Overview

Chaplain ministry is growing worldwide as more organizations, corporations, and institutions discover the value that chaplains bring to their people and mission. This terminal degree will equip you to discern and analyze the spiritual dynamics of your environment.

Features

You will partner with organizational leadership, lead other chaplains in ministry, and build and evaluate effective chaplain ministry programs. You’ll also be qualified to bring these enhanced skills into all functional areas of chaplaincy such as healthcare, corporations, sports teams, military, education, community, public safety, crisis response, prisons, and more.

This Chaplain Ministry and Leadership degree at Regent University will prepare you to strategically expand your missional ministry in ways the church is otherwise limited. Moreover, Regent’s D.Min. program is among the first in the nation to receive approval by the ATS to offer the degree completely online with no residency.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Advising Leaders

Multicultural Ministry

Leading Chaplain Teams

Ministry In Secular Settings

Multifaith Ministry

Key information

Duration

Part-time
- 84 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-05-11 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-05-01 00:00:00
Starting 2026-06-22 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-06-12 00:00:00
Starting 2026-08-25 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-08-15 00:00:00
Starting 2026-10-27 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-10-17 00:00:00
Starting 2027-01-12 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-01-07 00:00:00
Starting 2027-03-16 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-03-06 00:00:00

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English

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Credits

36 SCH

Delivered

Online

Campus Location

Virginia Beach, United States

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

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Other requirements

General requirements

To be considered for acceptance into the Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) program at the School of Divinity, an applicant must have completed either of the following:

Master of Divinity (M.Div.) degree (or equivalent theological master’s degree of at least 72 credit hours) from a regionally accredited, post-secondary institution or an institution accredited by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA).

M.Div. equivalency of 72 credit hours of graduate-level coursework, with at least 48 credit hours being graduate-level seminary credits.

Applicants who possess a master’s degree of at least 36 credit hours in an area of ministerial studies (e.g. Regent’s M.A. in Spiritual Formation or M.A. in Church Leadership) are invited to apply and will be reviewed for admissions consideration on a case-by-case basis.

Tuition Fees

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3445 USD / year

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3445 USD / year

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3445 USD / year

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