WHY CHOOSE REFORMATION INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE & SEMINARY?

WE OFFER A UNIQUE BLEND OF FLEXIBILITY, AFFORDABILITY, TIME-TESTED QUALITY, AND STREAMLINED STUDY.

FLEXIBLE:

Through RIC & RITS, students:

1. Take one course at a time, and you can take as much time on the course as you want (up to one calendar year), or finish it as quickly as you please.
2. Study completely self-paced, allowing you to take college or seminary courses without having to put undue strain on your work or family, and without having to relocate and completely uproot your life.
3. Instead, you can study from your own home and under the oversight of your home church and the elders that know you best and can best help you in your studies.

You can also enroll as a student:

1. Without having to submit references and transcripts (for non-degree studies) if you just want to take some courses with us.
2. If you then decide to pursue a degree, you can complete the full application (gathering references and transcripts) and have those grades/courses you previously completed applied as credits toward your degree.

Our doctoral program structure:

1. Hearkens back to the methods of the Reformation and Puritan era, offering a unique pathway into the ranks of the Doctorate.
2. For the student with a previous degree, our Doctorates are achieved primarily through independent research and writing/ lecturing.
3. This is different than many doctorate programs today, where you take courses and complete assignments to earn your doctorate.
4. Here at RITS, you will do independent research that is approved by a mentor from our doctoral committee, write, and then present and defend your thesis before our doctoral committee.

AFFORDABLE:

Our full-priced tuition & lecture costs:

1. Are only $75/credit for college, and $95/credit for seminary. But we have several tuition discounts for both college and seminary!
2. Lecture costs are affordable (some as little as $20 for the whole course, with college courses requiring no lecture costs).
3. Most of the required readings/books are given to you as PDF’s at no additional cost.

Our tuition discount options include:

1. A 1-year college/bachelor’s certificate program that can cost as little as $60.60 per credit/$2000 for the whole certificate.
2. A seminary partnership program for men training for the ministry who are supported by their churches! You receive a $10 per credit tuition discount from us in addition to the support coming from your church.
3. Combined with our “spotlight” courses that rotate every several months and are only $75/credit, you could complete one spotlight discounted course in a couple months, then enroll in the next “spotlight” course for $75/credit.
4. With the additional $10/credit discount for men supported by their churches, you would only pay $65/credit for these seminary courses, and likely less than $50/credit depending on how much your church is supporting you.

The high costs of other Reformed seminaries:

1. If you look around, you will find that we are more affordable than most if not all similar online/distance-based Reformed seminaries.
2. With full tuition costs of many brick and mortar seminaries exceeding $500 or even in some cases $600/credit, you can avoid serious debt by studying from a distance/online with us!
3. In fact, many of our recorded seminary lectures were recorded at some of these more expensive seminaries! So you are getting brick and mortar Reformed seminary lectures and studies at a tiny fraction of the cost, with the additional benefit of studying at your own pace, in your own home.

Our doctoral degrees are also affordable given our research-based setup:

1. Costs range from $4500 for the M.Th. to $6900 for a Ph.D.
2. Additional discounts for pre-payment. See what our graduates say in the ticker above.

TIME-TESTED QUALITY:

God’s Word is enduring, timeless truth that does not change. Therefore:

1. Our college program offers a Bachelor’s degree in education with Bible, theology, and apologetics classes added to supply a Christian worldview, which also prepares students to take state teacher certification exams and also can be helpful in attaining jobs in Christian schools.
2. Our college certificate program provides you with 33 credits containing just our Bible, theology, history, philosophy, and apologetics courses.
3. Our seminary setup is such that we do not need to change our coursework often. Much of what you study, read, and listen to is what our early graduates studied, read, and listened to as well (so you know they are endorsing much of what you yourself will be studying).
4. In fact, our M.Div. degree program has a unique feature that shows you how each course meets the requirements for the OPC’s recommended curriculum for candidates preparing for the ministry: https://opc.org/BCO/Curriculum.html
5. This feature is shown in our seminary catalog on page 28 and here online: https://reformationseminary.org/master-of-divinity/
6. Our seminary lectures were either recorded at other seminaries and used with permission (and given to you at a fraction of the cost of those seminaries today), recorded by pastors and professors delivering church lectures, or recorded specifically for our seminary program.
7. Our seminary lectures are high quality and have stood the test of time, delivered by well-respected seminary professors and pastors, and have been used for years, both with our seminary program and at the seminaries where they were first delivered and recorded.

STREAMLINED STUDY:

Our college and seminary courses cut out the busy work (see image samples below of our syllabus, study guides, and lecture transcripts) so that:

1. There is no need to take excessive notes and engage in guesswork as to what your professor wants you to know and study for on exams.
2. In our college and seminary programs, every chapter you read and every lecture you listen to will have a document called a “study guide” that will ask you questions based on your reading and listening.
3. You will answer and submit these by email to be graded by our Dean of Studies, Rev. Rudy Poettcker, who will give you personal feedback and will answer any additional questions you have via email.
4. This allows for personal interaction and feedback, which you do not always get with other online/distance based institutions.
5. These graded study guides are then used by you to, you guessed it, study for quizzes, and the quizzes are graded and then used to study and prepare for exams.
6. Additionally, all of our lectures have been transcribed for you, and will be given to you in a PDF document (see sample below).
7. So as you listen to the lectures, you can also read along with them, or just read them if you prefer.
8. If you are looking for a particular answer to a question or need to review a certain part of the lecture, the transcript and outlines of the lectures are a tremendous asset.

Flexibility, affordability, and time-tested quality are what make our college and seminary programs stand out from the rest. This is demonstrated with our college graduates who have used their degrees to be teachers and/or to take more advanced degrees, and with our seminary graduates using their degree to prepare for ordination and the ministry in Reformed denominations such as the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC), or to use their doctoral thesis to write books, lecture for courses, and contribute to Reformed academic studies.