25 Master's degrees offered by the university

The Buddhist Studies at Graduate Theological Union are well balanced with anthropological, cultural, and area studies perspectives.

The Comparative Theology at Graduate Theological Union is inspired by an increasingly pluralistic global context that brings diverse religious worlds into contact, this concentration prepares students to engage in the study of the distinct theologies, practices, and ethics of different religions from a dialogical perspective.

The Liturgical Studies program at Graduate Theological Union will have students engage in critical research into the historical evolution of Christian rites; theological reflection about Christian ritual practice (historical and contemporary); and analysis/interpretation of the ritual practices and embodied faith expressions of particular liturgical traditions.

The Islamic Sacred Texts program at Graduate Theological Union will have students work to develop competencies in the study of the Qur’an and Prophetic Tradition.

Students in this Jewish Studies concentration at Graduate Theological Union study Jewish history, culture, and literature from antiquity until the present. 

The Anthropology of Religion at Graduate Theological Union will have students study cultural contexts, beginning with conceptualizing “religion” itself as the product of Christian, European, and colonial genealogies in order to understand this concept’s impact on the world.

The Theology and Science program at Graduate Theological Union has the primary goal to promote creative mutual interaction between natural science and academic theology.

The Rabbinic Literature at Graduate Theological Union will have students work to develop competencies in broad-ranging aspects of rabbinic literature.

The Aesthetics at Graduate Theological Union will have students apply the resources of religious and theological traditions to the study of beauty – in its enrapturing power, in its perception as graceful manifestation of divine truth and goodness, and in its presentation as art.

The Art and Religion at Graduate Theological Union will have students focus on the theological, cultural, and spiritual meanings expressed by, and experienced through, visual, plastic, performative, liturgical, and ritual arts across local and global religious contexts.

The Christian Studies program at Graduate Theological Union will have students engage in the ongoing task of interpreting Christian belief in response to modern and post-modern cultures.

The Ethics program at Graduate Theological Union prepares students to contextualize the major figures in the development of ethics and social theory, to interrelate ethics with a secondary concentration, to do research, and to construct an ethical argument.

The Religion and Literature program at Graduate Theological Union will have students study literature, literary theory, and religious studies, paying special attention to the intersections among these disciplines.

The New Religious Movements at Graduate Theological Union will have students study New Religious Movements as organizational movements, religious ideas, and distinctive spiritualties.

Students in this Islamic Studies concentration at Graduate Theological Union engage in the interdisciplinary study, research, and teaching of Islam in its theological, historical, cultural, and comparative contexts, with a focus on Islamic texts in contemporary contexts, Islam as a lived tradition, and the global expressions of Muslim diversity, both past and present.

Students in the Hindu and Yoga Studies concentration at Graduate Theological Union focus on the history of Hindu thought traditions and their cultural expressions. 

The Practical Theology program at Graduate Theological Union is taught in an interreligious, multi-racial, and multicultural context.

The Comparative Religion at Graduate Theological Union encourages the joint study of different religious traditions by exploring their fundamental themes, beliefs, and concerns, their principal figures and texts, and their variety of rituals and practices.

The Philosophical Theology program at Graduate Theological Union will have students employ various philosophical traditions and resources to address theological questions and to explore the philosophical presuppositions and implications of theological doctrines.

The Islamic Philosophy and Theology program at Graduate Theological Union focuses on the systematic study of the Muslim intellectual tradition devoted to explorations of divine revelation, religious belief, and philosophical developments.