Beginning in Fall 2026, Maitripa College will inaugurate a new chapter in its graduate programs with the launch of new low-residency models for both the Master of Arts in Applied Buddhism and the Master of Divinity. This transition represents not a departure from Maitripa’s distinctive educational identity, but a deepening of it — an intentional effort to translate our integrated pedagogy of scholarship, meditation, and service into flexible online and hybrid formats that extend access across geography and life circumstance.

Faculty and academic leadership are currently engaged in the careful work of curriculum design and pedagogical development, ensuring that the relational depth, contemplative formation, and lineage-rooted rigor that define a Maitripa education are fully preserved and expressed within the low-residency model. This transformation is being undertaken in alignment with accreditation standards and reflects our commitment to serving a wider community of students who seek authentic, values-driven graduate formation in the Buddhist tradition.