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Earn Your Ph.D. or Masters Degree At Your Own Pace from Your Own Place

Studies are achieved via Distance Learning. Work with Skilled Mentors in Faculty Guided Doctoral or Masters Degree Studies and/or Associated Research.

  •  Ph.D. or Masters degree in indigenous beliefs, customs, practices, values and cultural antecedents and/or in counseling. These studies prepare counselors for rigorous demands of the profession.
  • Ph.D. or Masters degree in sacred practices. These studies prepare spiritual leaders for more effective ministry.
  • Ph.D. in Religious Studies. These studies prepare educators for quality leadership in the field of religious education in Tribal (Western Hemispherical) ceremonies, practices and other cultural institutions.

              DEVELOP YOUR OWN DOCTORAL & MASTERS DEGREE PLAN

Individualized Degree Plans

Doctoral candidates participate with mentors in developing faculty-guided curriculum for degree plans that fulfill your personal interests and meet your professional goals.

Curriculum-Based Degree Plan

Faculty-directed curriculum designed to satisfy academic requirements for professional certification or licensure. Whether faculty-guided or faculty-directed, each Ph.D. degree plan employs disparate learning methods appropriate to the degree candidate, including distance learning methods, e.g.: via email, independent study, a tutorial relationship, correspondence courses, on-site and off-site seminars. These enable studies and research conducted at diverse locations throughout the world. Doctoral candidates conduct their work from their own place, without or creating unnecessary burdens on family or professional engagements. Ideally, each doctoral researcher’s studies bear upon the candidates' professional activities and contribute to the degree plan.

Each Ph.D. candidate, supervised by geographically dispersed scholars, completes doctoral program requirements without sacrificing academic, intellectual or spiritual integrity.

Experiential Learning

AMIU applicants are expected to be highly motivated mid-career professionals. In special cases, one’s on-going on-the-job experiential learning opportunities can become a natural part of any candidate’s degree fulfillment. Carefully proven up experiential learning is reviewed to ascertain if it is credible part of scholar’s daily study possibilities.

Open Admissions

Nontraditional educational delivery systems extends graduate education opportunities to skilled individuals who may  not have a traditional academic background, but demonstrate equivalent learning and skills to engage in doctoral level studies and research.

Tuition and Fees

Your costs depend on the degree you are completing and the methods you use to fulfill its requirements; and a scholar may make regular contributions in lieu of fixed fees. Doctoral candidates are advised about tuition and fees once they submit a degree plan and AMIU approves the same. This institutions seeks to provide distance education at the graduate level at moderate costs. Applicants are advised during the degree plan development process about ways to reduce cost without sacrificing quality in their graduate degree. We are committed to native American, minority, female and foreign-born indigenous scholars. Scholarships and grants will be sought to help any authenticated indigenous applicant to overcome a lack of the ability to pay costs.

For guidance or information, contact: the University Consultant

Udated 10-14-08. Note our Board of Directors invites professionals to join them as they redesign all offereings made in in English, Chinese or Spanish. AMIU is intent upon having a faculty with renown stature and students and scholars coming from all walks of life.