PhD/THS Program Admission Requirements

In addition to the general doctoral admission requirements, applicants for the PhD/THS program must fulfill several requirements:

1. Have earned a Master of Divinity (MDiv) degree (or equivalent) from an accredited institution. Specifically this must include Old Testament and Biblical Hebrew, New Testament and Biblical Greek, Systematic Theology, and Church History. In special circumstances, the department of concentration may accept applicants who demonstrate particular qualities that justify their admission into the program without the MDiv degree.
2. Have documented evidence of competency in biblical Greek and Hebrew.
3. Present evidence of potential for original academic research at the doctoral level by submitting a sample of an exemplary research paper or thesis.
4. Give evidence of a superior intellectual ability in all previous accredited graduate studies.
5. Have earned a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.5 (on a 4.0 scale) in previous graduate studies.
6. Submit a test score from the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) General Test. Applicants whose first language is not English must also submit scores less than two years old from the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), the Test of Written English (TWE), and the Test of Spoken English (TSE) in addition to the GRE.

Updated to 2008-09 Catalog