Reviews of California Baptist University (College)

Jacqueline Ramos

You have a lot of racist students on your campus. My daughter was looking to attend your fine institute, but I should take my hard earned money elsewhere, shame on you, God or Jesus did not teach hate.

Vivien Banuelos

Love this school. I got my undergraduate degree here. Now im in graduate school here because I just love this school so much.

Joanne Miley

This is an extraordinary campus, filled with the Grace of God and the beauty of His creations

Victor Cruz

I'm a graduate from Cal Baptist, the instructors are amazing and the students are top of the top.

Travis Jasmine

School doesn’t denounce racism or teach students Christ like behaviors

Brendan Phares

Really happy all these keyboard warriors are so upset and offended at everything that occurs under the sun to find reasons not to come to CBU. The school is much better off without a bunch of bleating hearts campaigning for social justice for problems that don't even exist on campus. This truly works out in everyone's interest!

Patty Keller

After contacting the school, and not getting a satisfactory answer. Haley Parea and Savannah Sugg threw a soda on the two men while quietly protesting. I sincerely hope they have been dropped from the school as who would want their children attending a higher education with these morons who don't seem to understand 'Freedom' that those two men where exercising. The very Hypocrisy that they can protest by throwing a drink at those that protest in peace is beyond belief. This shall following them for a long time and I hope they understand what they did was and will not be acceptable. They should hold a press conference and apologies to those two Lakers Fans for their indiscretion.

Meghann Crusinberry

This school is a joke. Not only are the academics subpar, they are completely incompetent in the student and financial services department; very unhelpful. Also, for being a "Christian" University they sure do not act like it. I was very religious when I began at CBU, and after a year I was DONE. They make it seem like a cult and their "morals" are not my idea of christianity. I was threatened with expulsion on numerous occasions after a roommate left the school and told them I was Bipolar and had Schizophrenia. Both of which being untrue. The administration confronted me and said that if they found out I was lying, they would expel me for being a "danger to their community." Another time I was threatened was when I was confronted, again by administration, about whether or not a good friend and roommate was gay. I informed them that we did not discuss things like that to which they responded with "well if we find out you are lying, we will expel you for hiding it." Ok? Whatever happened to love and acceptance? But ok. The teachers are ok, nothing to write home about. I ended up graduating in 3 years just to get out. I was going to transfer to UNLV, but of my 90 units, only 12 transferred. So if you are looking to transfer, unless it is another Christian university like BIOLA or Azusa, you are stuck. Do not go here. A waste of time and money.

Sarah Willis

Excellent school. Worth every penny.

Chris of the internet

CBU is an amazing school with an awesome community. After spending time on the campus I am impressed with so many of the people there that drive it's amazing culture.

Bhavesh Pancholi

It is the best campus in baptist. Among all southern university. Its education is good and the services also provided.

Mariah Getty

I will start off by saying that I have gone tow THREE other universities throughout obtaining an associates degree and working towards my bachelors. I found CBU through US News Best Online lists in which they are listed in the best for online education (among other lists). When I first started in Spring of 2015, it was so great. When I applied I got a call from THEM. That was the moment I decided that this was the school for me. That my counselor called me and gave me more information about the new Public Health degree program and welcomed my interest instead of me having to track someone down to talk to on my own. My guidance counselor helped me through the process of getting all my necessary paperwork to get started that semester and it all happened very quickly! The only thing that bothered me was there online website, insideCBU was very confusing to use. But since I have been going to this school (online) they have changed and updated many things online and the website is much more friendly and easy to use. I have had a couple things that I needed help with in my semesters since (I've gone to school through the summer as well), and the registrar and student office have always been EXTREMELY helpful, patient, understanding, and professional. I will never regret going to this school and obtaining my BS in Public Health online with them. I expect to graduate around this time next year and I have nothing but great things to say about the program and the faculty that I have had the opportunity to work with thus far.

Ryan Nelson

CBU is an amazing school that stresses the morals of acceptance, equality, and love. There was an event that occurred a few days ago involving two women that happened to go to CBU. CBU, though, had nothing to do with the event. These were two women who committed a hate crime, but their actions don't represent CBU's core message or teachings or the rest of its student body. I am currently enrolled at CBU, and can assure everybody that this is a loving school that accepts and loves people of ALL races and backgrounds. Diversity is what makes college so great, and CBU understands that. Moreover, CBU does many events throughout the year to help its community and people across the world. Many students and faculty from the university go out to many different countries, including the United States, and help the community and love on the people there. These people come from all different ethnicities, backgrounds, and religions, and we have consistently displayed CBU's core message to these people which is that of love and Christ's love for ALL people. The actions of two individuals should not be attributed to every student and faculty member at this university. This is a great university.

Amanda Aubuchon

If I could give this university zero stars, I would. This was the worst 6 months of my life. President Ellis is a jerk and the professors aren't so great either. Don't even get me started on the financial aid department, a monkey could do a better job than they do. The only person I had a good experience with at CBU was Katelyn in the admissions department. Anyone considering this school, please beware, make sure to really do your research before committing.

Justin

Great atmosphere and a good education but it is expensive.

Greg Schaffer

I was impressed with the school from facility to students. Campus is amazing. Proud my son is now attending.

Sheila Daviner

Love to enroll here, I love the Mission Hotel Inn, too....

laura Leon

This school has been such a blessing to go to. If you are currently reading bad reviews it is because of an incident that did not occur on campus that two girls were involved with. It was completely unrelated to the school. Unfortunately people think they should review the school badly because of poor choices two students made. This school is amazing. Visit the campus and you will see that. Before this incident happened the school had a rating of 4.7/5 which is an accurate representation of their ratings.

Your GreatGrandfather

it has such amazing security, infact it is so safe that there is a camera in my shower.

Michael D. Bear

Okay, so I went to this school originally considering a nursing degree. It's hard to have many nice things to say about this school.. The school looks nice, but the neighborhood area is crap. You have to drive kinda far to see or do anything nice. It's hardly in Riverside, CA. Feel more like Norco, armpit of California. They put most of their students in cheap housing. Much of it was temporary when I was there. Other housing was old folks homes. Weird cheap, and kinda gross. The major feature of this school is this: They want your money. That's all. It's nothing spectacular in any way, and based on the price, it's a really bad deal. They "award" small scholarships to practically any student for any reason. They try to bring in a bunch of students through their music school. A music degree is NOT WORTH 100k- 150k of debt. And please remember folks, if everybody gets a scholarship, it's not actually a scholarship. THINK about it.. They just want your attention and your money. ALSO, Please be aware they will be raising the tuition on you every year, by lots of money! If you start at 30-35k, You will probably end at 40-45k annually. It's probably costing something around or over 40 or more thousand per year now. And YOU WILL pay more than you think by the end of the year. It's a Christian school, which is fine if you're a Christian. They are relatively intolerant conservatives though. Very serious/ oppressive Christian all over the place. Many of the students are sheltered, and having moved on to a regular university, I can tell you it doesn't represent the real world experience, or normal people, for the most part. Regarding this: Don't bother going here unless you're a rich serious sheltered Christian. If that's what you value, then maybe you'll like this place. Some of the people are fairly friendly, and the food in the cafeteria was good WHEN I was there. That more than a year ago. Some of the teachers were alright as well. I mostly took science classes, for reference. In summary, if you're not a young Christian who has no desire for real-world experience,then don't go here. The price is so not worth it! It's an institution for profit! Go to your local community college and earn entrance to a great University! Even Ivy league schools are looking to replace young dropouts with students that did well in their community colleges! It's just not worth it. If you're a thinking person, you'll start hating this school not long after you get there. NOT WORTH IT

Sally Moritz

My daughters attend CBU. Wonderful and beautiful college. They wouldn't want to be anywhere else. Though it's an older community , there's lots of history there , and people are very nice and it's very clean.

Jesse Phillips

A great place to be brainwashed with Christian fairy tales.

M M

A rapidly growing Christian university that cares for the academic development and spiritual well being of young adults. The campus is nicely landscaped and an oasis in Riverside. Do try their locally famous Sunday Brunch after church one day, you won’t regret it!

Ashyah Hooks

Cool

josephine favis

Going hereeee love it heeere

Lisa Just Me

Friendly. Large beautiful campus. Very nice.

Randall Ceniceros

We are excited to receive the Dean's Scholarship. Bloomington High student Carissa Ceniceros is among the few to have consecutive honor since kindergarten. Bruin pride is transferred to CBU.

Rochelle McRyans

I pray to Jesus, that I get accepted to this school. I mean I love the campus, and CBU is the greatest school in the state of California. <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Isaura Moran

Racist students

Gabriel Lara

I loved all 4 years at this school! As a freshman, I lived in the dorms and met my group of closest friends that I still hang out with to this day. I loved the food and had to be careful with dessert in the cafeteria otherwise I would have packed on the calories. The school does a great job of setting up events that target every student and gives great deals for other off-campus events like cheap Lakers tickets, cheap tickets to theme parks, and other giveaways. I am Mexican and I have never once felt like I was discriminated against at this school, if anything there are plenty of people at this school who make an effort to talk about racial injustices among students. As far as the incident in Ontario, I just want to say that you can find that level of ingorance at any university and even more so outside of that setting. Two girls made a stupid decision to throw a drink on a guy and they happened to be CBU students. If I’m being real here, CBU does not turn many people away when it comes to the application process, so any person who has higher than a 2.5 GPA will most likely get in. CBU does not necessarily focus on whether you are a Christian or not because they’d rather have you here at this school than at a school where the chance of hearing the gospel is much lower. Now back to the point, CBU is honestly such a great school and if you’ve ever visited, you notice right away that the atmosphere is one that you can’t find in many other places. People treat you with love, respect, understanding, and kindness. CBU is a school that truly looks to serve the students in any way possible and that’s the truth. Don’t let others who are are upset about what happened in Ontario tear down the idea of coming to this school because you will definitely see that the number of students who will treat you with love and respect far outweighs the ones who would pour a drink on you for sitting during the national anthem. Christian or not, CBU will welcome you with open arms regardless of ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, gender, etc..

Joshua Henson

Beautiful campus and nice surrounding neighborhoods

Denise Achim

My brother goes to this school and I've visited here because of him and it is an AWESOME school! Whenever he talks to the family he cant express how much he loves this place (and I can see why). He actually told me that he feels bad for anyone who doesn't go to this college;)...I am praying that I am able to attend next year :D

molly hoyt

This school falsely advertises as accepting veteran benefits when they do not. They told me they would and after about a year when I was already enrolled in classes they told me that they do not and tried to push loans on me. Every time I ask why they falsely advertise and put me through so much they say "we cannot comment on that." I fought for 11 months to try to start school here but was continuously put down for my prior service.

Pete A

These people are unorganized and only care about your money. After sending my transcripts and being promised a 2 year degree completion program by Dr Donald dean of engineering I payed 13,000 dollars!!!! for one semester and then was told by the dean that I would need three years to complete my degree. the man is fake. After having a meeting with the Dr. Tracy Ward who gave me a blank stare the entire meeting I decided to go elsewhere.The library which is very small and always full of loud student.

LaMonte Reed

I'm a Christian and have learned we are ambassadors of Christ. Since we are representitives we represent Christ in our schools, jobs, careers and everything we do. It's obvious by these student commments that the school don't teach these biblical principles. These girls are examples of this college and the college has failed to denounce their behavior to stand against racisim, aggressive and unchristian behavior. This is 2017 Christian Private school not a secular school. It's Shameful and deploreable that these individuals are not held accountable for there behavior. This is what appears to be taught at this school. Because it did happen on campus it's ok? These girls had not shame but rather arrogant, proud and egregiously offensive. The did it out in the open recorded it for the world to see. The college need to take proper actions immediately.

Jake Roque

CBU is pretty rad, and I want to respond to what I've seen in a couple reviews here. The first of which is people saying the location in Riverside sucks. I'll admit Riverside is not super tight, but there is the mission inn and a drive in movie theater and a few other things which are pretty cool within a few minutes of campus. The best part of Riverside is it's less than an hour from the beach, an hour from the mountains, and hour from LA and 45 minutes from a few theme parks. So if you have a car and aren't super lazy, your weekends should be fun. And there's always fun stuff going on campus too, (dive in movie nights at the pool, intramural and NCAA sports games, concerts, carnivals etc.) so if you have a good attitude you can have fun hanging out on campus. People are saying CBU wants your money. Of course they do, so does every other university that is in business. However CBU will really work with you to help you afford the school. Get good grades, maybe go out for a sports team or the music department and you'll get even more money. You have to work for it though, they don't give out serious amounts of money to anyone. If your parents are in ministry (pastor/missionary/work full time at a church) you're in luck too cuz they have scholarships for that too. It's a Christian school... Yep. I wouldn't say intolerant though. You will be taught what they believe to be Christian values and you can only expect that. There's like 7,000 students too so I'm sure there are rude intolerant ones there too. I think you will find rude/intolerant people no matter where you go but it most definitely is not the essence of the student body. CBU has a uniquely welcoming and loving community, and that's something I've heard from Christians and non-Christians alike at the school. Both are welcome to come but both also are required to go to chapel and follow the rules. I don't agree with all the rules but most of them are a pretty reasonable balance of trying to give freedom to students and adhere to Christian principles (coming from a non-conservative Christian background). That's part of making the decision to go to a Christian university, and realistically it's probably what's best for you anyways. If anyone has anything bad to say about the food I don't know what world famous chef you had cooking for you your entire life before here. The caf has killer variety, Chik-fil-a is freaking Chik-fil-a, Wandas has great breakfast and the best steak quesadillas, and El-Monte is as good as Chipotle. CBU does give real world experience. I know as a business major there are some awesome professors that are all about real world experience. Dr. Weniger and Alderson are a couple that come to mind. You get out what you put into your classes and almost every single professor at the school is very open to spending time with you helping you out with homework or just life. Academics are pretty top tier, but professors do come and go and though most are great, some are much better than others, so do a little time looking round rate my professor if you want the best ones. CBU is great. Sure there are other universities that are great too (not to many that compare that are in Southern California though) but CBU is a well rounded school academically, socially and spiritually. No school/student body is perfect, that's just life, but CBU is a solid choice to spend 4 years growing academically and spiritually into who you are going to be the rest of your life.

Bisceglia White

They need to address the hate crime that their students participated in. They should be expelled. I guess it is too much to ask a Christian university to uphold Christian values.

Andy Gonzales

Can't wait for my daughter to start in the fall! CBU is the best!

Max Truong

Love it

Lorenzo Chavez

very unfriendly baseball stuff if you don't practice their religion don't try it bad experience.

Jeff Willis

Great atmosphere...great location...great food options...great people.

Valerie Ramirez

I attend here and absolutely love it.

Regina D

Great campus, friendly and attentive staff, and an all around wonderful atmosphere

AB Vlogs

Nice university and friendly staff

Maria George

I love this school because they put God first! I have a peace of mind that my son is in good hands because he is surrounded by good people!

Hessam Rajabi

No fun in this college

San Diego SEO Expert

"Perfect atmosphere...Perfect location...Perfect food options...great people."

Monica Lizarraga

I love this school! Went for my Bachelors in Accounting and it was one of the best experiences of my life! I miss it. The school is beautiful, the professors are amazing along with the ambiance and food.

Carlos Medina

CBU is an outstanding school. The campus is beautiful, the people are friendly, and the food is excellent! If you have a student make sure they get a tour so they can experience CBU in person!

Zach Long

There are many things that make California Baptist an amazing university. The professors and faculty genuinely care about you. The dining options are of wide variety (#1 school in the state for food) The campus is breathtakingly beautiful The quality of education is A+ There's always recreational events and hugs to do for fun, and the community is great. If you come to CBU wanting to be in a community of uplifting, positive Christian people, that's just what you'll get.

Maria Hagberg

The school has so much to offer

James Waterman

Haley Perea and Savannah Sugg? Do they share your values?

Nick Lyons

meh

happi jacqueen

Love CBU, and after being here for 2 years I cannot see myself at any other school. Everything about this campus is amazing, and the food, gym, and friends make it so much better.

Melissa Acosta

The people at the office are really nice and they are very helpful! I love that it is a Christian school and I am definitely in love with it!

Person

This school refuses to expel students who were caught committing a racist assault on a innocent party.