The Institute of Ecumenical Studies is part of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Western Ukraine. It offers “the first distance learning Master’s program in Ecumenical Studies.” It appears to have a strong emphasis on Orthodox-Catholic ecumenism. The faculty include Eastern Orthodox, Greek Catholics, Roman Catholics and Protestants. I can’t tell whether or not it’s accredited at this point.
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It’s not yet. I’m putting my application in soon.
I assume that there will be some sort of retroactive accreditation, then? Still, I understand UCU is a prestigious enough place.
They are apparently acredited, or approved, by some kind of European agency. But I would like to know if a masters from there would be accepted in the US. Joseph, what do you know about this? I wrote to them to see if I would be accepted and they encouraged me to apply. I mostly want to do it out of interest in the subject, but it would still be good to know that it would mean something if I ever wanted to go on to something else academically. I suppose I ought to ask them…unless, you, Joseph, have already asked and have an answer?
Thanks,
Susan Peterson