Masters Degrees

Description
The Master of Divinity is a professional graduate degree beyond the Bachelor of Arts or equivalent, designed to equip students for effective ministry as a pastor, associate pastor, church planter, evangelist, or missionary. This is a three-year program primarily related to preparation for the pastoral and missionary ministry, requiring eighty-eight semester hours of academic credit for graduation.

 

Objectives
The Master of Divinity program is designed to promote in students growth toward personal maturity and professional ministry competence. The objectives of the program are accomplished through classroom instruction, the modeling of professors, the practice of ministry through the Practical Missions program, chapel services, and student organizations.

 

The Master of Divinity program seeks to guide students to develop the ability to understand and interpret the Christian faith in the light of its biblical, theological, and historical dimensions and to utilize insights gained from these disciplines for the effective practice of ministry in the church, the community, and the world.

 

Admission Requirements
In addition to the general admission requirements to the Seminary, applicants for admission to any masters degree program must meet additional requirements. All applicants to any masters degree program must be at least twenty years old by the time of their first registration. All applicants to masters degree programs must have graduated from an accredited college or university with a bachelor’s degree or equivalent (see the Catalog for full details and exceptions).

 

Completion Requirements
In order to qualify for graduation from Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary, each student in the Master of Divinity program must satisfy the “General Requirements for Graduation” as set forth in the Catalog. In addition each student in the Master of Divinity program must complete the eighty-eight semester hours of courses specified in the following chart.

 

The Master of Divinity program includes three components: (1) seventy-three semester hours of required courses; (2) fifteen semester hours of elective courses. In addition to the equivalent of six semester hours of prerequisite Beginning Greek, students must take six semester hours of Intermediate Greek and six semester hours of Elementary Hebrew Grammar. For students required to take the six hours of beginning Greek, those hours are calculated in the fifteen hours of free electives.