Originally Posted by
howardlander
I'm not sure I'd call Liberty a reputable university. My daughter was considering attending Randolph College, a small liberal arts school that is also in Lynchburg. I was attending a prospective parent event with the University President (I think) and a fair amount of other parents. One of the parents asked something like "This is a small school, what if my child wants to take a class that isn't offered here?". The President answered by saying that Randolph had cooperative agreements with some of the other local colleges and proceeded to discuss the strengths and weakness of each of them. I think he mentioned Sweet Briar, University of Lynchburg and 1 or 2 others that are fairly close. The parent followed up by asking about Liberty: the college President simply answered "No". That tells you what at least one of their local peers thinks about Liberty.
I'm not going to debate reputation, but there is an undergraduate enrollment of over 47,000 students that were ok in making their choice. At the very least, and pertinent to the initial discussion, it's very hard not to call that a modern day success story for any school that was founded only 50 years ago.
Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."