Bhaktivedanta College is a Vaishnava university administered by ISKCON. The college opened in 2002 and aspires to be a Krishna institution. The main offering of the college is the Ministerial Program. This program educates devotees to become preachers, teachers, leaders, scholars, and managers. Vaishnavism is the branch of Hinduism in which Vishnu or one of his avatars (i. ... The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) is a new religious movement based on Bengali, or more specifically Gaudiya, Vaishnavism founded by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, referred to by followers as His Divine Grace, in New York in 1966. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lord Krishna Krishna (कृष्ण, Sanskrit for black), is, according to common Hindu tradition, the eighth avatar of Vishnu. ...

Bhaktivedanta College is in partnership with the University of Wales, Lampeter (UWL), an acknowledged center for Theology and Religious Studies in the UK. This partnership enables Bhaktivedanta College to offer accredited academic courses for which students are awarded certificates and diplomas, leading to a degree. The University of Wales, or Prifysgol Cymru in Welsh, is a federal university founded in 1893. ...

The campus of the College is Radhadesh, set in the hilly rural Ardennes region of Belgium. Radhadesh is a vital devotee center for ISKCON and receives tens of thousands of visitors a year. The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) is a new religious movement based on Bengali, or more specifically Gaudiya, Vaishnavism founded by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, referred to by followers as His Divine Grace, in New York in 1966. ...

Presently Bhaktivedanta College is in the process of sending student to the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, while relying on PhD graduates of OCHS for profesors; one example of this is the Vaishnava theologian Kenneth R. Valpey. The Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, founded in 1997, is an independent academy for the study of Hindu culture, religion, languages, literature, philosophy, history, arts and society. ... Vaishnavism is the branch of Hinduism in which Vishnu or one of his avatars (i. ... Kenneth R. Valpey is a Gaudiya Vaishnava Theologian who studied at Oxford University, St Cross College (1999 - 2004). ...