Completion & Graduation Rates
Graduation Rates (Percentage) by Degree – as reported in 2022:
- Master of Divinity (MDiv) completed within 6 years: 83%
- Master of Arts (MA changed to MAR in FA22) completed within 4 years: 91%
- Master of Sacred Theology (STM) degree completed within 2 years: 100%
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree completed within 8 years: 27%
Completions (Numbers) by Degree – graduation year 2022:
| MDiv | MA | STM | PhD | |
| <2 years | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 |
| 2 to <3 years | 0 | 15 | 2 | 0 |
| 3 to <4 years | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 to <5 years | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 to <6 years | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Total Graduates | 31 | 15 | 17 | 4 |
Placement Rates
Placement (Percentage) by Degree – graduation year 2022:
| MDiv | MA | STM | PhD | |
| Vocational Placement | 13% | 13% | 6% | 0% |
| Non-Vocational Placement | 0% | 0% | 12% | 25% |
| Further Study | 6% | 13% | 10% | 0% |
| Seeking Placement | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Other | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Unknown | 81% | 73% | 82% | 75% |
| Total Graduates (Numbers) | 31 | 15 | 17 | 3 |
Student Performance – Academic Programs
Master of Divinity (MDiv) Graduates – 2022:
| Final Advisor Report | |
| Learning Goals | responses = 27 (of 31) |
| One: To develop a broad and critical understanding of the Bible as foundation of the Christian traditions, and for Buddhism and Interreligious Engagement or Islam and Interreligious Engagement concentrators, a broad and critical understanding of their respective sacred texts/interpretations; to engage in and interpret exegetically informed and contextually-sensitive Bible/sacred texts in historical, literary, contemporary global, and multi-religious contexts; to demonstrate the capacity to establish connections between the Bible and other sacred texts. | moderate degree: 11%
high degree: 37% very high degree: 48% |
| Two: To demonstrate the capacity to: understand and reflect on the Christian tradition within the context of one’s own culture through cultural, religious, and moral pluralism, including consideration of relativism and dialogue with science; to identify and describe the concepts involved in the basic doctrines of Christian faith and show connections between them; to understand classic and contemporary methods of moral decision-making. | moderate degree: 22%
high degree: 26% very high degree: 52% |
| Three: To demonstrate knowledge of historical events and developments that gave rise to diverse forms of Christianity; to use historical techniques to analyze and understand how inherited beliefs and faiths are expressed and lived conditioned by the circumstances of time and place; to demonstrate how cultural context shapes stories that people of faith share about themselves and their communities. | moderate degree: 30%
high degree: 48% very high degree: 22% |
| Four: To demonstrate the capacity to learn about and from diverse religious traditions on their own terms; and the capacity to engage in sustained self-reflection and acknowledgment of one’s own assumptions when encountering manifestations of religious diversity. | moderate degree: 11%
high degree: 41% very high degree: 48% |
| Five: To gain knowledge and critical awareness of existing power dynamics and structures in terms of gender, sexuality, race, class, and identities targeted for oppression, and how they shape theology, ethics, history and other forms of theological engagement; to effectively and constructively engage the world’s serious issues such as racial and sexual/gender injustice, mass incarceration, and the climate crisis, in ways informed by deep theological, historical, and critical study; to build theological, theoretical, critical, and contextually accountable foundations for the study of religious communities, movements, and societies. | moderate degree: 15%
high degree: 26% very high degree: 59% |
| Six: To cultivate critical self-awareness and emotional and spiritual maturity; to engage in spiritual self reflection with particular attention to interreligious engagement; and to learn to respond to others with empathy and self-awareness. | moderate degree: 11%
high degree: 30% very high degree: 59% |
| Seven: To develop pastoral and moral imagination with attention to interreligious engagement and ethical decision-making; to cultivate theological, theoretical, and critical foundations for the practices of preaching and public communication, worship and ritual, effective and safe pastoral and spiritual care, religion and education, and theology and the arts. | moderate degree: 7%
high degree: 41% very high degree: 52% |
Master of Arts (MA) Graduates – 2022:
| Final Advisor Report | |
| Learning Goals | responses = 11 (of 15) |
| One: To develop a broad and critical understanding of the Bible as foundation of the Christian traditions, and for Buddhism and Interreligious Engagement or Islam and Interreligious Engagement concentrators, a broad and critical understanding of their respective sacred texts/interpretations; to engage in and interpret exegetically informed and contextually-sensitive Bible/sacred texts in historical, literary, contemporary global, and multi-religious contexts; to demonstrate the capacity to establish connections between the Bible and other sacred texts. | moderate degree: 9%
high degree: 73% very high degree: 18% |
| Two: To demonstrate the capacity to: understand and reflect on the Christian tradition within the context of one’s own culture through cultural, religious, and moral pluralism, including consideration of relativism and dialogue with science; to identify and describe the concepts involved in the basic doctrines of Christian faith and show connections between them; to understand classic and contemporary methods of moral decision-making. | moderate degree: 9%
high degree: 36% very high degree: 55% |
| Three: To demonstrate knowledge of historical events and developments that gave rise to diverse forms of Christianity; to use historical techniques to analyze and understand how inherited beliefs and faiths are expressed and lived conditioned by the circumstances of time and place; to demonstrate how cultural context shapes stories that people of faith share about themselves and their communities. | moderate degree: 9%
high degree: 58% very high degree: 18% |
| Four: To demonstrate the capacity to learn about and from diverse religious traditions on their own terms; and the capacity to engage in sustained self-reflection and acknowledgment of one’s own assumptions when encountering manifestations of religious diversity. | moderate degree: 27%
high degree: 45% very high degree: 27% |
| Five: To gain knowledge and critical awareness of existing power dynamics and structures in terms of gender, sexuality, race, class, and identities targeted for oppression, and how they shape theology, ethics, history and other forms of theological engagement; to effectively and constructively engage the world’s serious issues such as racial and sexual/gender injustice, mass incarceration, and the climate crisis, in ways informed by deep theological, historical, and critical study; to build theological, theoretical, critical, and contextually accountable foundations for the study of religious communities, movements, and societies. | moderate degree: 0%
high degree: 45% very high degree: 54% |
| Six: To attain competency in the student’s chosen concentration in preparation for advanced studies, teaching, or for application in non-academic public and organizational contexts. Learning Outcome Six: Successful completion of a minimum of fifteen credits in a concentration as identified by a field, or combination of fields as an interdisciplinary concentration. | moderate degree: 0%
high degree: 18% very high degree: 82% |
| Seven: To attain competency in academic research and writing skills. | moderate degree: 0%
high degree: 27% very high degree: 73% |
Master of Sacred Theology (STM) Graduates – 2022:
| Final Advisor Report | |
| Learning Goals | |
| responses = 8 (of 10) | |
| One: To acquire advanced mastery of a focused area or discipline in the context of general theological study. | moderate degree: 0%
high degree: 0% very high degree: 100% |
| Two: To develop an ability to formulate productive research questions and to use research resources and methods in the chosen area or discipline. | moderate degree: 0%
high degree: 0% very high degree: 100% |
| Three: To improve language proficiency. | insufficient evidence: 50%
moderate degree: 13% high degree: 25% very high degree: 13% |