Abilene Christian University Rankings by Salary Score™

If only I would have know that ACU is about cookie-cutting students to fit a certain mold, I would have never attended or accepted their money. The capstone course designed for the COBA accounting programs is a joke. The senior capstone courses are supposedly designed to incorporate what a student has learned through their degree program. However, for accounting students this is not the case. Accounting students are required to complete a Strategic Management class for their capstone that has absolutely nothing... Read More to do with accounting. Sure it should be included in the core curriculum, I believe, but to say that this is inclusive of what we have learned as accounting students is far from reality. So if your looking for an account degree and the education to back it up, I would recommend a state school as these private so-called "Christian" colleges cannot provide the education or resources that one will need to move into the workforce. If you have the ability to self-teach then save yourself the money, stress, and time and grab some Dummies books from our local bookstore and you will have the equivalent education. Additionally, if you are a non-traditional student save yourself and find a university that has a decent population of non-traditions, because ACU's faculty, staff, and traditional student population considers them as ghosts. Their degree programs are like it is the 1990's, they are way behind the trends within many industries, and they have already shut own their IT program (who does that in a technology driven world).

Because the GERs for this school require so many religious study type classes (most of which you are "encouraged" to take in your first two years) it is very hard to transfer those credits to another school who will take them seriously. They all transferred as electives. Even my Religious Writing class, which ACU classified as an LA credit was only accepted as an Elective. The teachers are unnecessarily hard and will lower your grade if you disagree with their opinion or religion. Some of them take pride in... Read More the percentage of students who fail. (Specifically one Bible teacher of mine bragged about it on the first day of class.) The instruction varies from Prof to Prof, however no one looked surprised when one teacher took a writing sample and, instead of grading it so it could be rewritten better, wrote notes about how rough the experience must have been and how I will be in her prayers. Also, their views on Chapel are outdated and misogynistic. As are their views of curfew, alcohol, and many other things. It's extremely overpriced. There is little to no financial aid offered unless you are planning to become a preacher, in which case I suppose they figure you won't make much money anyway, so couldn't pay back loans. I strongly feel I wasted years of my life stressing about that school. I also know that I could have gotten a job right out of high school that would have paid the same as the one I got after I finished. There is no actual guidance on how to decide what you want to do with your life, and then figure out what degree will most likely help you. They are just happy to take your money.