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School of Professional and Graduate Studies

Welcome to the School of Professional and Graduate Studies  where we are fulfilling Taylor's mission by ‘ministering the redemptive love of Jesus Christ to a world in need' through involvement in local businesses, schools, and not-for-profit organizations.  This school, created in 2008, consists of five (5) undergraduate departments and the graduate school that oversees four (4) programs.  The undergraduate areas prepare our Taylor students in fields of business, education, physical education and human performance, social work, professional writing (NEW! 2009 Fall semester). 

Our Graduate School programs include master's degrees in Religious Studies, Higher Education, Environmental Science, MBA (Masters of Business Administration), and the Transition to Teaching program.  These programs include traditional semester-based programs in Upland as well as innovative online/residency programs offered at multiple locations. 

Faculty and students in the School of Professional and Graduate Studies frequently partner with local organizations to conduct research and provide consultative services and technical assistance.  The school is striving to apply theoretical and research findings in ways that improve the community, organizations, and ministries across the country and around the world.

 Please join us in experiencing excellent preparation for the professional world by exploring the majors and minors within the school.  Graduate options may resonate with the call of God on your life to prepare you beyond the undergraduate level.  Several of our masters programs have been designed to enable TU students to complete their graduate degree after just one additional year of study beyond the baccalaureate level.

Academic Departments

Graduate Programs

Graduate Life Together Covenant

The Taylor University Life Together Covenant (LTC) is intended to foster Christ-centered community. This covenant sets forth the principles and guidelines that have allowed Taylor University and its students, faculty and staff to enjoy an atmosphere that encourages integrity in faith and relationship. Throughout most of Taylor's history the LTC has governed a relatively homogeneous student body of full-time, traditional age, on-campus students. However, with the addition of adult and graduate programs the student body now contains a significant number of adult learners, who may be at different developmental levels and who interact with the university community in ways that are different than the traditional undergraduate.

Graduate students, like all members of the community, are expected to strive to meet the Biblical Expectations outlined in the Life Together Covenant. The University expectations described in the Covenant are not intended to measure spirituality or to promote legalism. Nevertheless, Galatians 5:13-14 reminds us that while we were called to be free, our freedom is best used when we serve one another in love (Romans 14; I Corinthians 8, 10:23-33). Graduate students will be expected to uphold the University Expectations while they are on campus, during off-campus class sessions, on other off-campus university-sponsored events, in all University buildings and vehicles, and in the presence of traditional age Taylor undergraduate students. Choices made outside of these locales or situations will be left to the discretion of the graduate student, being mindful of their representative role of the University.