Creationist Colleges

by Various Authors

by Henry M. Morris, Jack Kriege, and Ken Cumming *

Please note that the below listing is based on the information provided by these schools in 2003. Potential students will need to verify the degree to which these institutions still promote a biblical, young-earth, creationist worldview, since some schools may have changed their policies since the writing of this article. Please also note that some school names may have changed. (For example, Christian Heritage College is now San Diego Christian College.)

In response to many, many requests, we are pleased to present herewith an updated list of creationist colleges. This new list summarizes the data from a recent ICR survey of 649 Protestant Christian colleges in the United States. We are glad to report that at least 188 of these colleges now have tenets and/or faculty that support literal Biblical creationism (i.e., so-called young-earth creationism), either exclusively or almost so.

Unfortunately 425 colleges chose not to respond to the survey at all, despite several follow-up letters and phone calls. Whether this was because of reluctance to take a public stance on this key issue, we do not know, of course. Of the 224 which did respond, only 28 openly favor evolution, while nine were non-committal. Of those favoring literal creationism, 49 offer one or more science majors. The other 139 are mostly Bible colleges or seminaries. Even those that do not have science majors at least incorporate creation truth somewhere in their programs.

It must be emphasized that the listings below are based solely on the response to our survey questionnaire. No campus visits or other efforts at validation have been made. Consequently, we encourage those considering any particular college, whether for support or actual enrollment, to make direct inquiries to school officials and faculty concerning that college's position.

If there are schools that are genuinely committed to young-earth creationism but have been inadvertently omitted from the lists, we apologize and will be glad to make corrections in future printings. The same would apply to any listed schools that prefer not to be listed. A complete summary of the data, containing more detailed information than could be published in this brief article is available on request to the ICR Graduate School. It is very clear to any who have been monitoring this situation that the interest in true Biblical creationism has grown tremendously in the past half century. We believe ICR and its scientists have played a significant role in this development.

(An updated list of colleges is displayed below)

We wish to re-emphasize that this list reflects each school's response to the questionnaire. It is not our evaluation as to the school's stand. Quite frankly, some of the responses surprised us, for we are aware that some of the responding schools employ vocal faculty members with negative attitudes toward creation thinking. We are thankful that so many administrators identify their schools as creationist, but encourage individual students to investigate these issues carefully.

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List of Creationist Colleges
(Updated 02/09/2004)

This is an updated list of colleges that responded to the survey conducted by the Institute for Creation Research Graduate School. The list includes all colleges whose overall response value was greater than 3 according to the description given below.

Colleges that offer science majors in more than one area responded individually to each major. The overall value is based on the predominate view for each major. The results by specific program offered are available in a complete report.

The list shows the college name, the location, and the overall response value.

* At the time of publication, Dr. Henry M. Morris (1918-2006) was President Emeritus of ICR, Dr. Kriege was Registrar, and Dr. Cumming was Dean of the ICR Graduate School.

Cite this article: Morris, H. M., J. Kriege and K. Cumming. 2003. Creationist Colleges. Acts & Facts. 32 (11).

This article was originally published November, 2003. "Creationist Colleges", Institute for Creation Research, https://www.icr.org/article/creationist-colleges (accessed April 16, 2025).