God is most glorified in you when you are most satisfied in him. Spend the next four years relishing this great truth as you mine the treasures of the Bible and consider the Great Books—works of history, literature, philosophy, and theology that have stood the test of time and resonated with human beings through the ages and around the world.

This is a program in which a conservative evangelical worldview is respected and a reformed, Calvinistic theological perspective is welcomed and encouraged. Public, private, classical, Christian, and home-schooled high school graduates may all thrive in this extraordinary college environment.

Here you will be challenged and pushed beyond your sense of your own abilities. In the process you will cultivate habits of mind and heart as you are intentionally stress-tested to ensure that you graduate with a resilient faith that is ready to stand firm and contend for truth in the home, church, and world.

This core demands more.

The Omnia extended academic core approaches all of human knowledge from a confessionally reformed theological perspective with an emphasis on understanding scriptural texts in the original biblical languages. It is classical in that it aims to recover the best of the Christian and classical liberal arts traditions, examining the diversity of human knowledge under the unifying discipline of theology. In other institutions, the academic core involves two years of meeting requirements in order to pursue your field of interest. Here, your field of interest is engaged on the first day of class and extended through a third year before you specialize. This approach also makes you better able to pursue a master’s degree in any of the three specialties in your fifth year, should you choose to do so.

You will learn in an extraordinarily small school with a tight-knit community of students, teachers, pastors, and church members who share a deep personal interest in both your academic performance and spiritual growth. And it all takes place amid the life of a globally-minded local church in a multi-ethnic urban center in which opportunities for equipping abound.

The undergraduate House System enriches college student life by fostering a community that promotes spiritual growth, academic flourishing, and leadership development. Each incoming college student is assigned to a gender-specific, non-residential “house,” which meets regularly to deepen friendships and strengthen each other’s faith through life together, events, and competition with other houses. These houses were named by student founders after historic figures who exemplify the life of Christian witness—with wisdom and wonder—that we aim to inspire: Augustine, Anne Dutton, Jonathan Edwards, Perpetua, C.S. Lewis, and Elisabeth Elliot.

Well-educated people are people who have the habits of mind and heart to go on learning what they need to learn to live in a Christ-exalting way for the rest of their lives.

— John Piper

Building upon the historical and theological framework established in our undergraduate core, the Theology and Biblical Studies major focuses more deeply on interpreting Scripture in its historical, literary, canonical, and redemptive-historical contexts. Students in this major will learn both Greek and Hebrew and will apply their study of the biblical languages to the exegesis of select books in the Old and New Testaments. All courses in this major will impress upon students the need to apply the truth learned to themselves, their church, and the surrounding culture. Students in this major will develop a strong grasp of the storyline of the Bible, the remarkable and Christ-centered unity between the Old and New Testaments, and the expansion of God’s global kingdom in history. Students will be given the opportunity to put the knowledge they gain in the classroom into practice through completion of a guided internship. Students who complete their fourth year in this program will have the opportunity to continue for a fifth year to obtain an accelerated Master of Arts. The tuition rate for 2024–2025 is $250/credit. Incoming Freshmen take 16 credits in the fall semester and 16 in the spring semester.

This is a degree program designed for those perceiving a call to vocations in Christian missions service and leadership. Building upon the historical and theological framework established in our undergraduate core, the Theology and Global Studies major invites students to examine carefully the historical and contemporary issues affecting cross-cultural ministry endeavors. This major also engages students in close examination of biblical texts, equipping students to study the Word accurately and to teach others from it. In addition, this major gives students theological categories for assessing methodologies proposed by the social sciences so that they might apply these insights to various contexts for missionary service in a biblically faithful manner. Students will learn to exegete both God’s Word and his world for the sake of clear, biblical exposition and faithful discipleship in an increasingly pluralistic world. Students will be given the opportunity to put the knowledge they gain in the classroom into practice through completion of a guided missions internship. Students who complete their fourth year in this program will have the opportunity to continue for a fifth year to obtain an accelerated Master of Arts. The tuition rate for 2024–2025 is $250/credit. Incoming Freshmen take 16 credits in the fall semester and 16 in the spring semester.

Building upon the historical and theological framework established in our undergraduate core, the Theology and Letters major is designed to equip undergraduate men and women with the skills needed to think clearly and accurately about the world in which they live and to challenge them to live faithfully in the home, the church, and the world. This major focuses upon great works of Western Civilization with a view to equipping students to evaluate the seminal ideas in the history of thought in light of the self-disclosure of the triune God. The program will not merely expose students to the great thinkers and ideas of history, but it will equip them to participate in the Great Conversation while growing into mature human beings who are broad-minded and big-hearted, possessing firm convictions and eager to pursue wisdom and wonder for the rest of their lives. Students will be given the opportunity to put the knowledge they gain in the classroom into practice through completion of a guided internship. Students who complete their fourth year in this program will have the opportunity to continue for a fifth year to obtain an accelerated Master of Arts. The tuition rate for 2024–2025 is $250/credit. Incoming Freshmen take 16 credits in the fall semester and 16 in the spring semester.

Bethlehem offers three traditional Master of Arts degrees designed for students seeking graduate-level work in theology, missiology, or humanities. All three feature core courses in Christian doctrine and Greek, but the three programs also include the following distinctives:

(1) Theology and Biblical Studies – Hebrew & Ethics
(2) Theology and Global Studies – Missions & Anthropology
(3) Theology and Letters – The Great Books

These M.A. degrees are available in an accelerated format to Bethlehem college students or as a 2-year, full-time degree to applicants with a completed bachelor’s degree. The 2024–2025 tuition rate for the M.A. program is $250 per credit.

Students can leave here without a burden of student loan debt. Tuition is unusually affordable because generous disciples of Christ affirm the quality of this “Education in Serious Joy” by providing a $10,000 annual Serious Joy Scholarship to all students so that they may launch without debt into life and ministry upon graduation.