As an applicant, you will be evaluated on the basis of:

1. Your academic records
2. The assessment of your references
3. The extent and quality of involvement in Christian service
4. Your apparent gifts and potential for placement into Christian ministry.

The qualifying degree for a master's level program is a baccalaureate degree, or its equivalent, conferred by an accredited college or university. Exceptions to this requirement are limited.
Dallas Seminary enrolls men and women who:

5. Show evidence of saving faith in Christ
6. Are of proven Christian character
7. Are endowed with appropriate spiritual gifts
8. Adhere to the following doctrines:
9. the authority and inerrancy of Scripture
10. the Trinity
11. Christ's full deity and humanity
12. the spiritual lostness of the human race
13. Christ's substitutionary atonement and bodily resurrection
14. salvation by faith alone in Christ alone
15. the physical return of Christ.

All degree programs are coeducational. The Seminary holds the position that Scripture limits to men the roles of elder and senior pastor in the local church. Therefore, the Pastoral Leadership concentration of the Pastoral Ministries track is only open to male Th.M. students.
While students must adhere to the seven doctrines listed above to be admitted and graduate, each member of the faculty affirms his or her full agreement with the entire doctrinal statement.