The student must furnish evidence of graduation from a Master of Divinity program in an acceptable seminary or graduate school or meet the requirements for a M.Div. equivalency. Upon receipt of an application, the director of the D.Min. program and the D.Min. admissions committee will supervise his acceptance into the program and monitor his progress through the program. The committee will be comprised of the director and two faculty members with the director serving as chairman.
The student must have earned a 3.0 average in all graduate studies. A limited number of students who have GPAs that don’t meet requirements may be accepted on a probationary basis. The number of probationary students will not exceed 10% of the students enrolled in the D.Min. program.
The student must be currently serving in a full-time ministry in a local church, in world missions, or teaching in a practical field of a Christian school training men for a pastoral or world missions ministry. The official board or supervisor of the student must submit a letter of recommendation to the Director of the D.Min. program. It must include an evaluation of his service and qualifications for doctoral studies.
The student must have a minimum of three years of full-time experience in one of the ministries listed above.
The student must have two peers who are in a position to evaluate his ministry submit recommendation forms to the Director of the D.Min. program.
The student must submit a formal application accompanied by a self-evaluation of his current ministry and setting forth his purpose in pursuing doctoral study.
He must request that transcripts be sent to the director of the D.Min. program by all schools where graduate work was done.
The committee may request the completion of Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) or other exams to demonstrate ability to do post-graduate work.
