Relationships are an important part of any educational experience. A Christian school is uniquely equipped to provide positive relationships for its students.

Christian schools are smaller. A smaller student body allows for better attention from the school's faculty and administration. Size and the tendency of believers to watch out for one another can provide encouragement as well as accountability to a young person facing new challenges and opportunities. Certainly, a public school is interested in encouraging students, but a school with a Christian mission statement will be better equipped to meet these needs. In addition to relationships, a Christian school provides an atmosphere more familiar to Christian students.

 A non-Christian campus, especially a large one, can be quite a shock to Christian children. The more wholesome environment on a Christian campus can provide just as many opportunities without all the distractions and stress. This is not to say that believers should be shut away from the world or be afraid of their neighbors. Christian teachers can serve as positive role models to Christian students.

A final benefit of Christian higher education is perhaps the most significant. The quality of a Christian educational experience is higher than any other. Christian educators have an additional motivation to do their work with excellence—the call of Christ on their lives to do just that (I Cor. 10:31, Col. 3:17). Quality may also be enhanced by the emphasis on subjects and teaching deemed by God to be of first importance. A biblical focus will inform the manner, content, and even the scope of an educational experience, and Christian schools may be less influenced by cultural (or educational) fads.