Opinions on Master's International University of Divinity

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Did you end up enrolling with Master’s International School of Divinity?

No. In the end, I was too uncomfortable with paying tuition for a degree that would be useless in an academic job market. Even though MIUSD would only cost about $2000 (depending of course on how long it actually took to put together the dissertation committee and schedule the defense), spending any money on a degree that would not end in a job I found counterproductive.

I went back and forth between several programs (including Liberty) and was just about to give up on the idea of  a doctorate at all, when someone on a forum (I think this forum) suggested Forge Theological Seminary. I was skeptical, but checked out the program. They are non-accredited (but so is MIUSD and CES), but are also free tuition. They used to have a PhD program but scrapped it and now just have a ThD program.  

FTS is a lot like CES (at least for the ThD program) just without the cost. It is a great program. I enjoyed it.

You might be able to get this program validated through a foreign university and then have a foreign evaluation issued that would give it the equivalency of a regionally accredited degree.

Is there an article or something that shows how to do that? Any examples of such a practice?

Recognition of foreign qualifications (U.S. ED): https://sites.ed.gov/international/recog...fications/

• National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES): https://www.naces.org/members
  
• Association of International Credential Evaluators (AICE): https://aice-eval.org/endorsed-members/