International Students

The Seminary encourages qualified international students to make application if they have a financial guarantor in the United States, or if they have sufficient evidence from some responsible organization in their home country to show means of support and necessary travel expenses for attendance at the Seminary. The Seminary is unable to grant full financial scholarships to any international students. Furthermore, it is difficult for non-immigrant students to receive permission for off-campus employment during the first year in the United States. Under no circumstance should an applicant prepare to arrive in the United States until he has been granted final acceptance. Applicants arriving without means of support and a student visa are normally deported at the expense of their national governments and are not eligible for readmission to the United States.

All foreign applicants must, upon request, submit a catalog of the school from which they received an undergraduate degree. Applicants holding advanced degrees should provide full information on such programs of study.

An examination to establish the applicant's ability to use the English language for graduate study in theology is required. The required examination is the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). Applicants are responsible to make their own arrangements for this examination by writing the Educational Testing Service, Box 955, Princeton, New Jersey 08540. An alternative examination in English as a second language is available from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. The testing organization should send the results directly to the Seminary. Subsequent to enrollment, if the student's command of English proves inadequate, the Seminary reserves the right to require further language study by the student before such student is qualified for graduation.

Each applicant is required to submit a statement from his national church endorsing his educational plans as necessary preparation for leadership in that church and to show evidence that such theological education is not available to him in his homeland.

The Seminary admits students of any race, color, national, and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national, and ethnic origin or physical handicap in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, athletics, and other administered programs.