Admission Process
Instructions
Please take time to carefully read this before proceeding to fill out your application.
If you have any questions, contact the ARTS admissions office via Whatsapp or call (+256 779 692971) or email (admissions@arts.ac.ug)
Process
- Undergraduate Degree: A scanned copy of your original undergraduate degree (from a recognized university).
- Academic Transcripts: Copies of your original transcripts for your bachelors degree.
- Passport size Photo: A clear, most recent passport-size photo. It should be two by two inches. Provide a professionally taken photo with a clear background.
- Church References: Contacts of two references from your church. We will send the link for them to submit the reference forms to the contacts you provide on the application.
- Academic References: Contacts of two references from among your former lecturers. We will do the same with them. We will notify you once the references have been submitted.
- Application Fee: A mandatory non-refundable application fee of 50,000 (US$ 16.00) is to be paid to the seminary account via the payment details below. This also applies for all other fees paid to the seminary.
US Dollar Account:
Account No: 6005314702
Bank Address:
Absa Bank – Uganda
Lubowa Branch
P.O.BOX 2971
Kampala Uganda
Swift Code: BARCUGKX
Ugandan Shillings Account:
Account No: 6005100648
Bank Address:
Absa Bank – Uganda
Lubowa Branch
P.O.BOX 2971
Kampala Uganda
Swift Code: BARCUGKX
- Christian Experience Document: The Application process will require the filling out of the “Christian Experience” document. Kindly download the document by following this link download Christian experience document. Fill up the document and upload it in the application form.
Kindly ensure you have talked to your references before providing their contacts. In case you have difficulties obtaining academic references, kindly let us know.
Financial Information
Application fee: 50,000 UgX
ARTS student fees (in Uganda shillings and US dollars):
- Tuition per course, 100,000 UgX ($27.40). All courses are two credits; one exception.
- Textbooks per course, 100,000 ($27.40).
- Resident fee per week (for each course) 150,000 ($42.00).
- Annual Functional fee all programs, $42.
Dollar prices are approximate and vary according to current exchange rate.
The approximate costs of each degree program are as follows (all fees):
- Master of Divinity, per semester = $1,030. Entire degree in 6 semesters is $6,180.
- Master of Arts in Theological Studies programs:
- Per semester MATS BC = $722;
- MATS CE = $721;
- MATS PL = $772.
- Master of Arts in Biblical Counseling Per semester = $707.
- The entire MABC degree in 6 semesters is $4,246.
- Entire MATS degree in 6 semesters is $4,331; $4,329; $4,636 for MATS BC, MATS CE and MATS PL respectively.
Student Applicant’s plan
Give a brief description on how you plan to pay your ARTS fees under the “Financing your Studies at ARTS” section.
ARTS Financial Policies and Fee Payments
- Fee Clearance and Registration: First year students must clear their financial plans with the Admissions Office at least two weeks before the registration date for the prospective semester of their enrollment. You may do this via the contacts provided above. You should not arrive at the ARTS campus until this clearance is granted.
- ARTS fees are due and payable at registration or on the first day you register for a course in any semester. This includes tuition, resident fees (where applicable) and the annual functional fees. Textbook fees are to be paid upon receiving the textbooks.
- All students, new and returning, will settle accounts with the Business Office and be cleared for enrollment at registration, or on the first day the student registers for a course in any semester.
- Receipts for all payments by students are issued by the Business Manager.
- Self-pay Students and Responsibility for Fees: Fees are due at registration. A self-pay student who is unable to pay full fees must make arrangements with the Business Manager and be cleared for enrollment or must postpone enrollment.
- All Sponsored Students and Responsibility for Fees: Fees are due at registration. A sponsored or partially sponsored student who is unable to pay full fees must make arrangements with the Business Manager and be cleared for enrollment or must postpone enrollment.
- All Students and Responsibility for Textbook Fees: Textbooks per course, are approximately 100,000 ($27.40). All students unable to pay for textbooks (self-pay or partially sponsored students) may be approved by the Business manager to enroll, but will not be approved to receive textbooks without textbooks payments. In this case, the student will use textbooks in the Library, which may not be removed from the Library.
- Private Sponsorships and Student Responsibility to Notify Private Sponsors of Due Dates for Fees: Fees are due at registration. A private sponsor pays the scholarship directly to the ARTS Bank account or through the student. Such a student is required to inform the sponsor of the date of registration.
