Ashland Seminary is a graduate division of Ashland University, a school founded in 1888 by members of the Brethren Church, with roots in German Anabaptist and Pietist movements. The seminary is currently multi-denominational in scope, with over 700 students coming from about 70 different ecclesial bodies. We offer Masters-level programs in biblical studies, historical and theological studies, practical theology, and counselling/mental health, as well as the Doctor of Ministry degree.
Most students have outside employment, which they use to fund their program. Many also seek financial aid through federal grant and loan programs or through their church bodies. Scholarships are becoming increasingly available thanks to the generosity of donors and the diligence of our development team.
Ashland has always welcomed international students, both for the privilege of teaching them and for the many ways in which they enrich everyone’s experience here. Faculty and administration typically go out of their way to make international students feel connected and at home.
See response to question #6.
Student surveys tells us that we do a very good job of teaching them to interpret Scripture, to communicate its challenge in preaching and teaching, and to think through issues theologically. This is not distinctive, per se, but it is a strong statement about our ability to deliver, as it were, in areas traditionally of great importance for a seminary education. I would say that our commitment as a faculty not only to the education of our students, but also to their formation as disciples and as Christian leaders, is a distinctive strength of our institution. Our faculty is wholly committed not only to the disciplines that we teach, but also to the church that our students will serve and to the God to whom we must all give account.
We have a solid collection of about 80,000 books and periodicals on campus; a special arrangement with other Ohio libraries called OhioLINK makes virtually any book accessible to faculty and students. For the occasional, truly arcane monograph there is “Inter-library Loan.”
We offer as many courses online as we do at any one of our physical locations; increasingly we are opening up “face-to-face” classes to remote populations through such video-conferencing tools as “WebEx.” We hope to be able to offer complete degrees online (such as the MA in Practical Theology and MA in Biblical Studies) in the very near future. Students can, however, currently complete more than half of any of our degrees from a remote location. I personally teach several online or synchronous courses each year.
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