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The Digital Campus Experience

BEYOND ONLINE EDUCATION

Enhanced Online Education Built Around Your Needs

Personal Ministry Training without Leaving Your Current Ministry Context

Prospective seminary students often grapple with balancing academic pursuits, family, career, and ministry commitments. Southern Evangelical Seminary pioneers online education, offering live-streaming and asynchronous options that bring the classroom to your living room. Student feedback highlights the importance of maintaining connections, fostering an intimate community. Our digital campus experience goes beyond traditional online learning, providing opportunities to connect, collaborate, and grow in Christ. As an SES student, you’re ahead of the curve, experiencing all the benefits of a traditional campus in our digital environment. Join us where flexibility meets community, shaping your seminary journey beyond online education.

Class Formats that Fit Your Priorities​

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Live-Streaming

Approx. 60% of courses are offered as live-streams each semester with the streams also available for on-demand access throughout the course

Asynchronous Format

Other courses are offered as recorded lectures you watch at your convenience with extra live-streaming professor interaction built in

digital first

Live-Streaming

Approx. 60% of courses are offered as live-streams each semester with the streams also available for on-demand access throughout the course

Asynchronous Format

Other courses are offered as recorded lectures you watch at your convenience with extra live-streaming professor interaction built in

15-Week Semesters

Most of our courses follow the traditional format and meet one night per week for 15 weeks (we do offer a few 8-week courses at times)

One-Week Modules

Offered throughout the year, these live-streaming modules have all lectures completed in one week with the remaining 14 weeks for assignments

15-Week Semesters

Most of our courses follow the traditional format and meet one night per week for 15 weeks (we do offer a few 8-week courses at times)

One-Week Modules

Offered throughout the year, these live-streaming modules have all lectures completed in one week with the remaining 14 weeks for assignments

A Digital-First Approach

At SES, we defy the slow pace of change seen in many institutions. Recognizing the evolving needs of today’s seminarians and future evangelists, apologists, and educators, we champion a digital-first approach to online education. Our substantial investment in a tailored technology framework ensures that virtually everything you need for online classes, research, and community engagement is seamlessly integrated into our customized Canvas platform. Unlike others who adopted a templated online education experience, we spent years curating a unique assortment of technology, providing a truly immersive digital campus aligned with our educational philosophy. Join us where innovation meets purpose in the realm of online education.

Virtual Community Allows You to Be a Real-Time Part of:

  • Student Government Association
  • Chapel
  • Bible Studies
  • Student Clubs/Activities
  • Guest Speaker Events
  • Small Groups
  • Book Discussions
  • Conferences
  • And More

A World-Class Theological Library

Your work and ministry will be profoundly shaped by the research and investment you make in your seminary training. SES is able to offer our students a set of virtual keys to one of the most remarkable theological resources ever created: the Digital Theological Library. Founded in 2016, SES is one of just over 30 institutional members who fund and support this groundbreaking archive of religious studies and theology resources.

As a student, you will have online, worldwide access to more than:

  • 620,000 E-Books
  • 150 databases
  • 35,000 journal titles
  • 50 million full-text, peer-reviewed articles
  • 2.6 million full-text dissertations and theses
  • 71,000 multi-disciplinary videos  

Highlights from the Digital Theological Library include:

  • Every Bible commentary that is available in a digital format
  • All JSTOR, Project Muse, and ProQuest databases in religious studies
  • Loeb Classical Library
    Psychology and Counseling databases
  • E-Book titles from Duke, Harvard, de Gruyter, Cambridge, Bloomsbury, and Taylor & Francis
  • Non-English databases in Chinese, Korean, German, Spanish, and French

Additional resources are frequently added, included many required textbook and readings, thus saving you time and money

See the Vital Need for Apologetics-Focused Education

Engaging real-world issues for the sake of the Gospel

  • The Denial of Objectivity
  • The Adoption of ‘Wokeness’ Ideology
  • The Weakening of Biblical Inerrancy

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One of the most pivotal and intriguing moments in human history took place in mid-15th century Germany.  I have always wondered what it would have been like to be there for the Gutenberg moment, when the printing press made its dramatic entry into the world. Everything changed.
 
Once the printing press was invented, making mass production of books possible, the revolution we know as the Reformation was only a question of when, where, and who? When and where would it burst forth? Who would be the key players?
 
The world is in the midst of a similar “Gutenberg moment” when everything changes. The COVID-19 Pandemic has greatly accelerated the revolutionary shift to an online, digital world. Everything has changed and nowhere more so than in education. From grad schools to grade schools, there has been a frantic rush to adapt to online learning.
 
We did not know the pandemic was coming, but God did. We believe He providentially prepared us for this moment. We have been on the cutting edge of online education for years, pioneering the live-streaming of classes in “real time” to students both here and abroad in order to reach as many as possible.
 
Here at SES we believe our digital-first approach is our “Gutenberg moment.”
 

AN IMMERSIVE DIGITAL CAMPUS EXPERIENCE

This past fiscal year saw a 59% increase in new applications and a 54% increase in new student enrollments and shows no signs of slowing down. We believe this is merely a harbinger of a flood-tide of new students if we can find the resources to meet this need. The responses from our students to our digital campus experience have been very affirming. Students tell us that the live-streaming format accentuates professor availability, class discussions, and online forums with fellow classmates.
 
Our newly added Digital Theological Library gives our students access to over 650,000 eBooks, over 35,000 journal titles, over 50 million peer-reviewed articles, and much more. Additional resources are currently being added to our digital campus that will further facilitate the spiritual growth and educational experience of SES students.
 
We are greatly expanding our digital footprint both here and abroad. More and more students now attend SES from all across the world, from places like Jordan, New Zealand, and South Africa. Many of these students, especially from abroad, cannot afford even our very modest tuition. Please, prayerfully consider partnering with us to meet these compelling needs so that together we can train up even more apologists, evangelists, pastors, and teachers for His Kingdom’s sake.
 

REDEEMING THE TIME

Thank you for your support in helping us to meet this unprecedented opportunity and to “redeem” it for God’s Kingdom (Eph. 5:16). We know that God put SES here to serve students and to serve His church. We are seeking to be responsive to the needs and to maximize the number of men and women who can avail themselves of our integrated approach to theology, philosophy, and apologetics via our immersive digital campus. Yes, it has been a difficult year for so many, but we hope and pray you are as excited as we are to seize this moment in history and claim it for God’s glory.
 

In His service,

Dr. Richard D. Land, SES President

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