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. Following ATS expectations regarding some degree of on-site learning and research, three of the nine courses are formatted as hybrid courses with a residential intensive. The other five courses can be taken either as live, synchronous classes or completely online with no live classroom requirements. The fully distance (“asynchronous”) option for these five courses 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
United’s Doctor of Ministry degree program will prepare you to:
United’s D.Min. 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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