$10,000 per year available to every full-time student.

Generous contributors make it possible for students to launch immediately into life and ministry without student loan debt.

Our aim is, by God’s grace, to build an intentionally small college and seminary of about 250 students, total: 70 in the seminary, 180 in the college.

It costs Bethlehem College and Seminary about $18,500 per year to provide one student our Bible-saturated, academically rigorous, “Education in Serious Joy,” a program of higher education laser-focused on the task of equipping a new generation of men and women “to contend for the faith once for all delivered to the saints” (Jude 1:3).

We keep student tuition not just low, not just unusually low, but

really,

really,

really,

low,
about $8,500 a year, so that our students can launch upon graduation into adulthood, life, ministry, and vocation without a burden of student loan debt—financially unshackled and ready to answer immediately God’s call on their lives.

We do that by employing extreme frugality in administration and facilities expenses, and by making bold, open-handed investments in hiring and retaining a world-class faculty to teach these students. Our work is done in the adorned simplicity of unused Sunday school rooms during the week. We receive no federal or state student aid funds.

Beyond that, we depend on God to supply the remaining $10,000 per student or $2.5 million per year. We call this personal ministry on the part of the saints, of which both the faculty and students are then beneficiaries, The Serious Joy Scholarship.

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How The Serious Joy Scholarship Works

DescriptionAmount
Full Annual Tuition$18,500
Serious Joy Scholarship–$10,000
Net Student Tuition$8,500

Introducing Two New Scholastic Merit Scholarships

Full first-year tuition for qualified students, awarded annually.

The John Piper Scholarship at Bethlehem College and Seminary provides a one-year full-tuition scholarship for a limited number of excellent undergraduate students who are recommended by pastors and leaders of strategic partner churches and ministries. After the first year of studies, John Piper Scholars will pay the extraordinarily low, normal tuition rate subsidized by the $10,000 Serious Joy Scholarship.

Here are the eligibility requirements to be considered for The John Piper Scholarship:

  • Applicants for the residential B.A. programs must have a minimum composite score on a major standardized test (26 ACT, 1240 SAT, or 87 CLT) and a 3.5 cumulative GPA on official high school transcripts and college transcripts (for transfer applicants).
  • Applicants must have a strong recommendation by either (a) a pastor of a participating church partner at which your family is a current member (e.g., Treasuring Christ Together, select apprenticing churches) or (b) a teacher, leader, or staff member from a participating education partner (e.g., ACCS or SCL affiliated Classical Christian high school you attend or graduated from, select gap year programs, and Worldview Academy). Applicants must also complete an interview with a Bethlehem faculty member.
  • Applicants must commit to live on campus, work toward the completion of a B.A. degree while enrolled in full-time college classes (12 or more credits per semester) maintaining a 3.0 minimum GPA, and be active members of a TCT Network church or other approved partner church.
  • Submit all application materials by March 1. Applicants will be notified by April 1 and must confirm their scholarship award with a non-refundable deposit by May 1.
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Full four-year tuition for one seminarian and one college student, awarded annually.

The Chancellor’s Scholarship at Bethlehem College and Seminary is a four-year, full-tuition scholarship available to one outstanding College applicant and one outstanding Seminary applicant each academic year.

Here are the eligibility requirements to be considered for The Chancellor’s Scholarship:

  • Applicants for the residential Master of Divinity pastoral apprenticeship program must have a 3.75 cumulative GPA from an accredited B.A. or B.S. program and significant ministry involvement in a local church and/or campus ministry for at least two years.
  • Applicants for the residential B.A. programs must have a minimum composite score on a major standardized test (30 ACT, 1360 SAT, or 99 CLT), a minimum cumulative weighted GPA of 3.75 on official high school transcripts and college transcripts (for transfer applicants).
  • All applicants for The Chancellor’s Scholarship must have strong academic and pastoral recommendations, must complete an interview with a Bethlehem faculty member, and must submit an 800–1,000 essay responding to this prompt: “Why do you desire to pursue an Education in Serious Joy at Bethlehem College and Seminary?” Essays must be written without the use of AI in any form (in keeping with Bethlehem’s standards for writing assignments).
  • To continue receiving The Chancellor’s Scholarship, the student must maintain full-time student status with a 3.5 cumulative GPA and be an active member of a TCT Network church or other approved partner church.
  • Submit all application materials by March 1. Applicants will be notified by April 1 and must confirm their scholarship award with a non-refundable deposit by May 1.
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Bethlehem College and Seminary receives no funds at all from the U.S. Department of Education, Federal Pell Grants, Student Loan Programs, State of Minnesota, or denominational support.

Bethlehem College and Seminary is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit institution. Contributions are tax-deductible. Those interested in making larger transformational or legacy gifts of cash or securities may contact: Rick Segal, Vice President of Advancement, Bethlehem College & Seminary, 720 13th Ave. S, Minneapolis, MN 55415, 612.455.3420 ext. 1122, [email protected]. For recurring gifts, you may call 612.455.3420 ext. 1110 or email [email protected] to cancel or change your donation schedule or amount.

Bethlehem College and Seminary is independently audited on an annual basis by the Certified Public Accounting firm of CliftonLarsenAllen, copies of the reports are available upon request. The school also submits annual financial reports to the Accrediting Commission of the Association of Biblical Higher Education.

Why We Do Not File IRS Form 990

Bethlehem College and Seminary is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization as determined by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service on April 22, 2008. The sole members of this organization are the elder boards of two local church congregations. By virtue of this intentional church-based form of organization, we are not obligated to file IRS Form 990, an exception we enjoy as a matter of constitutionally protected religious liberty.

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