Here is a list of the largest seminaries in North America.
This information was gleaned from the Association for Theological Schools website. They publish the pdf document 2005-2006 Annual Data Tables which is below:
Download 20050620annual20data20tables1.pdf
and the data for every school is on TABLE 2.15 HEAD COUNT AND FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT ENROLLMENT BY DEGREE CATEGORY – ALL MEMBER SCHOOLS.
Thanks to my friend Brad Brummeler, (like me a Taylor University and Regent College grad and now a Ph.D. student in philosophy at Baylor), for helping me compile this data.
1. Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary – 2062
2. Fuller Theological Seminary – 1981
3. New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary – 1567
T4. Asbury Theological Seminary – 1315T4. Southern Baptist Theological Seminary – 1312
6. Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary – 1181
7. Dallas Theological Seminary – 1122
8. Trinity Evangelical Divinity School – 910
9. Bethel Seminary at Bethel University – 833
10. Concordia Seminary (MO) – 789
11. Reformed Theological Seminary – 672
12. Princeton Theological Seminary – 651
13. Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary – 618
T14. Interdenominational Theological Center – 593
T14. Luther Seminary – 593
T16. Claremont School of Theology – 557
T16. Alliance Theological Seminary – 556
18. Duke Divinity School – 525
19. Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary – 503
See my take on how to choose a seminary and a list of seminaries where evangelicals attend at my post Seminaries for Evangelicals.
Comments
6 responses to “What are the largest seminaries in North America?”
Interesting to see the list. I think it would also be helpful to have some kind of guide with seminaries put in categories: Evangelical, Liberal, Dispensationalist, etc. and to what extent other views are welcome and represented in each.
I would also like to see data that was not just from ATS. There are a whole slew of Seminaries which are Regionally accredited, but not ATS: ATS is not the “gold standard” that it once was.
The Tridentine model of seminaries has since been adopted and adapted by other Christian denominations as well as by modern American Judaism, though now in a more open fashion than the Tridentine model and often without the Catholic emphasis on the pre-requisite study of philosophy and the Catholic requirement to live on campus within the Christian community of the seminary
You left out Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. It should be near the top of the list.
I think your information on the largest seminary is now outdated; if you check, you may find Southern Baptist Theology Seminary in Louisville, KY is now the largest;
thanks
Mack Tomlinson
You can look up the new statistics:
http://www.ats.edu/Resources/PublicationsPresentations/Documents/AnnualDataTables/2010-11AnnualDataTables.pdf
p.11
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
HC / FTE
2,525 / 1,365
p. 8
Fuller Theological Seminary
3,918 / 1,877