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 Wisconsin.
Between community colleges, technical schools, and universities, Wisconsin has 30 public schools. All the public schools in Wisconsin have affordable tuitions, ranging from $4,000 to $11,000. The University of Wisconsin – Madison has over 35,000 students in attendance, making it the largest in the state. The tuition runs about $11,000, and the school boasts an 85% graduation rate. Public affairs, veterinary medicine, and human ecology are just some of the fields students can study here.
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Of Wisconsin’s 29 private schools, 18 are religious. With just under 10,000 students, Marquette University is the largest, and tuition for this school is about $42,000. Located in Milwaukee, this Catholic, Jesuit university offers degrees in fields like business, engineering, physical therapy, and law. Also located in Milwaukee, the state’s smallest institution, the Wisconsin School of Professional Psychology, is a private graduate school with just over 30 students, and is geared toward those earning their doctoral degree in clinical psychology. Wisconsin, like many states, also provides a loan forgiveness program to those who are working in the health care field.
When people think Wisconsin, they might immediately crave cheese. After all, the state is home to a museum dedicated to all things cheese, including the annual making of a 90-pound wheel of Swiss. But The Beaver State is also known for its more than 15,000 lakes, including Lake Superior and Lake Michigan. Prospective students looking to earn their associate, bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree will enjoy the food, landscape, and educational variety Wisconsin has to offer.
Learn more about Wisconsin’s higher education opportunities by checking out the state’s variety of colleges and universities.
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 Wisconsin. 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
$46K
Acceptance
82%
Graduation
84%
Student body
11K
Median SAT/ACT
1220/26
Marquette University’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$35K
Acceptance
72%
Graduation
70%
Student body
3K
Median SAT/ACT
1135/23
Carroll University’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$32K
Acceptance
71%
Graduation
61%
Student body
4K
Concordia University Wisconsin’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$42K
Acceptance
84%
Graduation
73%
Student body
2K
Median SAT/ACT
1155/24
St. Norbert College’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$35K
Acceptance
77%
Graduation
53%
Student body
1K
Median SAT/ACT
1055/20
Cardinal Stritch University’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$33K
Acceptance
77%
Graduation
62%
Student body
3K
Median SAT/ACT
1110/24
Carthage College’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$31K
Acceptance
78%
Graduation
43%
Student body
1K
Alverno College’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$33K
Acceptance
91%
Graduation
65%
Student body
2K
Median SAT/ACT
1080/22
Edgewood College’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$30K
Acceptance
79%
Graduation
64%
Student body
2K
Median SAT/ACT
1160/23
Viterbo University’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$40K
Acceptance
64%
Graduation
56%
Student body
<1K
Northland College ’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$29K
Acceptance
68%
Graduation
48%
Student body
1K
Median SAT/ACT
980/19
Marian University ’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$31K
Acceptance
92%
Graduation
46%
Student body
2K
Median SAT/ACT
982/19
Lakeland University’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$33K
Acceptance
53%
Graduation
51%
Student body
1K
Median SAT/ACT
935/18
Mount Mary University’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$18K
Acceptance
80%
Graduation
56%
Student body
<1K
Median SAT/ACT
1105/22
Maranatha Baptist University’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$33K
Acceptance
96%
Graduation
64%
Student body
1K
Median SAT/ACT
1155/24
Wisconsin Lutheran College’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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