Holy Apostles College and Seminary offers a variety of graduate-level degree and certificate programs, on campus and online.The M.A. is designed to give religious and laity a broad acquaintance with the major theological and philosophical disciplines, and the opportunity to choose a concentration. The M.A. degree requires 36 semester hours of graduate course work. All students must take four core courses and a comprehensive exam.

With the exception of the basic requirements for each discipline, the program is flexible and designed to prepare graduates for ministry, teaching philosophy, religion or theology, for subsequent licentiate or doctoral work at another institution, or for integrating a theological component into the student's existing life and profession. Students in this program may transfer up to six credits from another academic institution.

Degree Options

The Master of Arts - Theology

• available on campus and via our distance learning program

• Areas of Concentration for both commuter and distance learning students: Church History, Dogmatic Theology, Moral Theology and Sacred Scripture.

• Areas of Concentration for commuter students only: Bioethics, Liturgy, Philosophical Theology and Religious Education

The Master of Arts - Philosophy

• available only via our distance learning program

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Certificate Programs

Holy Apostles also offers, on campus only, a non-degree post-bachelor's certificate program and a degree-level Post Master's Certificate in Theology.

• The non-degree post-bachelor's certificate is a 15-credit program for students who wish to gain more thorough knowledge in one particular area of theological study.

• The Post Graduate Certificate in Theology is a 30-credit intermediate degree between the master's and the doctorate to prepare students for further licentiate or doctoral study at another academic institution.  Four core courses and a terminating paper are required. Students in this program may transfer up to six credits from another academic institution.

• Students in all certificate programs must choose an area of concentration. The concentrations are the same as those noted for the Master of Arts degree offered to commuter students.

For all of the above programs there is a ten-year time limit for completion of the degree requirements, starting from entry into the program.

last updated 06/15/09 hav.