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Master of Divinity Campus (MDiv Campus)

Our Master of Divinity Campus program provides rigorous study, spiritual disciplines and day-to-day mentoring to form the core of ministry preparation. Students learn and live in a vibrant seminary community, in a diverse city with opportunities for challenge and growth and in a beautiful campus setting.

The MDiv Campus is designed for:

People who want the long-standing strengths of the Master of Divinity program combined with mentoring, fellowship and formation in a community
People seeking a context where they can integrate learning with living in community and engaging with the surrounding context
People who want to develop leadership abilities with a Christian perspective — leadership that reflects the Anabaptist tradition

Program requirements and majors

The Master of Divinity Campus program requires a total of 80 credit hours:

Most credit hours can be earned through classes and learning experiences offered on the AMBS campus. Some majors may include an occasional hybrid course that combines on-campus sessions with online work. Some credit hours can be earned through courses in other locations.

Current majors include:

Pastoral Ministry
Chaplaincy
Christian Faith Formation
Biblical Studies
History, Theology and Ethics
Peace Studies
Peace Studies: Environmental Sustainability

Program benefits

Earn a Master of Divinity in a community that lives, studies and worships together.
Develop an identity as a leader with skills to set vision and enable, encourage and challenge others.
Complement disciplined study with deep spiritual formation.
Learn from and with students who bring varied cultural backgrounds to intentional community living.
Integrate rigorous study with ministry practice through internships.
Orient learning and formation with an Anabaptist vision.
Discern God’s call with mentoring by faculty.
Share practices of spiritual formation and explore spiritual disciplines.

Degree design

MDiv Campus students can complete the 80-credit-hour program in four years of full-time study. Students who take an elevated course load of 12 hours each in Semester One (August/September–December) and Semester Two (January–April) and one Intensive Term course each year can complete the program in three years.

Leadership Education in Anabaptist Perspective (LEAP), an orientation course, must be taken as a hybrid course in August in the first year.

Download our Admissions Calendar to see an overview of AMBS’s academic year and note important application deadlines.

Expectations for MDiv Campus students

For a three-credit-hour course, students are expected to spend a minimum of 10 hours each week in activities related to the course, or a total of 140 hours for the duration of the course. This includes time spent in class sessions, as well as time reading and completing assigned work. For two- and one-credit-hour courses, the expectation is adjusted proportionally.

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**Yes, you can afford seminary!**

AMBS’s low base tuition rate
+ generous need-based financial aid
+ scholarships for full- or part-time student
+ church matching grants
= an affordable seminary degree

See how affordable it is

Scholarships

Check out these scholarships for MDiv Campus students — you may be eligible to apply!

Scholarship options for MDiv Campus students

Why seminary?

“The insights I gained from AMBS fuel my ongoing intellectual, spiritual and ministerial journey. As an Anabaptist from outside of the Western context, I felt welcomed and equipped with the tools to interact with and contribute to the evolving definition of Anabaptism at AMBS.”

Abenezer Shimeles Dejene of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (MDiv: Theological Studies: Biblical Studies 2025)