Institute is about giving kids a positive experience and trying to get them to come back because there’s no requirement for them to be there.

At BYU, they have teachers without PhDs teaching required courses. Mostly they come up through CES, with a handful of GA’s kids and converted clergy from other churches, with quite teachers drawn from other BYU departments and a few local adjuncts.

There are a few classes where they have real homework where you learn what you would at a university level course at another school, but most of the time it’s seminary x5 with more required memorization of scripture mastery verses or memorizing one-sentence summaries of all the books in the D&C and having to list them all in sequence for the final. BYU students are not learning Greek or Hebrew or the history of the ancient Christian Church like they are elsewhere, or the sources that comprised the Bible, or why some books in the New Testament are thought to be pseudographical works by authors claiming authority for theological arguments...BYU classes are easier in that respect, but they can but stupidly hard in the wrong ways.