The information below provides instructions and details on how to apply to a Master program. Scroll down to start your application now!
All applicants must have a bachelors degree from an accredited institution with at least a 2.5 GPA.
Required Application Materials:
Application form – available online below.
Personal statement – can be uploaded or typed in the online application. Applicants are required to answer the following questions (1000 words maximum):
- Briefly describe your spiritual journey, including your leadership experience and/or your capacities for leadership.
- What are your educational and/or your vocational goals? What do you hope to draw from or rely upon to reach those goals?
- What in particular about BST (curriculum, community, people, offerings, and/or values) influenced you to apply?
- Select what you understand to be one of today’s most critical issues and reflect on it in terms of your own theological perspective
Three references – cannot be from a spouse or other relative of the applicant. Recommendations can be sent automatically through the online application or emailed to admissions@bst.edu. One reference must be from a pastor and two references can be either academic or professional.
Official transcripts from all schools attended after high school with at least one transcript showing you have been awarded a Bachelor’s degree.
Application Fee – please pay online, submit a check or a money order to Berkeley School of Theology.
$40.00 – Domestic Students
$80.00 – International Students
REQUIRED APPLICATION MATERIALS
For questions, please contact the Admissions Office at admissions@bst.edu or (510) 841-1905 ext 229.