Lead and Serve in Your Field
Advance Your Calling in Graduate Studies at North Central University
Advance Your Future at NCU
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Discover the NCU Difference
Flexible Online Learning: Complete your master’s degree online with the support and flexibility you need to balance career, education, family, and community commitments.
Concentration Tracks for Your Calling: Choose from three master’s degree programs: an M.A. in Biblical Theology, M.A. in Strategic Leadership, or M.A. in Spiritual Formation, and pursue a specialization that fits your goals and experience.
Supportive, Close-Knit Community: Live, learn, and grow in your faith in an online community where you can build lifelong friendships with peers and mentors.
Affordable Private Education: Alumni and Assemblies of God employee discounts make this graduate education at an accredited Christian university even more affordable.
Why Choose North Central University?
Faith and Learning Combined: At NCU, you’ll have opportunities to think critically about your faith, ask deep questions, and live with compassion in every moment on campus.
Accessible, Affordable Academics: To make private education accessible, 100% of our residential undergraduate students receive financial aid. Scholarships and grants are available to all eligible students, and we offer online programs.
Vibrant Multicultural Experience: Students, faculty, and staff from 11 countries and 39 states — and counting — walk in faith together, supporting, mentoring, and celebrating each other.
Prepared to Serve and Lead: Whether you’re called to ministry, business, education, or the trades, you’ll graduate ready to make an impact professionally and spiritually.
Where Faith Meets Opportunity
As a private Christian university located in downtown Minneapolis, North Central University provides unmatched access to a thriving urban economy and opportunities for success. Our community is passionate about helping students grow academically, spiritually, and professionally so they can live out their purpose and make a difference in the world.

The degree was not a ‘stepping stone,’ per se, but rather a honing of my skills to help me lead where I am planted.”
Christopher V.
Accreditation and Accolades
- Accredited by the Higher Learning Commission
- Ranked #5 in Social Mobility by U.S. News & World Report
- Ranked in the Top 23 Most Affordable Colleges in Minnesota by Best Value Schools
