A BA-MA Partnership with Hartford

Dr. Omar Qureshi, provost at Zaytuna

Zaytuna is delighted to announce a new memorandum of understanding with Hartford International University (formerly Hartford Seminary) to establish an accelerated BA-MA track, allowing accomplished BA graduates from Zaytuna College to carry credits forward into the MA in interreligious studies at Hartford upon admission. This renewed partnership reflects the mutual respect between the two institutions and the growing recognition by other academic institutions of Zaytuna’s rigorous curriculum. The agreement allows Zaytuna graduates who are admitted to the Master of Arts in Interreligious Studies (MAIRS) at Hartford to transfer up to twelve credits of upper-division Islamic studies courses into the MAIRS program, fulfilling up to one-third of the required credits. Students will have twenty-four remaining credits and a capstone or thesis left to complete. “Zaytuna College is delighted to partner with Hartford [International University] to continue its decades-long leadership in including a Muslim perspective in the graduate education of religious leaders,” says Dr. Omar Qureshi, provost at Zaytuna. “Graduates of this accelerated BA-MA program will be well-versed in both the Islamic scholarly tradition and the critical ideas and cultural currents shaping modern society, well-equipped to offer vital direction to the communities they will serve. This is a wonderful example of institutional collaboration to achieve our common goals.”