Additional Degree Requirements
Candidacy
In order to advance toward the Master of Arts in Pastoral Studies, the student must attain candidacy by completing 20 units of coursework, including 2 units of field education, with a grade-point average of 2.7 or better. In addition, the student must comply with three candidacy requirements.
- A satisfactory evaluation by the professor of field education and field ministry supervisors
- A satisfactory evaluation of the student’s spiritual and personal growth and skills for ministry development by the faculty
- Approval for candidacy by C.P. Haggard Graduate School of Theology faculty (The faculty may act to grant candidacy and permission to continue studies, or deny candidacy and recommend that the student be dropped from the program.)
All students in the Master of Arts in Pastoral Studies Program should devote at least 9 hours per week, for the duration of the program, to the practice of some form of supervised ministry in an approved church or parachurch field center.
In order to graduate, a student must maintain at least a 2.7 grade-point average.
Time Limit
The Master of Arts in Pastoral Studies must be completed within eight years from the date of admission. APU coursework completed more than eight years prior to completion of degree requirements is not acceptable toward the degree.
