Scholarships

Merit-Based

All merit-based scholarships must be applied for. The scholarship decision is based on the merit of your application—including academic and ministry accomplishments, future goals, references, etc.

Ministry / Need-Based

Most (but not all) ministry scholarships also require an application. The scholarship decision focuses less on personal accomplishment and primarily on your context and financial need.

Fellowship / Research

Our Fellowships & Research-based scholarships involve ongoing responsibility during your seminary experience. These scholarships are typically smaller financially, but they are also the typical exception of scholarships that can be combined with other scholarships.

Ministry Partnerships

Gordon-Conwell has partnered with a number of church and parachurch ministries to provide a tuition discount for staff or missionaries serving with that ministry.

The Partnership Program is a unique offering through Gordon-Conwell empowering you to graduate seminary debt-free. The Partnership Program helps you to build a network of ministry partners ( individuals and churches) to fund the cost of education.

Available to both part-time and full-time students.

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Unfortunately not. Unless specifically stated (eg. Byington Scholars, Pierce Fellowship) scholarships listed here cannot be combined.

In addition to GCTS scholarships, we encourage you to investigate funding from outside sources. Third-party scholarships or funding CAN be combined with a GCTS scholarship.

We are pleased to offer a tuition discount for staff of ministry partnerships (eg. InterVarsity, Cru, Young Life). Please review the list of ministry partnerships to see if you qualify for one of these tuition discounts.

Unfortunately, these partnership tuition discounts cannot be combined with another GCTS scholarship unless explicitly (eg. the Pierce Fellowship or Byington Scholars program).