Increase your capacity to minister in our globalized and multifaith world. The Doctor of Ministry offers specialized, focused training designed to enhance the ministry of people who have substantial experience in a ministerial leadership role.
This 36-credit degree program can be reasonably completed in four years if you maintain a full-time course load (12 credits per year) and complete your dissertation in a little over a year.
You will complete eight courses at 4 credits each, followed by a 4-credit dissertation.
The DMin dissertation, once completed, is read and evaluated by a dissertation committee comprised of your dissertation advisor and other qualified evaluators (usually other professors). You then will be required to “defend” the dissertation in an oral examination with your committee.
Yes–mostly. Eight of the nine courses can be taken either as synchronous courses with weekly classes that can be attended in-person or online via Zoom, or as asynchronous online courses in which work can be completed with periodic to no in-person or Zoom meetings. The fully distance asynchronous option is designed for students for whom daily work commitments require maximum flexibility. For students who prefer to take some or all of their courses with a live classroom component, that is also possible.
The Narrative Leadership course, required for all DMin concentrations, is offered only as a hybrid online course in which weekly coursework is completed asynchronously online, and a required 5-day in-person on-campus intensive is scheduled in the middle of the term.
The DMin degree learning outcomes detail the skills students develop over the course of the DMin degree program.
United’s DMin degree offers four concentration options:
The “Directed Study” concentration is open-ended, allowing you to design your own experience in conversation with your advisor and the Director of Advanced Studies.
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