Equipping women to serve Christ
Mary Andrews College is unique in Australia with our focus on equipping women, specialising in pastoral care and mental health.
For over 130 years, Mary Andrews College has been training women in the Bible to equip them for serving the church, the community and the world. If you are looking to grow in your knowledge and ability to live out the gospel in your daily life with God in the service of others, we can help you decide on a pathway of study that is suitable for you.
Choose to study at Mary Andrews
At Mary Andrews College, we recognise that choosing to study at Bible college is an important decision. We hope that as you are prayerfully considering taking this step, our website will help to answer questions you might have about how study will fit into your life and how it can help equip you for the future.
If you’d like to learn more about study at Mary Andrews, or have questions about courses, our Dean of Students, Rev. Kate Snell, would love to speak with you and guide you through your options.
Real-time, real community at Mary Andrews College
We believe that studying God’s word is best done in community, in real-time. Expanding our courses to run online has given us an incredible opportunity to reach students all over the country, but our dedication to ‘live’ classes hasn’t changed. We still believe meeting together in live hybrid classes, to ask questions of your lecturer and interact with your peers, is the best way to learn.
Courses
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The Mary Andrews College Certificate in Biblical Studies and Pastoral Care
The perfect course for those who don’t have previous theological training but want to develop their Christian understanding and pastoral care. All units seek to integrate what is taught with how we live as followers of Jesus Christ and how we care for others.
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Diploma Courses
Diploma-level study gives students foundational level knowledge and skills in the Bible, theology, and in discipleship & pastoral care skills. This level of study is suitable for women who wish to gain a deeper understanding of how the Bible shapes our ministry practice in the local church and wider community.
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Graduate Certificate
The Graduate Certificate of Pastoral Care for Mental Health is a professional development course for ministry workers and healthcare professionals who wish to gain a theological framework for understanding mental health issues and wellbeing. This Graduate Certificate is made up of four 12cp units where each unit includes 36 hours of lectures.
Studies at Mary Andrews College are designed to form you theologically and equip you practically.
There are many opportunities for women to be equipped at Mary Andrews College, from Certificate level study through to Graduate level study.
At every level of study, we encourage each woman to integrate what she is learning from the Scriptures with her character, convictions, and skills so that the whole of who we are and how we serve is being shaped by God’s word in the Bible.
News and Stories
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Jennifer
“Once I started at Mary Andrews and experienced the combination of practical skills and biblical knowledge that we learn – I was hooked and kept adding on more subjects because I wanted to keep learning!”
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Bec
“Mary Andrews College has really helped me in pastoral care: in helping people who are facing really difficult times in their life, or who might be experiencing conflict - to understand how to listen well and how to help them in that time.”
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Annette
“If you’ve never thought of studying, I want to encourage you to consider studying in this season, and if you are thinking of studying, let me encourage you to get in touch with Mary Andrews College because they really equip you for life and for ministry. Go to an information session, ask questions, get connected. Mary Andrews College is the one.”
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Robyn
“All of life is ministry. And that’s the wonderful thing about Mary Andrews College: it just equips you for life. It puts everything else into perspective, it brings it all together and just gives everything so much more purpose.”
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Janice
“I actually thought I was going to retire, whatever that looks like! And I thought ‘I know what I’ll do, I’ll go back to study’. I started with just one subject and I just loved it so much that I was hooked after that! I think I fell in love with Mary Andrews College.”
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Lucy
“Dip your toe in and audit a class then take the plunge. Before you know it, you’re getting a diploma!”
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Ella
“Learning from other women is so valuable. That’s been something that I’ve really enjoyed at Mary Andrews.”
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Joanna
“I thought ‘why not use this time to get to know the Bible better, to be equipped to help people to understand it, and be equipped to care for people?’”
