Program overview
The Master of Arts in Ecclesial Administration and Management (MEAM) is a professional degree that prepares clergy for effective and efficient parish and diocesan leadership.
The 30-credit MEAM degree consists in a one-week on-campus intensive immersion session and the balance of the coursework online.
Program Goals
The MEAM program is designed to prepare clergy and laity for effective and efficient leadership by:
- Teaching relevant and best-practice financial and management skills to facilitate the Church’s mission of evangelization and sanctification
- Providing innovative and forward-looking training and practice in financial and management skills necessary to organize, implement, manage, and evaluate material and personnel aspects involved in Church administration with an understanding of the primacy of the supernatural nature of the Church, its mission to evangelize and sanctify
- Preparing students to manage day-to-day administrative responsibilities effectively and efficiently, and so they will best respond to challenges and difficulties that might arise as they carry out their work of evangelization
- Offering students the tools needed to help them identify, solve, and wherever possible prevent potential financial and managerial crises
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Program Requirements
- 30 Credits
- One case study or capstone project
Program Time Limit: 4 years
Application Process
- Complete the free online application for admission.
- Have an official transcript from the accredited institution where you completed your undergraduate degree sent to registrar@cdu.edu.
- Have someone who is familiar with your academic or professional work submit a letter of recommendation to registrar@cdu.edu.
- Submit a brief statement of purpose (250 words or less) to registrar@cdu.edu on why you are pursuing online graduate study in theology.
Students will be notified of acceptance via email shortly after all materials have been submitted and reviewed.
Program Costs
- Tuition: $1,485 x 12 courses = $17,820
- Technology fee: $165/course x 12 courses = $1,980
- Comprehensive Exam fee: $150
- Books: $100/course (estimate) x 12 courses = $1,200
- Total: $21,150
- Detailed cost of attendance budgets can be found here.
Transfer Credit
All courses must be completed at CIU.
Graduate Application
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Course List
| Course Number | Course Title | Credits |
| CANL 520 | Governance Structures in the Church and Canon Law of Temporal Goods | 3 |
| CST 600 | Ethics and the Social Teaching of the Church on Business | 3 |
| PMAS 530 | 3 | |
| PMAS 540 | 3 | |
| PMAS 580 | 3 | |
| FAAM 560 | Ecclesial Accounting and Asset Management | 3 |
| FAAM 570 | Ecclesial Finance and Asset Management | 3 |
| COMM 550 | Transparency and the Spirit of the Enterprise | 3 |
| COMM 610 | Communication Strategies in the Digital Age | 3 |
| COMM 620 | Crisis Management and Accountability to the Faithful | 3 |
Courses are 8 weeks long unless otherwise noted.
THE CDU ADVANTAGE
In a 2022 survey of CDU graduate students, 100% reported that they had achieved their learning goals.
CDU Offers:
- Flexibility to study where and when you choose
- Authentic Catholic teaching
- Affordability
- A global Catholic community
- Knowledgeable and accessible faculty
- Engaging online courses with discussion forums
- Mobile app for study on the go
- Online library staffed by a theological librarian
- 24/7 technical support
The MA program is nationally accredited by the Distance Education Accrediting Commission (DEAC), which is recognized as a national accrediting agency by the U.S. Department of Education and is a recognized member of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation. The university is certified as a degree-granting institution by the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission.
