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The World Is Broken.

War. Poverty. Pornography. Abuse. Injustice. Disease. Division.

Everywhere you look, the marks of brokenness are clear.

Many Christians long to help, but feel unprepared to bring real change.

But There Is Hope!​

At Sattler College, we share your grief at our broken world and at the unfruitfulness of nominal Christianity.

But we also believe that Jesus’ radical teachings in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5–7) hold the answers to every single form of brokenness the world faces, if only Christian communities would live them out.

Are You Equipped?

You want your life to matter. You want to bring healing and hope into the world.

But knowing Jesus’ words is different from being equipped to live them out.

To serve fruitfully for a lifetime, you need preparation—both academically and spiritually.

 

Consider Sattler College, a Different Kind of College.

Sattler College equips you to live as a fruitful disciple of Jesus, prepared to apply His Sermon on the Mount teachings and bring truth, hope, and love into a broken world.

Here you can earn your bachelor's degree in a meaningful discipline while learning in community, growing spiritually strong, and being equipped to make disciples anywhere in the world.

Discover the Sattler Experience.

Sattler's model is based on Ezra 7:10, which reads "Now Ezra had dedicated himself to studying the law of the LORD, to doing it, and to teaching its statutes and judgments in Israel."

Click below to see how this shapes every student:

LEARN.

Academic Excellence

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Relational Discipleship

TEACH.

Light the World

LEARN.

Academic Excellence

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Relational Discipleship

TEACH.

Light the World

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Hear From Our Students.

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3.

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Begin your journey toward a meaningful, Christ-centered future.

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Hear From Our Students.

Check out our YouTube channel and hear from students, faculty, and guest speakers.

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3.

Submit your application.

Begin your journey toward a meaningful, Christ-centered future.

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Let Us Help You Fulfill Your God-Given Potential!

Sattler College understands the challenges facing young believers today.

Our community is committed to providing a transformative education—one that strengthens your faith, builds competence, and equips you to contribute meaningfully to the Great Commission.

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Our goal is to enable graduates to heartily say, “For God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but of power, love, and a sound mind” ~ 2 Timothy 1:7

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Academic Excellence
  • Rigorous Core Curriculum: At Sattler, you will join your entire class in an extensive and rigorous Core Curriculum. Studying together fosters strong bonds and a shared intellectual and spiritual formation. Topics you will take study include the following:
    • Biblical and Doctrinal Overviews
    • Introductions to Human Biology, Statistics, and Data Science
    • Biblical Greek and Biblical Hebrew
    • Apologetics and Evangelism
    • The History, Art, Philosophy, and Literature of the Ancient World, Medieval Era, and Modern Era
    • Oral Communication and Academic Writing
    • Global Poverty and World Change
  • Core Texts of the Humanities: You will read and grapple with the core texts that generation upon generation has returned to read – in times of war and peace, in times of plague and plenty – in order to gain special insights into our human struggles and to reclaim our highest ideals. See our reading list here. 
  • Cross-Disciplinary Understanding: These courses prepare you to choose a major while sharpening the cross-disciplinary thinking needed for faithful, thoughtful leadership.
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  • Unique Requirement: Sattler College is the only college in America that requires all students learn biblical Hebrew and biblical Greek, which means that you will get this foundation no matter which major you choose.
  • Communicative Teaching Method: You will learn biblical languages by taking part in conversations, hearing and telling stories, play acting, and following commands. Read more here. 
  • Biblical Confidence: You will get to read the Bible in the original languages to see for yourself what the texts say. As Christianity becomes increasingly confused, it is more important than ever to have an unshakeable confidence in what the Scriptures actually say.
  • Five Classic Majors: At Sattler College, you can choose from five bachelor’s degrees designed to serve a broad variety of fields. Each program offers flexibility, enabling you to prepare for a personalized post-graduation path.   
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Biblical & Religious Studies

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Computer Science

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History

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Human Biology

  • Two One-Year Certificates: In addition to our five four-year degrees, you can also choose to start with a one-year certificate which you can then transfer into a four-year degree if you choose. 
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Biblical & Religious Studies

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Liberal Arts

  • Primary Sources: You will read from the pre-Nicene church (before 325 AD) to understand “the faith once delivered to the saints.”

  • Historical Clarity: You will explore what made early Christianity so dynamic in its growth compared to today’s decline.

  • Distinct Convictions: Sattler College is the only four-year college in America that upholds the historic Christian positions on key issues such as war, divorce, oaths, and participation in government. 

  • Personal Mentorship: With a 5:1 student-to-faculty ratio, you will be known personally by each of your professors. 

  • World-Class Faculty: At Sattler College, our faculty members are highly trained, many coming from Ivy League or other top schools. Below are two highlights, but click here for a full listing of our faculty.

Hans Leaman

Dr. Hans Leaman, JD, PhD

  • A.B., Princeton University
  • J.D., Yale Law School
  • Ph.D., Yale University’s History Department and Renaissance Studies Program
  •  Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity

Dr. Finny Kuruvilla, MD, PhD

  • B.S., Caltech
  • M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  • M.D., Harvard Medical School
  • Ph.D., Harvard University

  • Study in a World-Class University City: Experience life and learning in the heart of Boston, a city renowned for its history, culture, and innovation, and shaped by one of the highest concentrations of universities in the world.

  • Cross-Enrollment at Leading Universities: Join many of our students in the opportunity to take specialized courses at nearby institutions, including Harvard Extension School and Northeastern University.

  • Living in an Academic Community: Housing at our dorms, the International Guest House, places you alongside students and scholars from colleges across the city, creating daily opportunities for conversation, friendship, intellectual exchange, and evangelism.

  • Access to Libraries, Lectures, and Conferences: Benefit from regular access to major research libraries, public lectures, conferences, and cultural events hosted throughout the Boston area.

  • Freshmen Trip to Greece: At the end of your first year, you will have the opportunity to travel to Greece to apply the modern Greek you study alongside biblical Greek while visiting Athens, Corinth, Thessalonica, and Philippi.

  • Take a Semester in Europe: You can spend a semester studying at select institutions in Europe, including programs in Germany or Austria, with coursework aligned to your Sattler degree.

  • Study in Jerusalem:You can deepen your understanding of Scripture, biblical languages, and the land of the Bible through Sattler’s partnership with Jerusalem University College.

  • Graduate Success: Sattler graduates have achieved MCAT scores among the highest national averages (with median scores above the 90th percentile) and have gained admission to Yale Medical School, Johns Hopkins Medical School (MD PhD), Washington University School of Medicine, Duke Divinity School, Boston College, Boston University, and Villanova School of Law.

  • Unique Opportunities: Due to our location in downtown Boston and because of our professors’ and alumni’s connections, many of our students have landed highly-sought-after placements or internships including at Harvard Medical School, Google, Mass General Hospital, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Microsoft, Koble Systems, and Eventide Asset Management.

  • Integrative Learning: In your senior year, you will complete a capstone project connecting your academic discipline with real-world service.

  • Transformative Impact: A few examples of real-world impact are ongoing cancer research, a business as missions plan that was put into practice upon graduation, a business startup that has continued, a biblical study guide that has been published, and a high school Bible curriculum that is currently being used. 

  • Portfolio of Purpose: Your capstone becomes both a testimony of learning and a launchpad for future graduate study or professional work.

  • Click here to watch video presentations of capstone projects completed by Sattler students.

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Relational Discipleship
  • Why a Fountain? A fountain symbolizes how true change flows from within. At Sattler, your discipleship journey begins with the heart, your relationship with God, and your understanding of yourself. Then, in each year of our four-year curriculum, the focus expands outward. By the time you reach your senior year, our hope is that “out of [your] heart will come rivers of living water”(John 7:38), in a life overflowing with joy and fruitfulness.
  • Discipleship Curriculum: Each Sattler student participates in the college’s four-year discipleship curriculum alongside their academic coursework. Discipleship coursework includes thematic readings for each year, individual and group reflections on the readings, and communal practice of the spiritual disciplines, including prayer, fasting, sexual integrity, and rest.
  • Real Results: Students tell us that their time at Sattler has shaped their spiritual lives in meaningful ways. The chart below summarizes responses from 117 different students (from surveys done 2020 and 2025) who were asked, “Since starting Sattler College, how would you describe your spiritual development in the following categories?”
Chart Showing Spiritual Growth of Sattler Students

  • Weekly Meeting: Every student joins a same-gender group of 3–5 peers that meets each week for discipleship, prayer, and encouragement.

  • Honest Community: Students learn to share life together in a safe and supportive setting, including the hard and messy parts.

  • Spiritual Accountability: Groups check in weekly on Scripture reading, prayer, fasting, purity, outreach, and community.

  • Relational Discipleship: Journey Groups foster deep spiritual growth, and many students describe them as one of the most meaningful parts of their week.

  • Daily Tea Time: Each weekday at 10:00 AM, the Sattler community gathers for Tea Time, a short moment of worship, rest, and connection. The time begins with a song, and on Tuesday through Thursday someone shares a brief pearl of wisdom or encouragement. Mondays and Fridays are unstructured and focus on fellowship, conversation, and simple activities like tea and ping-pong.

  • Weekly Journey Group: Every student joins a same-gender Journey Group of 3 to 5 peers that meets each week for prayer, accountability, and encouragement. Each group discusses their spiritual disciplines, goals, and life in general. These peer groups foster genuine accountability in the context of friendship, and are a meaningful locus of relational discipleship for each Sattler student.

  • Monthly Mentorship: Every Sattler student chooses a mentor from their church, home community, or professional field, and meets with them once a month. These meetings provide guidance, spiritual support, and practical wisdom from a mature Christian who walks alongside the student through both challenges and growth.

  • Growth Day: At the end of each school year, students participate in Growth Day, a time to receive personalized feedback from faculty, staff, and leaders. Students also receive encouraging and exhortative feedback from their Journey Group peers, with the goal of growing in self-understanding and in the ability to give and receive candid exhortation.

  • Pillars of Student Culture: Sattler is home to a vibrant, devoted student culture. Our intimate size and our model of relational discipleship foster a distinct community atmosphere of worship, hard work, and deep, abiding friendship. Here are our four pillars of student culture:

Awe Animates Us

The Sattler community life flows from a deep reverence for God. Awe for His Word and works fuels the fire of everything we pursue.

Honesty Humbles Us

The Sattler community grows by honesty. Honesty means humbly recognizing both strengths and weaknesses in our individual lives.

Love Lifts Us

The Sattler community chooses sacrifice before self. Sacrificial love means lifting others at the expense of our own success. 

Service Shapes Us

The Sattler community embodies the way of Jesus by serving and proclaiming the gospel. Service means actively reaching the world around us.
  • Click here to learn more about these pillars and to hear students talk about how they are putting them into practice. 
A great place for those who are seeking to strengthen their faith and lay a foundation for a lifetime of service to God's kingdom. Here I learned the devotional habits that continue to propel me forward in my relationship with God.
Seth Pontbriand
Seth
Class of 2023
Sattler is a close-knit community with exceptional classes, professors, and Christian discipleship for all students.
Emily
Class of 2024
If you are looking for a college experience that drives you to grow in your spiritual life as well as your knowledge of the Bible, you should seriously consider Sattler College.
Sheri
Certificate
Class of 2023

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Light the World
  • Classes to Help You Prepare: Throughout your time at Sattler, you will have the opportunity to take courses in Missiology, Apologetics, and Language Acquisition, equipping you to serve thoughtfully and faithfully across cultures and contexts around the world.
  • Global Poverty & World Change: In your senior year, you will take Global Poverty & World Change, a culminating course that draws together your studies and prepares you to think carefully about culture, history, economics, innovation, and Christian responsibility in addressing global poverty and social change.
  • Learn to Share Your Faith: As a Sattler student, you will take a class in evangelism, where you receive practical tools to grow in sharing your faith with others.

    • Biblical Foundations for Evangelism: You will study the biblical basis for evangelism and learn from faithful evangelists throughout church history, grounding your witness in Scripture, prayer, and the gospel itself.

    • Prayer and Dependence on God: The course integrates a strong group prayer component, helping you cultivate dependence on God and discernment as central to faithful evangelistic practice.

    • Practical Training and Field Experience: You will receive hands-on training and guided field experience in evangelism, developing practical skills for clearly and winsomely sharing the Christian faith.

    • A Lifelong Evangelistic Framework: You will be trained to recognize evangelistic opportunities and to develop a sustainable, thoughtful structure for evangelism in your everyday life.

  • A City With Many Service Opportunities: Boston provides a rich context for putting what you learn into practice. Sattler offers structured service opportunities and local connections, while many students also find their own areas of interest and meaningful ways to serve in the city.
    • Serving the Poor: You will have opportunities to work with ministries addressing homelessness and economic hardship. Students have volunteered with Send Relief, Park Street Church, and several halfway houses.

    • Serving Immigrants: You will have opportunities to work with organizations that help newcomers. Students have volunteered in ESL programs, done direct outreach to immigrant communities, helped with airport welcomes for international students, and fundraised and sponsored refugees.

    • Other Opportunities: You will have many additional service opportunities in Boston. Students have volunteered with pro-life organizations, anti-trafficking organizations, and non-profit cafes. 

  • Learning Through Service Abroad: You may have opportunities to serve internationally through internships and service-based programs that emphasize relationship-building, vocational skill development, and faithful Christian witness. Past opportunities have included:

    • Ukraine: Students have served in mobile medical clinics during the ongoing war in Ukraine, helping provide critical medical care where regular services were unavailable.

    • East Africa: Students have completed summer internships in Kampla, Uganda, serving with a pro-life ministry and a biblical training center, with a focus on long-term relationships and local church engagement.

    • Central Asia: Students have participated in a summer internship in Central Asia with a software development business-as-missions company, applying technical skills in a cross-cultural context.

    • Middle East: Students have completed summer internships in a Middle Eastern country, studying Arabic and participating in evangelism alongside a mission organization.

    • South Asia: Students have completed capstone work in India and Pakistan in their field of study. Click here to watch video presentations of capstone projects completed by Sattler students. 

  • Alumni in the Classroom: A natural place for our alumni teach is in the classroom. Multiple Sattler alumni have taught in private Christian schools such as Legacy, Faith, and Ephrata, as well as in public schools, bringing a strong liberal arts foundation and Christian conviction into their work.

  • Pathways to Classroom Teaching: While Sattler does not offer an Education major, there are several teaching pathways that we offer, with successful alumni in each category:

    • Private School Teaching: You can prepare to teach in private schools by majoring in the subject(s) you hope to teach, and gain experience by shadowing current teachers, volunteer, and/or substitute in a public or private school.

    • Public School Teaching (Upper Grades): You can pursue a four-year major aligned with your subject area, which will make you eligible to complete various teacher preparation or alternative certification program after graduation.

    • Public School Teaching (Early Grades): Through a dual-degree partnership with Indiana Wesleyan University, you can combine a Sattler liberal arts degree with a degree in Early Childhood Education, preparing you for licensure. 

  • A Life Shaped for Lasting Impact: At Sattler, you are prepared not only for a first job after graduation, but for a lifetime of faithful service, wherever God places you. Below are a few examples of what our alumni are doing:

    • Business as Mission in South Asia: A Sattler alumnus has moved to South Asia with his family and is serving there long-term through business-as-missions, starting and operating company that supports his family while building relationships and sharing the gospel. Click here to watch a podcast in which he describes their journey.

    • Medical Service in Ukraine: Several Sattler alumni have served in Ukraine, working in mobile medical clinics during the ongoing war to provide care in areas where regular medical services have been disrupted. Click here to view a capstone project presentation related to this work.

    • Urban Church Planting: Several Sattler alumni are helping plant churches in major North American cities, including Boston, Calgary, Buffalo, Toronto, and Richmond, investing in close-knit Christian community and long-term discipleship. Click here to watch a podcast in which one of these alumni describes his journey.

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