The Master of Divinity is designed to provide graduates in theology the opportunity to undertake study at a masters level by coursework, thus consolidating and enhancing their areas of specialization enabling them to proceed to new areas of professional and expertise.

Bachelor Degree in a non-theological discipline.

English Language: IELTS score of 7.0 overall with minimum 7.0 in reading and writing, along with a minimum of 6.5 in listening and speaking.

The Master of Divinity comprises 24 subjects in total. It can be studied from a minimum of 3 years full-time, and up to 9 years part-time.

Each MDiv Student is required to undertake a Project that is an in depth research essay of 8000 words focused in the area of the student’s major.

Students should also expect 3 hours of class time and a further 6 – 8 hours on assessment requirements each week for every 4 cp subject.

• Ability to successfully negotiate the content and demands of a number of units in a specialised field of study in which theological insights are brought to bear upon the graduates’ ministry context
• Demonstration of knowledge and competence of skills in the analysis of texts and ideas, and issues
• Demonstration of wide reading, intellectual independence, critical thinking and analytic rigour at early postgraduate level such that the potential for research at masters level is emerging

Students are required to undertake one of the following:

• Field Education unit (4cps credit taken over consecutive 1 or 2 semesters)
• Practical Ministry placement (not for credit)