Accreditation and honesty

The school is not accredited. Its programs are church-recognized training, not federally or nationally recognized degrees, and its credits may not transfer to other schools.

What this means

• The school does not claim accreditation or approval from any accrediting agency, and it will not make that claim.
• Its degrees (the programs built on the curriculum of The Log College & Seminary, from the ATS to the ThD, and the school’s own Master and Doctor of Theology in Reformed Studies) are training recognized by churches that know the school’s standard. Whether a church, presbytery or classis accepts them is that body’s decision.
• The certificates and the diploma are not degrees.
• The LCS Bachelor of Divinity is a professional degree for men over 30 without a prior degree; it does not admit to further graduate study.

Before any degree is awarded

The school will confirm the rules of the state or country where it is incorporated for offering degrees under these names before it awards any of them.

Why the school works this way

Accreditation would bind the curriculum, the faculty and the cost of study to outside standards. The school instead keeps every required lecture and reading free, holds its teaching to the confessions, and shows its whole curriculum in the open so that churches can judge it for themselves.