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I have looked into the U of Kansas a bit myself. They don't offer a ton of information about PhD placement on their website. The only info that I have found was in the "Alumni and Friends" section of the religious studies department page. It mentioned three 2013 grads of the M.A. program who are currently pursuing doctorates at Duke, Syracuse, and the U of Indiana. The three examples given there would indicate that their placement record is at least decent, but it is a very small, subjective (and perhaps selective) sample of information. I looked for the students named on KU's site on the websites of the programs that they are currently attending. The only student with extra information on their grad program's website is the who is attending Syracuse. The only substantive information that it mentioned was that she graduated with a B.A. in religion from the University of Arizona in 2005 and then receive her M.A. from Kansas in 2013. I'm sure that others know more about their placement record than I have mentioned, but that is all that I could find by web searching.

Hello, all, I am starting to look into masters programs with emphases in New Testament and early Christianity. I will be applying for fall 2016, so I have some time to make my application decisions (obviously). My main question concerns the credibility of British masters programs. I have some family connections in the Aberdeen, Scotland area that (if I am admitted) would make the masters programs at the U of Aberdeen quite affordable. They are willing to cover my living expenses, and even throw some money at my tuition. My main purpose for applying would be to give myself a good, affordable option to continue my studies if I don't receive a good funding offer here in the U.S. For those of you who are already out in the world of top grad programs, do you think that a MPhil or MSt from the U of Aberdeen be a good step toward receiving funding from an American PhD program in NT/EC? I am willing to do a second M* something here in the U.S., but I am curious if any of you think that the Aberdeen degree would be a good thing, or just a fickle waste of my time. (I should add that I will have two years of Greek as an undergrad. So I will have some of my language work done, but obviously not all of it.)