guruofgreatness

Thank you Westcott. I would certainly love to return to Duke as a PhD candidate but because of how few students they admit every year, it’s certainly not something I can count on. I have about 6-7 schools in mind that I plan on applying to for my PhD. And yes, there is a particular scholar I wish to study under for my S.T.M at Yale. I suppose my logic is that when a school sees that I graduated from Duke with my M.Div and then Yale for my S.T.M, it would make me appear to be a more well rounded candidate in the sense that my studies have been done under a variety of different scholars from different schools. I could be way off base but I just think it would make me a stronger candidate than if I just stayed at Duke for an additional year under the same people for a Th.M

I'm currently a M.Div at Duke Divinity school and will be applying to school for the S.T.M as preparatory work for a PHD. I have a New Testament focus and Duke obviously has great New Testament scholars , but I'm wondering if it would help me in order to get into good PHD program later if I went somewhere else (such as Yale) for my S.T.M in order to diversify my education. Any thoughts?