Pensacola Christian College

If you are a female; pants, shorts, short skirts, and cleavage are considered sinful. 99% of non-hymn music is sinful. Shaking or holding a man's hand is sinful and will be punished - like Catholic Middle School.

If you are dead set on going...Learn make-up, hair, and/or typing before you go. Hundreds had no clue how to do it.

Be stealth! Blend in and smile! Fortunately, I always did prefer wearing dresses except when it is freezing and it does occasionally freeze there.

OK! I turned 23 when I was a freshman. The rules were a little easier on the 23 and older crowd.
Dating? Let's just say I was glad to be 23 and I was really good with make-up.
All the sermons on liberals and gays, music, dating and marriage made me wonder if they had a clue about real life issues and few of the staff wives looked happy in their marriages.25 years later and widowed; I decide to check on the campus. Still looks like an early 50's blast from the past. Oi! doesn't look like much has changed.

Alumnus Male -- Class 2000

Attending Pensacola Christian College was bar none the most soul.damaging, faith robbing, and spiritually deterimental experience in my entire existence. I have been thus far mute on this issue and am taki.g.the opportunity to express myself.. All the information on control tactics, unfair gender practices, racial discrimation, outlandish, over the top gestapo agent behaviors is all true.. I came there with.an open heart, a

willing spirit, and a sound mind, i left there.divided.and conquered, questioning God, my self, and all things Christian.. I have only recently come to.peace with seeing PCC as one representation of Christianity..and understanding God can show up in many forms and encourage and appreciate ...

I was ostracized, followed, spyed on, alienated, targeted based on rumors...Individuality is not fostered, encouraged, and was met wigh brutual opposition.. . It left me with a chasm between me and my parents (who sent me enthusiastically), the fundamental Baptist church I originated from, and me and Christ himself.. I spend 2 years there, made the Deans List and made friends.. However, all of the above, was unable to counterbalance all the wreckage done to the.person..Now that was personal, here are facts.. Unless you plan to confine.yourself and live.in PCC land...all of the "fine education" means nada in actualized physicality.. I.e. the real world.. Which you leave the institution completely.unprepared for.. In all ways.. Who actually doesnt interact with opposite sex on a daily.basis?.. This institution is.one.of the.most sexist, racist, classist, individual suppressing spaces I.have journeyed in..and most , they.purport to be representatives of the way, the truth, and the light.. and

Alumnus Male -- Class 2000

I grew up on the A Beka curriculum produced by PCC's homeschool publishing arm, so PCC was always my first (and really only) choice of school. I went in a bright-eyed, naive teenager eager to serve God and left, only one year later, a jaded adult who wanted nothing to do with their version of God.

Do not be deceived. The campus is beautiful. The rules, however, are harsh and too numerous to keep up with. (Nor are all of them written down, and new ones are introduced every week.) Anyone can accuse anyone else of just about anything, and you are then presumed guilty unless you can somehow prove your innocence. I was a goody-two-shoes who never broke rules and I was still constantly hauled in front of DC (discipline committee-oh yeah, you get the full interrogation experience), once for fainting in church (as if that were my fault). I became ill my second semester there and they were heartless. I was even told by my floor leader that something must be wrong with my walk with God or I wouldn't be sick.

And that doesn't even begin to touch the academics. I only spent a year there, so I cannot speak for everything, but as a history major I can speak rather well for the history department. PCC teaches pure, unadulterated revisionist history. World history is only barely glossed over if it somehow relates to America and otherwise is untouched. American history is rewritten so that every important leader was somehow a Christian and America has been from its birth the sole thing standing between the rest of the world and destruction. In PCC history, genocide of Native Americans is completely ignored in favor of a breathless love of the rugged pioneer, ripping a great land from the wilderness. Russia played no part in WWII. The McCarthy witch hunts were totally justified and communism is still a major threat to America. If you insist upon going to PCC for a history degree and plan to work in the field anywhere outside of PCC, you will have to unlearn and re-learn everything you thought you knew.If you are bound and determined to go to PCC, at least go prepared. The rules are infantile and intensely controlling, the academics are extremely sub-par, and any credits you earn are unlikely to transfer anywhere, even with the shiny new accreditation PCC is promoting. The best thing I ever did in my life was leave and earn my degree elsewhere. Caveat emptor!

1st Year Female -- Class 2012

Campus Aesthetics: C, Education Quality: F