LeTourneau University Rankings by Salary Score™

Academically, it's a good technical college with an established pipeline to many well-paying, reputable companies. The overall culture, however, is depressing if you're of the creative and sociable type. The school has only really invested in its engineering, nursing, and aviation departments. While its ethnic diversity is impressive, its diversity of personalities & passions is disappointing. This is telling in the school's lack of outlets and activities in areas like humanities, Greek life, visual/performing... Read More arts, or clubs. The incentive for a more well-rounded culture simply isn't there. It's not obvious from first impressions, but prospective students should be aware of this. Being nerdy is fine, but not when it comes at the expense of diversity. To my surprise, many students & faculty insinuated that investing in the social sciences would make the school too sympathetic to humanistic worldviews. But if being "set apart" means creating a hyper-rational doctrinally oriented bubble-culture, I can't recommend this to anyone in good conscious. While officially non-denominational, the atmosphere is heavily "baptist-conservagelical." Even though I believe this position is still a valuable voice in its dialogue with other worldviews, the culture stifles the type of faith that is free-thinking and holistic. While they often denounce the humanism of secular culture, the 'true evil' is religious perennialism. It seemed the main purpose of their theology classes were to rationalize the supremacy of a spiritual imperialism that is mainly concerned with expanding it's boundaries rather than building bridges. This intellectual inhospitality reinforces sentiments of "us against the world" that is totally unnecessary and, IMO, detrimental to mental health. That being said, most people are genuinely earnest and kind.

LeTourneau University for me was an excellent experience overall. Though their guild lines and expectations of students are on the strict side, and the code of ethics is looked upon as extreme to many, for me it taught me great discipline and integrity. I always felt that my professors were were well qualified and consistently their for each student, some students struggled to follow the LETU way. This is a school for Christian individuals-period. They make no secret about that and have an almost zero policy... Read More for anyone who questions that. As a Christian I appreciated this value. Unfortunately if you are not likeminded in that regard this may not be the college for you-that is the simple truth. If you are on the fence spiritually you will make it. Getting passed the hard core rules set by administration teaches you more life lessons than a lot of classrooms. As for the education I received I will say it was great. Social life not so much. I was prepared for the real world and had all the knowledge necessary to succeed. The tuition was expensive, but in this case you get what you pay for. A solid education, confidence to believe in yourself and growth in your personal walk with God. It was a very safe and friendly environment for the most part- religion aside. I would highly recommend LETU for Christians looking for a small university with a lot of really good courses that can be applied to your career later in life. If you want wild, progressive, and partying this might not be the right choice. Students who did the best were very driven and goal oriented. Nerds to some, but they turn most people into leaders and focus a lot public service, public speaking and spiritual growth.