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4 years
Estimated tuition
$42,900
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Program highlights
Personalize your degree
You'll choose a concentration to dig deeper into an area you find most applicable to your personal and ministry goals.
Practical, agile ministry skills
You’ll have internship opportunities that provide hands-on ministry practice. And you’ll learn how to adapt your training to serve and lead in the ever-changing contexts of today—and tomorrow.
Supportive, diverse community
You’ll build lifelong connections with faculty mentors and fellow students, and benefit from their rich diversity of experience. Bethel Seminary students come from a broad range of backgrounds, fields, and cultures. You’ll form connections that will last a lifetime.
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Transformation starts here.
At Bethel Seminary, you’ll experience personal and spiritual transformation that will equip you to transform others—for eternal impact. Our Master of Divinity program prepares you to lead and serve with confidence in a broad range of contexts from churches to academic settings to nonprofits.
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Bethel's online program works great for me. It combines the best practices of online learning and classroom teaching. I am able to learn from a proven professor, study at my own pace, and progress with my cohort.
Jonathan De Groot '17Current job: Campus Ministries at Dordt College
Career Outcomes
Wondering what you can do with a Master of Divinity degree?
The Master of Divinity program will prepare you for traditional church roles, but also ministry leadership in missions, campus and student ministries, and business and nonprofits.
Skills
Learn how to:
- Interpret the Bible with maturity and discernment
- Understand 20 centuries of theology and apply that wisdom to 21st century life
- Communicate God’s Word in inspiring and transforming ways
- Develop cultural sensitivity so you can lead effectively in diverse settings
- Guide people to reconciliation with God and others
- Prepare for ordination in your denomination or setting
Careers
Our M.Div. graduates serve as:
- Lead or Senior Pastors
- Pastors
- Missionaries
- Chaplains
- Denominational ministers
- Non-profit and parachurch leaders
- Church planters in innovative settings
- Professionals in any other setting
Graduate Schools
Our graduates have gone on to study at places like:
- Princeton University
- Fuller Seminary
- Rice University
- St. Louis University
- Marquette University
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Chicago
- Fordham University
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