MA Course is:
- Training of a new generation of highly qualified church personnel, researchers and analysts
- Development of church-wide Master’s standards
- Adapted credit transfer system: Bologna standard and the Russian Federation Generation III standard
- A platform for inter-university methodological cooperation
- Joint Masters programs: faculty and students exchange
- External Church Relations major – a unique specialisation in the Orthodox education system
- Christian Source major is a methodology of work with biblical, liturgical and patristic primary sources