College Students and the Numbers

 The National Center for Education Statistics says in 2020 in the United States there were:

   19.4 million college students

    12 million full time students

In 2020 65% of Americans identified as Christians according to the Pew Research Center.  If 65% of college students were connected to and involved with a college ministry that would be:

    7.8 million college students involved in a college ministry

To my knowledge, no one has ever come up with a figure of how many college students are involved in a Christian campus based ministry or church college ministry.  In trying to come up with such a figure, I have talked with different College Ministers who work locally and nationally.  Out of these conversations, I have come to the figure of 5% of students involved.  On many deep south campuses, it is larger than this.  On campuses not in the Bible Belt, it would be significantly less.

If 5% of college students were in a Christian campus based ministry or a church college ministry, that would be:

 600,000 college students currently connected to a college ministry

Let's be super optimistic and say it is:

 600,000 to 1,000,000

That would leave 11,000,000 college students to reach for witness and ministry.  That is not counting those students who are part time. Think and pray about it.

Arliss Dickerson's book, A College Ministry Success Formula, is available at Amazon.com/dp/B091F5S1RF.