So I got bored tonight after a few beers and started looking up school stuff. I came across a listing of doctorates on Wikipedia. I saw several religion based ones, such as Doctor of Divinity (D.D.), Doctor of Sacred Theology (S.T.D.), Doctor of Theology (Th.D.), Doctor of Ministry (D.Min., D.M.), and so on.

The more I looked into these, I noticed that lots of the schools offering these degrees were not regionally or nationally accredited. They are seminaries.

One school's website said "Accreditation is not equivalent to direct "Government Recognition". To the best of our knowledge, the US government does not get into recognizing Theological Schools." Another school stated that due to the religious nature of the program, the school does not recognize the accrediting standard used by secular agencies.

So I guess my question is, if one were to earn one of these degrees, does accreditation, or lack thereof, really matter?

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Jesse
BA in Liberal Studies, Thomas Edison State College, 2008