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 Now Accepting Admissions for Spring 2025
Welcome to the McDowell Bible College (MBC) website and open the door to your ministry future. Most of our students pay little or no tuition as we are an institution dedicated to training low income Christians in ministry around the world. Click on the APPLY button today and complete the form to attend MBC. There is no obligation to pay anything until your admissions is accepted and we determine your income based scholarship status.
McDowell Bible College (MBC) is dedicated to our Lord Jesus Christ and to His service. As the name implies, we are a bible-oriented college and seminary, and the curriculum is designed for Christian students who do not have major disagreements with our doctrinal statement (listed on the About Us page). They say that nothing is FREE, and they are right. Although we have free tuition for lower income students and lower tuition for all, we demand the same work as most institutions of higher learning (and more than some). Our students and alumni appreciate their training enough to donate to the college whenever they can in addition to our requirements.
McDowell Bible College is recognized by the Association of Bible Colleges as an accredited educational institution meeting their standards for certification and accreditation. This is not a degree mill. If you are looking for an easy ride, we are not your school. Our academic standards are high and equivalent or exceeding the level of many if not most bible colleges and seminaries with on-line programs. You will be proud of the certificate or diploma you get at McDowell Bible College as it prepares you with the knowledge you need to conduct your ministry. (See About Us page for more information on state licensure exemption and accreditation and to view our certificates.)
You can complete your programs much faster now. MBC has gone to four 12-week full semester terms allowing our students to complete a certificate in a year or less, a 2-year program in a little over a year, or a 4-year program in less than three years if attending full time.* Our school was founded to help those who fall into one or more of the following categories:
• Current or future church or nonprofit religious organization ministers, staff or leaders who wish certification in their fields without taking the time earn a 2 or 4-year diploma. We offer certificates in Ministry, Biblical Studies, and Leadership and Administration for Churches and Nonprofits which require only 12 courses that can be accomplished in about a year or so if attending full-time.*
• College students who wish to earn a diploma related to service in churches or religious non-profit organizations. We currently offer two-year or four-year diploma programs in Ministry, Biblical Studies, and Leadership and Administration for Churches and Nonprofits.
• College graduates with degrees that required at least 120 semester hours who wish to earn a graduate diploma related to service in churches or religious non-profit organizations. We currently offer the Master of Ministry and Master of Leadership and Administration for Churches and Nonprofits.
• Students who cannot afford the high cost of college or do not want to encumber themselves with a large amount of educational loan debt. Our tuition is currently free or a very low cost for low income students and lower than most for all others. Yet, we provide a quality, full-term education and we are probably the only school that includes a better than state of the art on-line classroom experience for no additional fee. Others charge as much $100 or more per course for online fees alone. Our schedules for admissions and other fees are also income graduated to allow those to attend who otherwise could not.
• Students who need a low cost quality education. We do ask for students who can afford it to donate each term to help us continue this ministry, but otherwise it is indeed very low cost to most of our students. We currently have many students paying no tuition due to the generous donations to scholarships and your donation will help us serve more.
* Actual time to complete a program depends on course availability, scheduling and your academic progress.
Interactive Online Classroom -
We have a proprietary online classroom presentation system that is as user friendly as it is informing. Other on-line colleges and universities have to pass on to students hundreds of thousands of dollars in expense purchasing an external on-line classroom system such Blackboard or another system, charging additional fees up to $100 or more per class. There are no such fees at MBC. McDowell Bible College has our own in-house software and IT staff. Our online classroom experience includes pages where the following activities take place:
• Classroom Office The professor will post messages for the class here, so check regularly to get the latest update. This is also where you can interact with the instructor by email.
• Syllabus The automated course syllabus is a complete guide to your course is posted here. Course requirements, assignments and exams are detailed as well as policies and procedures for the course. You will find a weekly calendar matrix of weekly lessons and readings you need to study, as well as the assignments required for that week. It is topped off by course goals and institutional requirements for the course and students.
• Assignments This page provides the dated weekly lesson folders for the class, within which you will find links to each lesson s requirements for that week to include: lesson description, readings required, links to articles, additional documents, or other resources, class lecture(s), as well as quizzes, exams or other class assignments that need to be turned in for that week. MBC has determined that visual videos or lectures, presentations and graphics help you to better understand the material and we place everything you need for the lesson in the folder so that requirements are easy to understand and to access. Therefore, we offer many video lectures and audio-visual aids to learning for each and every course, not always just a reading assignment every week. We also encourage students to contact their instructors or faculty advisor by email when help is needed.
• Gradebook As your grades become available for quizzes, exams or assignments, they are privately posted here with links to their graded answers and instructor comments.
• Forum Here is where students can post discussion assignments and both students and faculty can interact during these classroom discussions.
• Library This links you to the Dollie Mae Rush McDowell Library for McDowell Bible College. This library includes links to many E-Books, as well as links to scholarly resources and journals. We also have a listing of our hard copy library on campus.
• Transcript Your unofficial online transcript is available free at any time after you have registered for or completed courses at MBC.
• MBC Home Return to the main website for McDowell Bible College.
Become a Student Today!
We hope you will join us in the coming year for this program of quality, on-line education that is very reasonably priced, demanding (but fair), and can be completed by anyone with reasonable scholastic effort. We will provide you with the tools you need for your area of study that is supported by in-house programming sometimes better than state of the art. Our in-house IT staff has decades of programming and IT experience and are responsive to problems. Our tuition is low, so that is why a quality education with McDowell Bible College is not only a good deal, but a comparison is almost non-existent. McDowell Bible College is now set up on four 12-week full semester terms each year, Winter (January-March), Spring (April-June), Summer (July-September) and Fall (October-December). Before one of those term deadlines end, click Apply and become a student at MBC and you will never regret it.
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