LCMS Seminaries 7th and 9th Most Expensive Seminaries in N
America
The 2011-12 school year ATS data tables won't be compiled and posted until January 2012, according to ATS, so I thought I'd run last year's numbers, i.e., school year 2010-11. (What was posted on Ichabod in September 2010 came from the 2009-10 school year ATS tables, which at the time were the latest available.)
As you can see from the truncated table above, Concordia Seminary in St. Louis came in the seventh most expensive in the nation if its vicarage tuition of $10,070 that year was divided into three and distributed to the other three years. Otherwise, it came in lower at #18. Ft. Wayne came in at ninth most expensive.
It is worth noting that a lot of other seminaries have only a three
year program for M Div, and that includes a vicarage year. So if the total
cost of the M Div were tallied, LCMS seminaries would rank even higher
on the cost chart, no doubt.
Cost Rank: School Year 2010-11 - from the ATS Tables (full
spreadsheet)
The
2010-11 school year ATS data tables, or find a copy here:
Previous seminary cost comparison post on Ichabod:
Seminary
Costs Compared - Missouri Leads With Most Expensive, September 17,
2010
