We’re glad you asked. It’s super easy to apply online! You can do it at the bottom of this page!

Really like using paper? Ask us to mail you an application instead.

We’ll begin processing your application once we have received your registration fee, application, and all your references.

$3850 + $35 application fee + Outreach.
The cost of DTS covers tuition, housing, food, and books.

Outreach costs vary from $2000 – $3500 based on the location of the outreach (the cost of living in that location and the cost of transportation to get there).

We do not have scholarships available for DTS. Every student is responsible to raise the funding necessary for both the lecture and outreach phases.

Once we have received your complete application it is our goal to have an answer to you within two-three weeks.  In most cases this happens but occasionally it might take longer if the school leader is out of the country.

Encourage your references to submit their forms back as soon as possible. We cannot process your application without all three reference forms returned to us.

To be eligible for a course, students must first meet the initial entry requirements and successfully submit a completed application and accompanying reference forms.

After we receive the application we carefully pray, asking God if this is the best time and place for each applicant.

Life in DTS is full! Your day will usually start with personal devotions and worship with your classmates and staff. Then you’ll have a few hours together as a class where you’ll learn from that week’s speaker.

Depending on which elective you choose, you may have separate class times and activities.

Outside of class, you’ll be involved in “small groups,” which are discussion groups designed to grow your friendships with each other and digest the information from class in a smaller environment.

Community Responsibilities: We all share the responsibility of keeping our community running well. Community responsibilities include helping prepare or clean-up meals, cleaning bathrooms, mowing the lawn, weeding the garden, helping with building maintenance, or other projects.

Devotional time: Disciplining ourselves to spend time with God each day is significant to growing in our relationships with Him. This time is specifically set apart each day for that purpose.

Worship: Led by staff and students, worship is a time to focus on God, to praise and thank Him for who He is. Worship is our response to God and is just as unique and creative as each of us.

Intercession: Prayer for others–nations, people, events. During the first week of lecture, you’ll receive training on what intercession is and how to effectively intercede for others.

Homework: Keep in mind that, as a prerequisite for further study within University of the Nations, the DTS is a university course. Homework may include the following: journal entries, book reports, geography quizzes, Bible study and memory work. We know that each person has different learning styles, so we incorporate several creative and fun projects.

Freetime: We know that all work and no play makes it very hard to learn and stay motivated. So there are definitely free hours during the day for you to hang out, to get alone with God, to do whatever it is you do.

Weekends are available for you to sleep in, work on homework, relax, shoot hoops in the gym, do laundry, reflect on the last week’s teaching, or go with other students and staff on fun activities (Hello, cheese curds and frozen custard and Sassy Cow runs!). Sunday mornings, all the students will attend a local church of their choosing.

We have 3 buildings that we host our schools at! In the fall, DTS typically meets at our Training & Retreat Center, 20 miles north of downtown Madison. There are large dorm rooms, divided into cozy spaces with bunk-beds, shelves, and dressers.

Built on seven acres, the Training Center (a former Elementary School) also includes a gym, bonfire pit, garden, and porches to enjoy the sunset (without mosquitoes!). We’ve also got an indoor wood stove — perfect for hanging out inside during the colder months. The classroom is just down the hall from the dorms.

It may be a surprise for you to suddenly be out in the country, but our students come to love the Training & Retreat Center. It is very peaceful and our students develop a lively community because of all the activities they can do together.

Other times of year, we host DTS at our Global Missions Center on the Northside of Madison, or at our discipleship house for university students on campus downtown Madison.

Phase Two is the Outreach portion of DTS. It is where you practice hands-on discipleship.

For ten weeks, live what you learned in class through cross-cultural service, team building, and evangelism as you go out in teams to other nations.

Each outreach is different. During the lecture phase, staff and students pray and seek God for the details and specific focus for each team. It’s exciting to work with God this way!

Check out our blog for exciting stories from the field. Some of these stories could be yours someday!