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Bible College of the Florida Keys A Curriculum for Life

The threshold

Keys residents may apply.

We seek men and women who desire a serious, Scripture-centered education woven into real discipleship. Take one course or the entire degree. Admission is selective and personal — each application is read with care.

One course or the whole bachelor's. Either is an honest beginning.

This place

Admissions is open to Florida Keys residents because formation happens here: mentoring, worship, and accountability in community. Reading and writing are done through the Student Portal. The college has no campus. Life in the Keys is not easy. We built the college for that.

Without tuition

There is no bill. The college is privately funded by the founder and receives no money or benefits from the government. Required texts are in the public domain. A student who finishes the bachelor's does so without tuition or textbook fees.

At this standard

BCFK is unaccredited — deliberately so. Accreditation certifies institutional compliance, not academic excellence; students in theological education can easily exceed $100,000 in costs over graduate and post-graduate study. Independence frees BCFK to require more than 438,000 pages of reading, study in four languages, and original research in a tuition-free bachelor's curriculum. The full statement is on About BCFK.

Articles of admission

What we ask of an applicant

  1. Residence in the Florida Keys. Study is joined to discipleship on this soil, not to a login.

  2. A completed application. The form is short. We read it ourselves.

  3. A personal testimony of faith in Jesus Christ. Not a party line — a truthful account of the faith you actually hold.

  4. A pastoral or character reference. Someone who knows your life, not only your résumé.

  5. A high school diploma or equivalent. Prior college credit is not accepted. Other programs are not the same work.

Before enrollment

What an applicant should know

These are the college's written disclosures to prospective students. Submitting an application is not enrollment. The college does not enroll a student until at least seven days after the applicant has had this statement.

Purpose

Bible College of the Florida Keys offers religious instruction for Florida Keys residents. The work prepares students for religious vocations as ministers and as laypersons in ministry and theology.

Program

The college offers one degree, the Bachelor of Arts in Biblical Studies: forty courses across eight semesters. A student who completes the catalog reads more than 438,000 pages. A student may also take one or two courses without completing the degree. The curriculum is the course catalog and the degree page.

Place of study

The college has no campus and no classrooms. Reading, quizzes, and research are done through the Student Portal. Mentoring and worship are local, among Florida Keys residents. The college is administered in Marathon, Monroe County, Florida.

Licensure and accreditation

BCFK is not accredited by a recognized accrediting agency. BCFK is not licensed by the Florida Commission for Independent Education. The Bachelor of Arts in Biblical Studies is a religious credential of this college. It is not a Florida professional or occupational license, and it does not authorize practice of a state-licensed profession.

Cost and withdrawal

There is no tuition and no fee to apply, enroll, or withdraw. The college does not participate in federal or state student aid, and a student incurs no debt to the college. Required texts are in the public domain. If a student withdraws or is dismissed, the college retains nothing, because nothing was collected.

Transfer of credit

BCFK does not accept transfer credit from other institutions. The college does not represent that its courses, or the Bachelor of Arts in Biblical Studies, will transfer to any other school. Another institution decides that for itself.

Admission

Before admission, the college reads the application, the testimony of faith, the pastoral or character reference, and proof of a high school diploma or equivalent, and judges whether the applicant can undertake the reading. Prior college work is not accepted as credit.

Complaints, discipline, and appeals

A student or applicant may write to contact@bcfk.org. State what happened and what you are asking the college to do. The college answers in writing.

An instructor decides questions of academic work and conduct in a course. A student may appeal that decision in writing to the Founder and Chief Executive Officer. The written decision on appeal is final.

A complaint about the Founder and Chief Executive Officer may be sent to the same address and will be answered in writing.

The process

How an application moves

  1. You write Complete the application. One course or the full degree — say which you intend.
  2. We read A member of the college reviews the submission. There is no automated decision.
  3. We reply You will hear by email, not by a portal notification. An offer of admission is not enrollment. Enrollment begins no sooner than seven days after you have had the written disclosures above.

The full Bachelor of Arts in Biblical Studies requires more than 438,000 pages of reading, and that standard does not change. It is also perfectly acceptable — and encouraged — for Keys residents to take only one or two courses. Education is valuable whether or not you pursue the entire curriculum. Life here is not easy. We know that. You may pause and resume a course up to three times (eight weeks each, with instructor approval) before an administrator needs to sign off, stretching a single course across as much as a year.

A student who completes the Bachelor of Arts in Biblical Studies finishes forty courses, more than 600 volumes of required reading, over 16,000 quiz questions, and nearly 1,000 pages of original research. That is the graduate standard. It is not what we ask of someone who enrolls in a single course. See the catalog, the degree, or the FAQ before you write.

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Direct mail: admissions@bcfk.org