The mission of the undergraduate Program in Theology is to guide students in interpreting, reasoning, and understanding their faith. The Program’s goal is for students to engage in undergraduate-level learning in all areas of Catholic Theology: Scripture, the Church, the development and reception of doctrine, the Christian vision of the human person and the moral life, as well as the Church in relation to other religious traditions, science, education, law, and medicine. The Program seeks to cultivate informed thinkers and practitioners capable of lifelong theological study and applying their knowledge to diverse situations: among their families, colleagues, friends, patients, clients, and others whom they may encounter.
Anchored on the University’s motto which is ‘Seeking the Truth’, students graduating from the Faculty of Theology should be clearly and positively initiated into the whole of theology and develop their capacity for critical reflection and personal study. They will find in the series of cycle the preparation for an academic career, the instruction required for the reception of priestly ministry and the theological formation needed for serious evangelization. The Programme is inclusive of the human sciences and it integrates a theological synthesis in fidelity to the Gospel, the Church’s Tradition and the Magisterium.
Students of theology are expected at the end of their training to become theology teachers in various institutions; they could become counselors in the public and private sectors: banks, hospitals, prisons, film industry.
The minimum requirement for candidates seeking admission into the Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree programme of Veritas University, Abuja are as follows:
Entry requirement
The Faculty of Theology is open to all qualified students, male and female, who can legally give testimony to leading a moral life and to have completed the previous studies appropriate to enrolling in the Faculty. Clerical and religious students shall need the permission of their Ordinary/Superior to join the Faculty. The lay students shall need a letter of recommendation from their Ordinary to join the Faculty.
Entry Requirement for First Cycle
- Ordinary level, WASC/GCE with not less than 5 credits including English Language and Mathematics. That is to say, a secondary school (high school) diploma or certificate which would qualify the applicant for admission into a University in Nigeria.
- A Cum Laude Baccalaureate in Philosophy or its equivalent
- A successful completion of two years of university-level study in philosophy (Propaedeutic Courses), including courses in Logic, Epistemology, Philosophical Psychology (Philosophy of the Human Person, Philosophical Anthropology), Philosophy of Nature, Ethics (Moral Philosophy), Metaphysics, and the History of Philosophy.
- A knowledge of the elements of form and syntax of Latin; And a sufficient knowledge of English Language.
Furthermore, the University reserves the right to screen Direct Entry candidates before admission
