Trends Impacting Bible College

Trend #1: The Rising Cost of Education

• Fix cost of college had increased dramatically and continue to increase every year.
• The per-student cost is higher at smaller schools since the costs are distributed among fewer students.

Trend #2: Declining Enrollment

• College enrollment has historically increased during a recession, until now. The tightening of credit requirement and student loans has made it very difficult for students to secure financial aid.
• As Europe has trended, the US is experiencing a mass secularization of general thought by the younger generations, including Christians in high school.
• Relativism is in, absolutes are out.
• Students are finding it less compelling to choose more expensive, private bible college over it’s larger, less expensive, public competitors.
• While cross cultural studies and missions exist at most bible colleges, ethnic and cultural diversity in it’s student body and faculty does not.
• Every year the cultural landscape on bible college campuses looses pace with the changing diverse cultural landscape of society, rendering bible college more irrelevant and outdated in the minds of students.

Partner With Dream Of Destiny

In addition to working with bible colleges to diversify faculty and staff, we desire to help make attending bible college viable for more students who represent ethnically diverse backgrounds.

Dream Of Destiny is committed to doing it’s part in reversing these trends, but we need your help.

Our first goal is to help at least 250 students of diversity attend bible college or seminary by 2011. Will you help us reach this goal?