Academic Areas

College of Arts & Sciences

The College of Arts & Sciences is unified around the central theme of preparing people for the marketplace, to be ministers in the world, to be equipped to minister in the varied contexts of life.

Carlstrom ASL-Interpreting Department

North Central University (NCU) is home to the Carlstrom American Sign Language Interpreting training department. NCU is the only Assemblies of God College to offer a major in interpreting and a minor in Deaf Cultural studies. The qualified faculty members enable students to be trained by experts in the field of interpreting, Deaf culture and American Sign Language (ASL).

Department of Communication Arts

The Department of Communications is committed to producing communication professionals that are well equipped to boldly navigate today’s media technology and understand its burgeoning power to shape human communication, culture and the church.

Department of English

The Department of English produces graduates who understand and communicate a Christian perspective in a society increasingly closed to hearing it.

Department of Mathematics & General Studies

The Department of Mathematics and General Studies sponsors the Interdisciplinary Studies and Mathematics majors, the two-year Associate of Arts degree, and minors in Mathematics and History and serves as the liaison with the two ROTC programs with which North Central University is affiliated (Army, University of Minnesota; and Air Force, University of St. Thomas).

School of Business

Preparing professional leaders for a life of ministry as marketplace missionaries.

School of Education

The School of Education is committed to producing teachers who are academically prepared for excellent teaching and who utilize the best pedagogical practices, model Christ-like character, and devote themselves to lifelong learning.

School of Social & Behavioral Sciences

The School of Social and and Behavioral Sciences exists to provide a broad, theologically enlightened educational foundation for students entering the behavioral sciences and prepare department graduates for further educational training and/or immediate employment in the field.

College of Fine Arts

The College of Fine Arts offers degrees in Contemporary Christian Music, Music, Music Business, Music Performance, four different tracks within the new Worship Arts program (Recording Arts, Theatre, Music Pastor and Worship Leading) and a degree in Secondary Education - Music.

School of Music and Theatre

The North Central University College of Fine Arts exists to develop passionate, spiritual leaders through academic excellence and rigorous practical application.

School of Worship Arts

The North Central University College of Fine Arts exists to develop passionate, spiritual leaders through academic excellence and rigorous practical application.

College of Ministry

The establishment of the College of Ministry provides for continued growth and development of ministry programs as we embrace our responsibility to raise up and send out the next generation of leaders answering God's call to vocational ministry.

Center for Children & Family Ministries

The Center for Children & Family Ministries exists to prepare pastors, evangelists, and missionaries to minister to children and their families.

Center for Pastoral Ministries

The Center for Pastoral Ministries exists to provide comprehensive ministerial training for pastoral leaders.

Center for Youth & Leadership

The Center for Youth and Leadership exists to prepare, serve, and connect emerging and existing leaders who want to make a difference in the lives of youth.

College of Missions

The College of Missions prepares students to love both God and others, extending God’s Kingdom incarnationally across ethnic, racial, economic, gender, and generational barriers by focusing on unreached peoples and the oppressed and impoverished urban and rural poor.

Graduate Studies

The new online Graduate Certificate in Strategic Leadership program at North Central University is committed to continuing our institutional standard of academic excellence in a Christ-centered environment that prepares students to fulfill biblical models of leadership.

Institute for Biblical & Theological Studies

The Institute for Biblical & Theological Studies is designed for high-achieving students planning to earn a graduate degree following their studies at North Central. In addition to serving as a pre-seminary program, it may appeal to students whose ministry goals include Bible translation, chaplaincy and university teaching.