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
2 comments:
2011-12 tuition and fees at Lutheran seminaries can be found here:
LCMS Seminary Cost Scandal:
Fabulous Costs To Support Posh Professor Salaries, Sept 17, 2011:
http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2011/09/lcms-seminary-cost-scandal-fabulous.html
I did some research on the top eight most expensive seminaries, and it seems the headline on this post ought to read that the LCMS seminaries are the 6th and 8th most expensive seminaries in N America, or maybe even 5th and 7th most expensive. The reason is that anyone accepted into Notre Dame's M.Div program receives a full scholarship--and that's worth $120,000. Also, McAffee School of Theology knocks down their tuition charge for everyone from $835 to $335 per credit hour.
I know that Ft. Wayne and St. Louis offered fairly generous scholarships in the past, but had to dial those back after a few years since money was getting tight. Those blanket grants to student never come close to paying half their student bill, and do even less now, I believe, and besides that, there's nothing about any grant to every student on either seminary's web site.
References:
$835 knocked down to to $335 per credit hour for all students at McAffee School of Theology:
http://theology.mercer.edu/about/cost-to-attend.cfm
The Greek Orthodox pay 80% of tuition for all students for seven years of school--4 at college and 3 at seminary:
http://www.hchc.edu/hellenic/admissions/scholarships-continued.html
"This scholarship provides for 80% of tuition for four years for all incoming students in both Hellenic College and Holy Cross."
Three year M. Div. at Holy Cross seminary, p. 11:
http://holycross.hchc.edu/assets/files/Catalogues/HolyCrossCatalog2010.pdf
Vanderbilt provides scholarships that range from full tuition plus stipend to just one-third off tuition, but doesn't say whether every student receives a scholarship:
http://divinity.vanderbilt.edu/admissions/tuition.php
Full Tuition Scholarship at Notre Dame seminary for all M Div students:
http://mdiv.nd.edu/first_time_visitors/full_tuition_scholarship.shtml
"All Catholic lay students admitted in the Master of Divinity program receive a full tuition scholarship for three years."
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