ABOUT SAIACS

SAIACS is located in Bangalore, the Garden City of India, almost at the centre of peninsular southern India, and easily reached by road, rail or air. (Getting to SAIACS) The ten-acre campus, set about 13 kilometres from the city centre, is far enough into the countryside to be free of the pollution of the fastest growing city in India.

The buildings are constructed with local materials and echo indigenous forms that are modern, enduring and eye pleasing. The lawns and hundreds of trees and shrubs provide remarkable park-like surroundings. The overall result conveys an outstanding 'spirit of peace'. Indeed the architecture has won acclaim in the journal Architecture and Design (Sept/Oct 1996).

SAIACS is an institute for postgraduate theological studies, Christian leadership training and research, and its distinctives are the pursuit of excellence in God's service, an evangelical ethos and the training of Christian leaders at postgraduate level.

Students are drawn from across India and other south-east Asian countries. SAIACS offers postgraduate programmes for an MA(TS), MA(TS-Adv), MTh, Doctor of Ministry (DMin), Doctor of Missiology (DMiss) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degrees. From 2011, SAIACS will offer an MA in Urban Mission and an MA in Management.

Teaching and research are facilitated by well–qualified faculty members, a spacious library housing 30,000 volumes, and well-planned residential facilities. The Internet Access Laboratory puts research students in touch with scholarship around the world.

In addition to its own burgeoning library students also have access to several large theological libraries elsewhere in Bangalore as SAIACS is a member of the Bangalore Joint Library Council.

The study areas, the residences of students, staff and faculty, and the recreational places are laid out to offer privacy without promoting isolation. As our students, faculty and staff are from geographical, culturally and socially diverse backgrounds, common interactions are encouraged and enriching. The key is community life: the common daily midday meal for all (services staff, students and faculty), the Friday night community meal and Cell Group gatherings, and the regular daily worship in the Chapel.

Consistent with the mission principle, 'Christ must increase and I must decrease,' each building contains an inscription with a prayer. These do not memorialise those who, under God, have made SAIACS possible, but rather remind us of our prayer that all who are here may know the Lord Jesus and effectively make Him known.

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