Academics

The GTU provides students with the opportunity for intensive academic study of many religious traditions including forms of Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Jainism, and Judaism, as well as interdisciplinary topics such as art and religion or theology and science.

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Unique Degree Concentrations

Ranging from Aesthetics to Yoga

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Core Doctoral Faculty Members

From diverse faiths and fields

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Faculty Across the Consortium

To guide your academic career

The proximity of our member schools, academic centers, and interdisciplinary programs creates a dynamic intellectual community that draws scholars from around the world. Students entering the PhD or MA program benefit from the GTU’s diverse, multi-religious environment and draw on the depth of faculty expertise available among the more than 100 full-time faculty members across this diverse consortium. 

Explore Our Doctoral Program

Our PhD curriculum builds on the ecumenical, interreligious, and interdisciplinary strengths of the GTU, offering rich opportunities for both specialization and cross-disciplinary study.

Discover Our MA Program

The GTU Common Master of Arts provides exciting opportunities to explore theology and religion in response to the challenges posed by contemporary cultures. 

Departments and Concentrations

GTU degree programs feature more than thirty unique concentrations - from Aesthetics to Yoga Studies - grouped into four interdisciplinary departments.

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Brown Bag Lunch Talk with Mina Yi

How can modern art create moments of spiritual encounter by deepening our engagement with the material world around us?

Mina Yi, a third-year GTU doctoral student, explores this question through the lens of modernist abstract landscape art. She investigates how artistic and aesthetic experience...

Doug Adams Gallery
12:00pm to 1:00pm

Feminist Theology and Social Justice in Islam

Join the BJRT for an online event that advocates for the centrality of feminist theology and social justice in academia, and celebrates the historically constant leading role of women upon the intellectual and material fronts of liberation. 

Online Event
5:15pm

Mothering: An Interreligious Conversation on the Maternal

9:00am to 5:00pm