Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius
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Overview
Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius is located in a large city with a population of more than 250,000. It is in the Pittsburgh PA area.
Address
3605 Perrysville Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15214
www.bcs.edu
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Accreditation:
good
Institutional Control
Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius is a private not-for-profit organization.
Denomination
Other (none of the above)
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Accreditation
Accreditation provides important oversight over a school's instructional practices and institutional stability.
Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius holds an accreditation from one of the national accreditors. Credits earned from the national accreditors are often not accepted by schools holding the more prestigious regional accreditation, and it's important to verify that your credits will transfer if you are considering an eventual switch to another school.
Accreditation History
Commission on Accrediting of the Association of Theological Schools (Accredited June 1, 2006 - present)
  • The accreditation was recently renewed on January 31, 2020.
  • The next accreditation review was scheduled for March 31, 2030.
Programs
Master's Degree offerings at Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius
Theology
A program that focuses on the beliefs and doctrine of a particular religious faith from the intramural point of view of that faith. Includes instruction in systematic theology, historical theology, moral theology, doctrinal studies, dogmatics, apologetics, and applications to specific questions of ecclesiastical polity and religious life
Note: The name and definition of this program are based on Department of Education CIP code descriptions, which ensures uniform reporting across schools in the US. Please check this school's website for detailed program information and their specific course descriptions._
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Completions in Theology by award level
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Master's Degree
Recently College Scorecard released data on starting salaries and cumulative federal student debt for each school/program combination with sufficient graduates to allow for privacy concerns with data releases. Shown in the box plots below are data for all schools offering theological and ministerial studies (which may contain several related fields) by award level. If a value is reported for Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius, then that is shown in blue.
Starting Salaries
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Cumulative Federal Student Loan Debt
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What can I do if I study Theology?
Below we list the careers that the US Department of Education suggests are best fits for people who studied theology. You can get an idea of salary and the level of education you'll need, as well as whether this is a growing or shrinking career field. Sometimes this list of recommended careers doesn't match what people who earned this degree are really doing. Our theology program page has much more information about the interplay between study in this field and possible careers. Select any table row to learn more about listed career.
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Costs
Graduate general costs
Here's a quick summary of costs to attend Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius. You will find the most up-to-date information at their website for admissions.
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Historic Annual Costs
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Graduate Assistantships at Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius
Keep in mind that many graduate programs fund or partially fund their students through teaching, research, or other graduate assistantships. Some programs have provided graduate financial aid information that you can check for in the Programs section on this page. If we don't have that data, be sure to inquire with the academic department that interests you and do not assume you would have to pay full tuition for an academic graduate degree.
We believe that Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius does not offer assistantships to its graduate students. We calculated this percentage by dividing the number of graduate assistantships offered at Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius by its number of full-time-equivalent graduate students.
Graduate tuition, fees, books, and supplies over time
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Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius
On the blue curve, we see how the published annual cost to attend Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius has changed over the years.
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The shading shows the spread of the annual cost for the context schools. The dark shading shows the middle 50% of context schools, and the light shading shows all but the smallest and largest 10%.
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Research
The library is the backbone of academic learning and research

A rigorous academic program requires that students and faculty alike are engaging in independent research, and that activity requires strong library support. You can get some useful information here:

  • How strong and how balanced between traditional physical books and easily-accessed (but expensive) electronic journals and other resources is this library?
  • How much is this library borrowing from other libraries? The number of interlibrary loans received can indicate the school's commitment to getting the resources on-campus researchers need, and also of the research activity on campus.
  • How big a resource is this library to other libraries? A large number of outgoing interlibrary loans speaks highly of the value of its content.

The presence of a library in and of itself is a good thing. Increasingly, libraries are comfortable and inviting spaces for individual and group study sessions. Librarians can be incredibly friendly guides in your quest to find materials that aid your learning.

Comparison of library resources per student
How do the per-student library resources at Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius compare to other schools?
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Comparison of library loans per student
A small library could make up for a small collection by allowing a large number of interlibrary loans to be received. An excellent library can show its strength by its number of loans given.
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Research funding: the best indicator of post-baccalaureate academic rigor
Any school that reports at least $150,000 in research and development expenditures in a given year should have submitted out the Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) survey to the National Science Foundation (NSF). We did not find HERD data for $Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius, so there would at most modest graduate-level academic scholarship campus-wide.
Classroom Experience
Student attention at Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius
Schools are required to report the ratio of students per instructor, but look for a small number of students for every full-time instructor as your best indicator of personal attention and a modern well-integrated curriculum.
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Full-time and long-term instructors at Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius
Full-time faculty are mostly likely to be on campus and available for interaction, and to craft up-to-date courses and programs. Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius has 30% full-time instructors, and 94% of the context schools have a higher percentage of full-time instructors. Faculty with multi-year contracts provide additional stability and commitment to the school and its students.Within the full-time instructors at Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius, none have multi-year employment contracts. Of the context schools, 97% have instructors with multi-year contracts.
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Student Body
Study Types
About 54% of students are full-time. About 42% of students take all of their courses via distance education, while another 8% take some courses online.
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54%
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Context: Student body size
Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius enrolled 31 students over the past academic year. The the student body size is smaller than almost all the context schools.
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Gratduate student gender
Is the gender balance of Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius students important to you? You can see the breakdown in this donut chart.
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Gratduate student race/origin
Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius reports that 4% of students are minority, which is less than 99% of the context schools. With no international students, this school additionally has a lower percentage of international students than 99% of the context schools.
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White
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Context: Gender Balance
It is very difficult for many types of schools to achieve a gender balance, and this context is valuable in evaluating the balance at Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius.
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Context: Percentage of women
Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius is a single-sex institution.
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Context: Student race/origin
Here is how Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius compares to the rest of the context group in terms of diversity in the student race and origin.
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Student age distribution
Graduate students' ages may vary a lot from program to program, and we can only provide this statistic as a total for all graduate programs. In general, if the colors in the time chart lean towards lighter turquoise, you can surmise that this school is attracting students soon after they've completed their undergraduate degrees.
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School Finances
Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius: What its budget can tell you about classroom quality
Where a school spends and collects its money can suggest a lot about the educational experience it offers. The tabs below offer a look at spending that is important for the quality of your experience if you attend.
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Student services spending
Context and trends: Instructional expenditures per student
Instructional expenses are primarily the salary and benefits paid to the heart of a school: its full-time instructors. High expenditures in this area suggest care in hiring enough highly qualified full-time faculty to provide personal attention and up-to-date subject-area excellence.
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Chart explanation
Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius
On the blue curve, we see how the instructional expenses per student at Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius have changed over the years.
Context Schools
The shading shows the spread of the instructional expenses per student for the context schools. The dark shading shows the middle 50% of context schools, and the light shading shows all but the smallest and largest 10%.
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Does incoming revenue consistently cover expenses?

Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius is a private not-for-profit school. Along with publicly-controlled schools, not-for-profit schools do not have the goal of annual profit, but they do want to have healthy finances with adequate revenue to meet all expenses. On the other hand, private for-profit schools have creating a profit for shareholders as an annual goal.

Total revenue and expenses by category
We divided revenue and expenses for Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius into categories to give some insight to what may have influenced peaks and ditches in the chart above. The purple shades correspond most directly to student education. The blue shades, auxiliary expenses and revenue, are often related to room and board. We show investment gains and losses in apricot.
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The power of a large endowment
Related to the previous question of whether the annual revenue stream is stable is the question, "How deep are this school's pockets?" For many schools, a major source of annual income is investment growth. Schools with large endowments have a built-in revenue stream, although you'll see in the accompanying graphs that this revenue stream is highly dependent on the nation's economy. You can choose how to examine the depth of Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius's resources by selecting from the buttons below.
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Net Assets
Net Assets Per Student

Here we examine assets at Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius in context, and it seems most fair to adjust for the size of the institution. We examine the assets per full-time-equivalent student so that we level the playing field for size.

There's a catch to these assets, though. Many gifts to a school's endowment have strings attached; the money is restricted to a specific purpose. Assets shown in green below are unrestricted, and are very important to a school's ability to meet its financial obligations. Some assets are the land and buildings that a school must have in order to function, and these may appear as green (unrestricted assets) but are nonetheless less helpful in meeting annual financial commitments. This look at assets is only a piece of the puzzle as we decide if a school is stable.

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