Scott Christian University
Scott Christian University formally Scott Theological College, was established in 1962 as the national theological College of the Africa Inland Church Kenya to provide training for church ministries at an advanced academic level. The college was named in memory of Peter Cameron Scott who led the African Inland Mission in Kenya in 1895 which developed Africa Inland Church as one of its ministries.
Scott grew and progressively upgraded its academic standards. In 1972, the entry requirement was raised to a minimum of a Secondary School Certificate, Level Three. Further upgrading of standards was done in 1982 with the introduction of a Bachelor of Theology (B.Th.) whereby the program entry requirement was raised to a university level. This development was made possible through an arrangement with Ontrario Bible College, an accredited degree-granting college in Toronto, Canada. The first B.Th. Students graduated from college in 1986.
In December 1979, Scott received its accreditation from Accrediting Council for Theological Education in Africa (ACTEA). It was the first post-secondary theological institution in Africa to receive such accreditation. In 1986, full accreditation of Scott’s Bachelor of Theology degree program was granted by ACTEA.
Scott was granted a charter by the Government of Kenya in 1997 after reworking on its academic programs and operations. Its Bachelor of Theology degree was accredited by the Commission for University Education as a university-level degree at the same time. The institution was granted permission to change its name to Scott Christian University by the Commission for University Education on March 23, 2012.
Scott Christian University has subsequently expanded its academic offering to enhance a greater scope of service and ministry for the transformation of society. The University currently has three schools which include; School of Theology, School of Professional Studies and School of Education.
Vission
“A center of holistic transformative education to the society for the glory of God”
Mission
“To provide innovative and quality education, training, research and mentorship for sustainable
change of individuals for God’s service”
Core Values
- We are a Christian Institution
- We are Accountable, Honest and Transparent
- We are committed to Quality Servant-Oriented Results
- We are Loving, Caring and Responsive
- We are committed to Excellence and Stewardship
Statement of Faith
- As a community of Christians who acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, we affirm our belief in:
- The Unity and Trinity of God, eternally existing in three co-equal Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, God the Creator and Preserver of all things, who created man, male and female, in His image and gave them dominion over the earthly creation.
- The deity and humanity of God the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, who is very God, also became man, being begotten by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, was crucified, dead and buried, was raised bodily from the dead and ascended to the right hand of the Father; whose two natures continue eternally and inseparably joined together in one Person.
- The deity and personality of God the Holy Spirit and the necessity of His work to make the death of Christ effective to the individual sinner, granting him repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; and in His ministry dwelling permanently within and working through the believer for godly life and service.
- The divine, verbal inspiration and infallibility of the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as originally given and their absolute and final authority in all matters of faith and conduct.
- The universal sinfulness and guilt of human nature since the fall, rendering man subject to God’s wrath and condemnation.
- The sacrificial death of our Representative and Substitute, the Lord Jesus Christ, the incarnate Son of God, by the shedding of whose blood atonement was made for the sin of the world whereby alone men are redeemed from the guilt, penalty, and power of sin and death.
- The necessity of the new birth as the work of God the Holy Spirit that men are saved by grace through faith, not by works.
- The eternal security of the believer, based entirely on the atoning work of the Lord Jesus Christ, whereby, as a born-again child of God, he has the assurance of salvation and has the right to all privileges of the sons of God.
- The maintenance of good works and obedience to the revealed will of God in life and service, through which eternal rewards shall be received.
- The True Church, whose Head is the Lord Jesus Christ and whose members are all regenerate persons united to Christ and to one another by the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
- The observance of the ordinances of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper as appointed by the Lord Jesus Christ.
- The supreme mission of the church as being to glorify God and to preach the Gospel to every creature.
- The personal, visible return of the Lord Jesus Christ: To catch up the Church which is the body of Christ ( 1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17) to reign a thousand years (Revelation 20:6)
- The literal resurrection of the body.
- The physical resurrection of all people.
- The eternal blessedness of the saved and the eternal punishment of the lost.
Scott Christian University Courses Offered
Certificate Programmes
Certificate in Information Communication Technology (ICT)
The SCU Certificate and Diploma in IT programs are aimed at producing highly employable citizens of integrity who are well equipped with latest skills necessary to provide reliable ICT solutions to business and industry. These courses are designed as a sequence that allows a student to progress from the Certificate to Diploma level and later to transfer credits into an ICT degree program.
Certificate in Agribusiness
This program aims at developing basic agribusiness entrepreneurs (agripreneurs) capable of starting micro-enterprises and small businesses and/or becoming practical agribusiness advisors with primary production and basic value-addition expertise. A certificate holder should effectively be able to work as an assistant to a first-level manager.
Certificate in Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE)
Early Childhood Development certificate program is designed to equip ECDE teachers with skills, competence, and attitudes needed to stimulate children in preparation for primary education. The program provides knowledge on how children grow, and help educators develop strategies to provide for these needs and serve effectively within communities as ECDE teachers.
Certificate in Christian Ministry
Certificate in Christian Ministry is a program SCU hosts in collaboration with World Vision and Compassion International. Students are admitted to the program at the beginning of each 2-year cycle with the next admission being in 2016. The program consists of fewer credit hours compared to a diploma in Christian Ministry which is spread over a 2-year time span.
Diploma Programs
Diploma in Theology (DTh)
The Diploma in Theology is a three-year full-time program held at the Machakos campus designed for students who are seeking to be well-equipped for pastoral or church-based ministry. Extensive coursework in Biblical Studies and Theological Studies lay a solid foundation for courses in General Studies and Ministry Studies, where biblical and theological truths are applied and contextualized to holistic ministry in an African context. Students who excel at the Diploma level may upgrade to the B.Th., entering the third year of the B.Th. after graduation with a Dip.Th., thus completing a B.Th. within five years of total study.
Diploma in Christian Ministry
Diploma in Christian ministry is a program SCU hosts in collaboration with World Vision and Compassion International. Students are admitted to the program at the beginning of each 2-year cycle with the next admission being in 2016. The partnership with World Vision allows students to be educated at different outposts nearer their home, while the partnership with Compassion allows students to come to Scott to study in the school-based mode program which focuses on training church leaders.
Diploma in Leadership & Management
The Diploma in Leadership and Management is designed to provide leadership and management skills to mature students who are actively involved in the community and/or institutional leadership. It aims at providing students with a foundational understanding of leadership and management principles and practices that encourage further study and life-long growth in the area of leadership, with special attention to the students’ context of work and calling.
Diploma in Agribusiness
This program aims at developing basic agribusiness entrepreneurs (agripreneurs) capable of starting micro-enterprises and small businesses and/or becoming practical agribusiness advisors with primary production and basic value-addition expertise. A certificate holder should effectively be able to work as an assistant to a first-level manager, while a diploma holder can effectively serve as a first-line manager with a supervisory role.
Diploma in Information Communication Technology (ICT)
The SCU Certificate and Diploma in IT programs are aimed at producing highly employable citizens of integrity who are well equipped with the latest skills necessary to provide reliable ICT solutions to business and industry. These courses are designed as a sequence that allows a student to progress from the Certificate to Diploma level and later to transfer credits into an ICT degree program.
Diploma in Early Childhood Development Education(ECDE)
Early Childhood Development diploma program is designed to equip ECDE teachers with skills, competence, and attitudes needed to stimulate children in preparation for primary education. The program provides knowledge on how children grow, and help educators develop strategies to provide for these needs and serve effectively within communities as ECDE teachers.
Undergraduate Programmes
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA)
This program aims to develop students’ intellectual ability and managerial skills through an appropriate blending of business and general education. It enhances students’ professional and leadership development in the areas of Finance, Accounting, Entrepreneurship, Human Resource Management, Management Information Systems, Marketing and Purchase and Supplies.
Areas of specialization;
Finance
Accounting
Entrepreneurship
Human Resource Management
Management Information Systems,
Marketing
Purchase and Supplies.
Bachelor of Business Information Technology (BBIT)
The Bachelor of Business Information Technology (BBIT) degree program is designed to equip graduates with sufficient knowledge and skills in business management and information technology. It combines the key aspects of Information Technology with the key facets of the business to equip graduates to be immediately productive in the modern business environment.
Bachelor of Information Communication Technology
The BICT Programme is designed to prepare students for a career in the field of Information and Communication Technologies as managers of ICT functions, system engineers, network engineers, database designers and implementers, database administrators and such.
Bachelor of Hospitality and Tourism Management
The Hospitality and Tourism Management Programme aims to produce professionals with a firm academic foundation in the management and operation of most sectors in the tourism and hospitality industry. Graduates will be multi-skilled with transferable managerial skills within the tourism and hospitality industry.
Areas of specialization;
Tourism Management
Hospitality Management
Bachelor of Leadership and Management
The purpose of this program is to provide students with an understanding of foundational leadership and management principles and practices. It is designed to prepare students for effective organizational and public leadership and management roles in an era of increasing complexity and dynamic operating environments.
Areas of specialization;
- Business Leadership
- Public Sector Leadership
- The leadership of Nonprofit Organizations
Bachelor of Arts in Counseling Psychology
This program is designed to prepare counseling specialists capable of guaranteeing individual, institutional and national wellness, equip learners with relevant competencies for responding to emerging psychosocial needs, and promote counseling professionalism through assured competence.
Bachelor of Arts in Community Development
This program is designed to help enhance self-sustainability among entire populations in communities by developing leaders who are transformational and thus transform the attitudes and abilities of the communities that they lead. Students can graduate as gender specialists or international development workers.
Bachelor of Education (B. Ed) (Arts)
Our Bachelor of Arts in Education program is tailor-made to equip high school teachers with competence in teaching skills. A mean grade of C+ in KCSE and C+ in two teaching subjects or a diploma or certificate in a relevant discipline from a recognized institution is the requirement for admission to this program. The program follows the demands and standards laid down by the Teacher Service Commission (TSC) and is regulated by the Commission of University Education (CUE). In addition to the teaching and education common courses, the program incorporates the University common courses, which include spiritual formation, progress of redemption and Christian ethics for the workplace. At SCU we endeavor to produce well-disciplined and godly, professional teachers, who will not only impart knowledge but also provide mentorship for the high school students (teenagers) in our society.
Bachelor of Education in Early Childhood Development Education
Early Childhood Development Bachelor program is designed to equip ECDE teachers with skills, competence, and attitudes needed to stimulate children in preparation for primary education. It is our core purpose to train and equip trainers because we believe that children at this stage need a firm foundation to develop their innate potential as individuals. The program is designed to provide knowledge on how children grow, and help educators develop strategies to provide for these needs and serve effectively within communities as ECDE teachers.
Bachelor of Theology (BTh)
The Bachelor of Theology, SCU’s most popular program, provides quality training for pastors, Christian educators, missionaries, and church leaders. Extensive coursework in Biblical Studies and Theological Studies lay a solid foundation for courses in General Studies and Ministry Studies, where biblical and theological truths are applied and contextualized to holistic ministry in an African context. The B.Th. is offered as a four-year full-time program but is also available in a school-based mode of study for those who are unable to enroll full-time.
NOTE:
Both the Dip.Th. and B.Th. also entail requirements outside the classroom that contribute to the formation of the student in not only knowledge but skills and character as well. Field Education provides students with weekly opportunities to grow in the practice of ministry in local church contexts. Learning Contracts, which are completed under the supervision of faculty mentors, enable students to focus on key areas of personal growth in Christlikeness, such as character formation, discipleship, and servant leadership. A 10-week internship provides a context for the student to apply their cumulative learning under faculty supervision.
Graduate Programmes
Master of Arts in Leadership and Management
This 55 credit hour curriculum integrates both the science of management and the art of leadership through its grounding in both business and the liberal arts. It is designed to enable students to acquire analytical techniques of management and develop the ability to apply these techniques to real-life scenarios in a corporate, government, or non-profit environment. In addition to a solid core of management and leadership courses, students may choose the following areas of specialization.
Areas of Specialization;
Church Leadership and Management
Organizational Leadership and Management
Educational Leadership and Management
Civic Leadership.
Post Graduate Diploma in Education
Secondary Option
The Postgraduate Diploma (secondary option) is designed to meet the needs of professionals who are first-degree holders in fields other than education for secondary schools but have employment that provides services to the same. They require a concentrated course in secondary school education that enables them to develop knowledge, methods of service delivery and skills directly related to their service provision. This Post Graduate Diploma is designed to meet this need. The program intends to train teachers who are moral, ethical, creative, innovative, competent and accountable. It also aims at providing an opportunity from self-development in relation to career and life-long learning
Early Childhood Development Education
The Post-graduate diploma (ECDE) is designed to provide an opportunity to the first-degree holders in other areas other than early childhood development education, but have a passion to work with children. This program is tailor-made to equip such people with skills and the necessary competencies for efficient service delivery. We believe in producing professional competent Christian teachers; who are critical thinkers, creative, caring and making learning interesting
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
This 54 credit hour program is designed to provide a broad range of academic courses and practical tools to prepare students for managerial careers in Finance, Marketing, and Strategic Management. Our emphasis on leadership and ethics makes the students’ experience really unique and prepares them for leadership and business in the global marketplace.
Areas of Specialization;
Strategic Management
Finance
Accounting
Human Resource Management
Project Management
Entrepreneurship Management
Marketing
Management Information Systems
Master of Education (M.Ed) (On-line—distance learning)
Master of Arts in Theology(MAT)
The Master of Arts in Theology is a two-year program offered at the Machakos campus in a school-based mode of study. The MAT provides advanced training in Systematic and Historical Theology, offered from an evangelical, African perspective, in order to equip men and women for service in the Kingdom of God in Africa at a high level. It is designed for pastors or church leaders who desire advanced theological grounding as well as for those who aspire to doctoral studies in Theology.
Master of Arts in Biblical Studies (MABS)
The Master of Arts in Biblical Studies is a two-year program offered at the Machakos campus in a school-based mode of study. The MABS provides advanced training in Biblical Studies, offered from an evangelical, African perspective, in order to equip men and women for service in the Kingdom of God in Africa at a high level. It is designed for pastors or church leaders who desire a firm foundation in Old and New Testament Studies as well as for those who aspire to doctoral studies in these disciplines.
Application form
Application forms for the various programs can be downloaded from the university website on the link below.
http://www.scott.ac.ke/index.php/application-forms
Fee structure
Fee structure for the various programs can be obtained from the university website by following the link below.
http://www.scott.ac.ke/index.php/fee-structure
Scott Christian University Contacts
Scott Christian University
Postal Address: P.O. Box 49 – 90100
Machakos, Kenya
Tel: 0713 745 404/0734 833 832
Email: info@scott.ac.ke
Website: www.scott.ac.ke