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, your diocese or district may have.  Leeds University accepts life-experience and professional experience as well as formal qualifications for its entry requirements.  Our Director of Studies will be happy to discuss this with you at interview.  Where necessary, access courses prior to enrolment can be arranged to build up confidence in academic study and address other outstanding issues.

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.

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 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 you will need for ordination in your church.  The YMC course is designed to offer a training for all aspects of ordained ministry.