Opinions on Master's International University of Divinity

[isaachunter]

If you are okay with unaccredited you can see https://seminary.reformed.info/

You may want to try http://www.theology-gst.com/ 
The degree will be conferred by The Theological University of Apeldoorn 


Both are Reformed

Yes, I have looked at Greenwich School of Theology. Unfortunately, the fine print reveals the student must travel to the school for the dissertation defense. This is not an option for me. Not to mention I'm not very comfortable with non US schools, despite the claims from some that they are equivalently accredited. 

As for Whitefield - I'm sure it's a fine school. But the tuition for the PhD is $8,000. For an unaccredited school this is way overpriced. I can attend CES for $6000 and have the flexibility of designing my own curriculum. MIUD is <$2000 for a PhD. All of these, though, are unaccredited schools. They might serve a great purpose in providing credentials recognized by church leaders but they will not provide legitimacy for researchers or professors in academia (maybe in unaccredited schools, but even those seem to lean toward requiring PhDs from accredited institutions for their faculty). 

What we need is for some (or all) of these unaccredited institutions in the US to step up and follow NationsU in seeking and securing accreditation from a National or Regional accrediting agency while at the same time keeping tuition really affordable. Until then, many students will be barred from advanced academic study or, worse, will be required to take on future economic enslavement (indentured servitude) in order to level the playing field so they can obtain a legitimate degree. 

Alternative: legitimate accreditation changes and is subsequently based on curriculum competency rather than artificial seat time, semester length requirements. If accreditation and legitimacy was based on objective standards of rigor, schools like CES and MIUD would immediately qualify and would not have to change anything. But, I don't see this happening.