PACCS offers both the Ph.D. and the Th.D. degree. Both are advanced academic degrees intended to prepare students for professional careers in teaching, writing, and scholarship, as well as for leadership opportunities with religious organizations, social service agencies, foundations, museums, libraries, publishing, and in educational institutions.
 

The PACCS has the faculty and research resources to offer a distinctively interdisciplinary approach to scholarship within one’s specialized area of study. Doctoral students also have the option to pursue an Allied Field during the course of the program, enabling them to establish a foundation of credentials in a discipline beyond the primary Area of Study.
 

The Ph.D. program places theological or religious studies in the context of university research disciplines, and students are required to engage such a discipline in order to provide an additional critical and theoretical dimension to their work. Most students pursue this dimension of their program by working with a faculty member from the Trinity Graduate School of Apologetics and Theology, India.  

The Th.D. program has a specific theological emphasis, and is designed for students whose intellectual goals will gain focus through a theologically-defined academic lens.Applicants to the doctoral program must have a Master of Divinity, or a Master of Arts degree in Theology, Religion, or a closely related field, and a bachelor’s degree from a fully accredited institution.