Entry Requirements

YMC is open to those with few academic credentials, as well as those holding higher degrees or professional/vocational qualifications.  The course has included some who left school at 14, others with several higher degrees ..... and everything in between.

Although YMC has no formal entry requirements for ordinands, your diocese or district may have.  The YMC has academic routes suited to all ordinands.  The precise route will be discussed at interview and will depend on prior educational and professional experience.   All independent students are encouraged to contact the YMC office for details.  References will be requested from appropriate parties to back up the applications of independent students.

At your initial interview, we will want to ensure that you can take advantage of a course of continuing education, that you have the necessary motivation for the work required, and are able to attend appropriate weeknight and weekend sessions.  You will need certain skills of reading and organisation to cope with the demands of private study, and to express yourself coherently, on paper and in speech.  If you need special help here, it can be arranged.  You will also need to be familiar with the use of word processing, using e-mail and the internet. 

In our experience, wherever there is a lively, inquiring faith supported by the motivation engendered among those pursuing a vocation, YMC proves to be an insightful, expansive and professionally robust preparation for ordained and lay ministry.  It also assists students to establish disciplines of prayerful, reflective spirituality and practices of life-long learning capable of sustaining fruitful and fulfilling Christian service. 

All who complete the Course receive a YMC certificate which is validated by the Churches Validation Framework on behalf of all the sponsoring churches.  The certificate is all that those selected will need for ordination in your church.  The YMC course is designed to offer a training for all aspects of ordained ministry.