For more than three decades, Bakke Graduate University has formed Christ-centered leaders to steward resources with and for the world's most vulnerable people and places.
Bakke Graduate University strengthens leaders who steward resources with and for vulnerable people and places, by means of contextual, Christian-based education innovatively delivered throughout the urban world.
BGU grew out of the global theological network built over three decades by Dr. Ray Bakke and a generation of urban leaders. What began as a movement to take the city seriously became an accredited graduate university serving students in 65 nations.
Today that network is our classroom. Faculty, students, and alumni from more than 60 countries learn together, immerse in the world's great cities, and carry transformation back to the places they call home.
Ray Bakke and global urban leaders build a theological network that takes the city seriously.
The network becomes Bakke Graduate University, offering master's and doctoral degrees worldwide.
Programs launch in Spanish, Korean, and Mandarin; immersions expand across six continents.
A community of scholar-practitioners transforming cities from Dallas to Seoul to Accra.
We steward resources with and for people and places too often overlooked.
Accredited, research-grade education that holds faith and inquiry together.
We don't extract leaders from their context — we equip them to transform it.
Every student is known, guided, and challenged by scholar-practitioners.
Hybrid learning and global immersions make a world-class education reachable.
We read theology and leadership in the streets of the world's great cities.
From our home in Dallas to immersions in Amsterdam, Accra, Addis Ababa, Seoul, and Singapore — BGU students learn and serve where God is already at work.
Explore the program that fits your calling — and help transform the urban world.