Futhering the Mission

The School of Intercultural Studies was founded to further the Great Commission. To take the story and tell it to all people, in all places. As Biola's founding fathers declared during the early 1900s, "There are thousands of unoccupied fields throughout the land, and more than half of the earth's inhabitants have never heard the Gospel."

Biola's mission since 1908 to impact the world for Jesus Christ has not changed. Missions has always been—and continues to be—at the heart of all programs at Biola University.

Master's, doctoral, baccalaureate, certificate and distance-learning options are available for students to tailor-make the program they want around the core essentials Biola has committed to developing for a century.

SICS consists of three departments:

• The Department of Anthropology, Intercultural Education and Missiology (AIM)
• The Department of Applied Linguistics and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (ALT)
• The Department of Undergraduate Studies

The Beginning of SICS

Biola's School of Intercultural Studies was founded in 1983 with funds received from China, which had confiscated property owned by Biola in 1952. Read more