The Certificate in Biblical Counseling is designed to enhance coaching andspecific counseling skills to be used in a church-based setting. It is not a professional counseling certificate, and is not a preparation for state licensure, nor to receive church credentials.
Admission Requirements
In addition to submitting the appropriate application and application fee for graduate study, the candidate must submit the following materials or meet the following requirements in order to be accepted into the Certificate program:
Presentation of an official transcript with a completed bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution. This transcript must include a minimum of 6 semester hours in religion, with an exception possible for experience in full-time ministry recognized by the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
A minimum cumulative undergraduate GPA of 3.00. For an undergraduate GPA of 2.50 to 2.99 applicants may appeal to be admitted on a provisional basis.
Two recommendations. If the applicant is employed by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, one of these recommendations must be from the applicant’s employing organization.
Candidates are to submit a written “Statement of Purpose” following the guidelines provided by the School of Religion.
For students for whom English is not their first language and they did not graduate from an English-medium college or university, an Internet-based TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) score of 100 is required which may be taken through Duolingo.
Final decisions about acceptance into the program are made by the Graduate Studies Committee of the School of Religion.