Any favorite small town Christian Colleges.   My dd is interested in Liberty and Toccoa but they are SO far away.  Can you recommend any in the west to check out?  She want to major in music-worship ministry.

http://www.christiancollegementor.org/AboutMentor/naccap.asp might help with the process.

I went to Pepperdine University, which, while being in the (extreme) west, is hardly small town!  

Keep in mind, though, that small town often equates to not having high caliber faculty.  So she might want to look at mid-size institutions and use other online tools to compare offerings.  

Is staying in the west her idea or yours?  I ask because it can be a healthy experience to explore new parts of the country, and it's part of the horizons-broadening experience that college brings.

Well....I can recommend Toccoa....Kara graduates this coming spring but is currently a student here.  My son works on campus and I am currently living with him in his apartment which is on campus.  So....there are people here that she "knows".  *smile*  But truly, it is a very good college.

btw...their music department is awesome!  My son graduated from their music department.  Part of his tuition was paid by his traveling with their music team in the summer singing around the country.  Dr. Council is the head of the department--he also is the music director at our church.  Many of his students play their instruments for our worship services.  Our church is a great church home-I've fallen in love with it!  Most years their college choir sings at Carnegie Hall.  

She did visit Toccoa  last summer and we have family in Ga (not close to Toccoa).   She doesn't have the $$ to visit Liberty or any other college far away.  I don't think she should pick a college without actually visiting it so I was wondering if there were closer options- where she could  actually visit the college  before making a choice  AND come home on breaks.  She gets advertising everyday from colleges and of course it makes them all look great.                                    Anyplace, will be different from the desert!   I guess I didn't mean small town -just not a big university.

That's a great website. Thanks

For a music major I would suggest checking out Greenville College in Greenville, IL (near St. Louis, MO) and Belmont Univ in Nashville.    My son will graduate from GC in December.  He started out as a music performance major, switched to digital media/audio recording.  PM me if you would like to know more about it.

No recommendations , but I live in VA, and you may want to let her know that Liberty is hardly a small town college. It is actually rather big. If she wants small/small town, with a really good music ministry dept, my ds attends a very small (300 students) Bible college in southern West Virginia called Appalachian Bible College.
   The only good christian college I know of on the west coast is Masters College in CA.....but it is not in a small town, and not very small.

My dd loves going to Alpine Bible Camp that is a ministry of Appalachian Bible College.  Some friends from where we used to live have a son attending there and he is on the soccer team.

Is that a Kevin Bacon?

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My dd loves going to Alpine Bible Camp that is a ministry of Appalachian Bible College.  Some friends from where we used to live have a son attending there and he is on the soccer team.

Is that a Kevin Bacon?

More of a KB than you realize. My son was a counselor at alpine, My dd and 12 of her friends went there for camp this year (it was her third year going to camp there), and my son played on their soccer team and is probably friends with your friends son. What is his name? For that matter what week did your dd go to camp, my ultra extrovert dd may even know her.

DD attended Jr. camp in 2005 and 2006 and Teen Camp in 2007 and 2008. Since this is a public forum, I'll PM you the names.

I almost applied to Thomas Aquinas College, which is in California. It's a Great Books school, though, and doesn't have music ministry. Still, it looks interesting!

Another good one--but in the midwest--is St. Olaf College. GREAT music program! Top notch.

This is the one here that everyone talks about. I have not heard anything negative. They have a small satellite campus/office here in Bellingham. I think the Bellingham one is geared more toward adults who need to finish up their degree.
This is just across the border in Canada.
http://www.twu.ca/