How does one get college or graduate credit for the Spiritual Foundations program?
The Spiritual Foundations program is not intended as a full-time college or university course. Its goal is to raise up knowledgeable, articulate teachers of the Bahá’í Faith. But some of the Spiritual Foundations course work is eligible for undergraduate or graduate credit. If you wish to obtain credit, you can work through the college or university in which you are currently enrolled. For a graduate degree you can enroll in the Graduate School of America, which offers flexible degree programs for M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. Depending on your field, all or part of the Spiritual Foundations program can be accreditable through the Graduate School of America. Theoretically, completion of all four years of the Spiritual Foundations program fulfills about half the requirements for a Master’s degree. Other institutions may or may not accept the Spiritual Foundations program for credit. However, in the past, after submission of an official course description from the Wilmette Institute, the Spiri
