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A New Home for Intercultural Studies

After 40 years of educating and mobilizing students for service around the world, the Cook School of Intercultural Studies closed at the end of the 2023–24 academic year and relocated most of its programs to Biola University’s Talbot School of Theology. Even with the school’s closure, Biola will continue to equip students to impact the world for Christ through all the disciplines, which includes an understanding of intercultural engagement. For more details regarding the closure, please refer to the university’s official announcement.


The following graduate programs are now housed within Talbot School of Theology. For program information and admissions requirements, please explore your program of interest below.

Clyde and Anna Belle Cook

Honoring the Cook Legacy

The largest student-led missions conference in the world will be named after Biola’s seventh president, Clyde Cook, and his wife, Anna Belle Cook, to honor his legacy as president, missionary and namesake of the university’s former intercultural studies school.

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