Religious Colleges in the United States
Out of three hundred and three “colleges” in the United States, two hundred and sixty-five are supported by religious denominations. Of these the Catholics have fifty-four, Baptists forty-eight, Methodists thirty-two, Presbyterians twenty-five, Congregational sixteen, Episcopalians sixteen, Lutheran sixteen. These institutions contain about three thousand instructors and nearly fifty thousand pupils. If each denomination would not label every school under its control a “college,” however, a liberal education in this country would signify more than it does now. A college which is one in fact, and not simply one in name, is worth more to any religious organization than a dozen of the kind so common in the United States.