415. Educational Requirements--A candidate for probationary membership must (1) have been graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in liberal education or equivalent degree in a college or university listed by the University Senate or competency equivalence through an external degree program at a college or university listed by the University Senate; (2) have completed at least one-half of the work required for a Master of Divinity or equivalent first professional degree in a school of theology listed by the University Senate except under the special conditions of 416.2; (3) an annual conference may designate a Master of Divinity or equivalent first professional degree from a school of theology listed by the University Senate as the minimum educational requirement for probationary membership; and (4) the educational standards and other requirements for admission and ordination shall be set by the central and provisional central conferences for the annual and provisional annual conferences within their territories, and outside such territories by the annual or provisional annual conference itself.13
13See Judicial Council Decision 187.
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1992 Book of Discipline: ¶ 415
1996 United Methodist General Conference