ERMC Course Fees

Ordinands and Readers in Training

If you are accepted as an Ordinand or on the Licensed Lay Ministry programme, your fees will be paid directly to ERMC by your sponsoring church. This will cover all your training, teaching session and, where part of your programme, attendance at summer schools and residential weekends.

Ordinands may claim reimbursement of travel costs from Ministry Division, which also provides a small book grant. Dioceses have different policies regarding Reader/LLM students.

Independent students

As an Independent student, you are responsible for paying your fees yourself. The fees for the 2023/24 academic year are:

Accredited Study towards a Durham Common Award (part time students must take between 40 and 90 credits a year):

10 credit Module £550.00

20 credit Module £1,100.00

40 or 60 credit Dissertation Module £1,100

Reduced fees may be available for students in ministry or preparing for ministry in one of our partner dioceses. Please contact us for further details.

Auditing Modules.  You may apply to audit any module offered by ERMC, this involves completing the class preparation and participation in the module classes.

10 credit Module is £75.00

20 credit Module is £150.00