For the Thriving of the Church and the Healing of the World

Fall 2025 Semester Early Action Deadline

Apply by November 15, 2025, for our Master degree programs and you could be eligible for a minimum 65% scholarship, up to 100% of tuition.

Discover the Masters program that is right for your future

Discern God’s will and claim your unique call

Garrett’s programs prepare you to offer trauma-informed care with the support and training you need to serve well. Garrett’s degree programs integrate rigorous academic study with real-world experiences, priming graduates to address challenges in congregations, communities, and academia. Discover the program that is right for your future. world.

Master of Arts in Pastoral Care and Counseling

Join a distinctively interdisciplinary pastoral care and counseling training program (hybrid or in-person)

Master of Divinity (MDiv)
in Pastoral Care and Counceling

Become a servant leader who ministers through radical theological imagination (online or in-person)

Doctor of Ministry (DMin)
in Spiritual Direction

Enhance your skills, stimulate your pastoral imagination, and attend to ongoing spiritual and vocational formation (hybrid)

Doctor of Philosophy in Pastoral Theology

Build a strong academic foundation for graduate-level research, professional enhancement, or personal enrichment (online or in-person)

Celebrating over 170 years of preparing courageous spiritual leaders

For over 170 years we have prepared spiritually adventurous, intellectually daring, and deeply faithful leaders for service to the Church, the academy, and diverse cultures and settings. Over the course of that long history, much has remained constant—our Christian identity and purpose, our Methodist tradition and ethos, our ecumenical spirit and commitment, and our determination to form and equip servant leaders who are ready, willing, and able to lead courageously in challenging times.