It is in prayer that you will find peace for your soul.
Blessed William Joseph Chaminade
About the Deepahalli Program
The Deepahalli – Dayton Program was
founded in 1998 as the intellectual component of a formation program for
consecrated life that seeks to address these needs. It aims to provide adequate
intellectual formation for consecrated life and at the same time lay the basic
foundation for a life in ministry and for later ministerial specialisations.
It is a three-year programme. It concludes with a double bachelor's degree. One in arts through the correspondence programme of the University of Bangalore. The other in Philosophy or Sociology through courses taught in Bangalore an accredited by the University of Dayton on a fully equivalent basis with courses taught on the main campus in the U.S.A.
The Deepahalli – Dayton Programme is a cooperative venture between the Indian Marianists and the University of Dayton in the United States. The University of Dayton, Ohio, was founded by the Society of Mary in 1850. It enrolls about 10,000 students in Dayton, in its Schools of Arts and Sciences, Education, Engineering and Law. It hosts two special institutes devoted to theological research: the Marian Library and the International Marian Research Institute, affiliated to the Vatican-accredited Marianum in Rome.
Through a cooperative agreement, the University of Dayton works in close association with two other Marianist universities, St. Mary's University of San Antonio, Texas (accredited by the Southern Association of Schools and Colleges) and Chaminade University, Honolulu (accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges). Professors from all three American universities come as visiting instructors and consultants to Deepahalli.
In the ten years since its inception, graduates from the Deepahalli-Dayton Programme have successfully pursued post-graduate study in Education, Social Work, Theology and academic fields such as History, Philosophy and Computer Science, in universities in India, the U.S.A, and Rome.