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