ACT
1045/19
Methodist University’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$42K
Acceptance
77%
Graduation
45%
Student body
3K
Median SAT/ACT
1070/21
Lenoir–Rhyne University’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$26K
Acceptance
67%
Graduation
31%
Student body
1K
Median SAT/ACT
880/15
Chowan University’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$28K
Acceptance
73%
Graduation
44%
Student body
<1K
Lees–McRae College’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$17K
Acceptance
67%
Graduation
19%
Student body
<1K
Median SAT/ACT
840/15
St. Augustine's University ’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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