Apply to a Master Program

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):

1. Briefly describe your spiritual journey, including your leadership experience and/or your capacities for leadership.
2. What are your educational and/or your vocational goals? What do you hope to draw from or rely upon to reach those goals?
3. What in particular about BST (curriculum, community, people, offerings, and/or values) influenced you to apply?
4. 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