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NON-TRADITIONAL EDUCATION - THE NEW TRADITION
You can earn your quality Bible school degree, without quitting your job or attending classes!
Those who have the luxury of plenty of extra time and a wealth of financial resources, which are required to attend a traditional college or School of Ministry, may decide to do so, even after reading this seminary catalog. But, for those of you who are already involved in earning a living, raising a family and trying to better your position, genuine concerns about the expenses and time required to complete a traditional education may be preventing you from achieving the education and success that you deserve. The great news is that you can now earn your valuable degree, in a reasonable amount of time, instead of many years of tedious study and at a savings of as much as 99%.

How is this possible? Greater Love School of Ministry, like many similar non-traditional educational institutions throughout the United States, is not concerned as much with time in the classroom as with demonstrable knowledge through evaluation of both coursework and prior experience and learning.

We will consider what you have studied throughout your life and what you may have learned through life and work experience. We will combine the results of your study in our programs as well as our evaluation of your past experience and learning, to determine what you know and understand. We then grant degrees based on our assessment of your presumed educational and practical experience together with your completed coursework and research projects at Greater Love School of Ministry.

Our seminary, in addition to coursework, will grant credit for pertinent life and work experience with educational and experiential value. Other schools that grant degrees considering life and work experience include Harvard, Yale, the School of Ministry of the State of New York, and many others.

This is a new and acceptable concept, the way of the future in advanced education.

The Value of a Non-Traditional Degree
A U.S. Government-sponsored study [1] reported on the outcomes of earning both traditional and non-traditional degrees, as reported by thousands of graduates.

Graduates reported degrees from both accredited and unaccredited schools.

The study sought answers to three primary questions:
1. Do those graduates having non-traditional degrees have a greater problem getting better jobs, or gaining admission to traditional graduate schools, than those with traditional degrees?
2. Are there significant differences between outcomes of having an unaccredited, versus an accredited, non-traditional degree?
3. Are graduates with non-traditional degrees satisfied with the outcomes of having those degrees?

Here is what was learned:

Non-Traditional Degrees and Desirable Jobs
In a survey of Human Resources officers at 81 large corporations, an overwhelming majority felt that while education was important, a non-traditional degree appeared as useful as a traditional one, even if the traditional school had “a strong reputation.” The researchers noted that these findings “run counter to some popular beliefs,” but the “survey data strongly suggest that employers, as a group, are not overly concerned with institutional reputation, and that external degree holders should not find themselves denied opportunities in employment settings because of the nature of their degree.”

[1]Sosdian, Carol P. and Shart, Laure M., The External Degree as a Credential: Graduates’ Experience in Employment and Further Study, Washington D.C., U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.