Doctor of Educational Ministry

The Doctor of Educational Ministry (D.Ed.Min) is open to qualified applicants currently engaged in ministries of Christian education. Applicants should have a masters. degree in religious education and at least three years in educational ministry. Usually completed in four years, Columbia’s D.Ed.Min. was created to foster spiritual maturity as well as imaginative thinking about educational ministry as it is practiced within the life of congregations, as well as in other contexts..

This is a part-time program for those actively employed in an official position of educational ministry. The 36-hour semester academic program includes two-week residential courses on the Columbia Campus, with a practicum and final research project done in the student's place of ministry. The first cohort of students began in the Fall Term of 2006. The D.Ed.Min. program is offered every other year. Applications for the group that will begin with a September 22 – October 3, 2008 D.Ed.Min. Introductory Seminar, will be received from September 1, 2007 to April 30, 2008, with the applications reviewed as a group shortly after the April 30^th deadline.

The D.Ed.Min.application is available here or by contacting the Office of Advanced Studies.

For more information:
Advanced Degrees Office:
404 687-4534