Government Recognized and Authorized to Grant Degrees

RAM Bible Institute and Seminary has received official government recognition and authorization to grant degrees in the states of Florida and Texas.

Florida: In compliance with Section 1005.06(1)(f) of the Florida Statutes regarding religious institutions, RAM Bible Institute and Seminary is registered and authorized to grant degrees by the State of Florida Department of Education – Commission for Independent Education.

Texas: The Texas Department of Education recognizes RAM Bible Institute and Seminary, a state-registered non-profit seminary, as having complied with Section 1005.06(1)(t) of the Texas Statutes pertaining to religious institutions. The degree programs offered by RAMBIS have been declared exempt from the requirements for licensure under the provisions of the Texas State General Statutes.

This government-level recognition and authorization in both Florida and Texas underscores RAMBIS’s legitimacy and standing as an accredited institution empowered to award academic credentials, including certificates, associate, bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees.

Accreditation and Degree Programs

All courses and degree programs offered by RAM Bible Institute and Seminary are fully accredited by several prestigious accrediting bodies:

• Accrediting Association of Bible Schools and Theological Institutions
• American Bible College Accreditation
• Accredited CTI Affiliate Chaplaincy Training Institution
• National Bible College Association

As an accredited institution, RAMBIS is authorized to grant a range of academic credentials, including:

• Certificates
• Diplomas
• Chaplaincy Certification
• Associate Degree
• Bachelor’s Degree
• Master’s Degree
• Doctoral Degree

This non-governmental accreditation is extended exclusively to private Christian institutions like RAMBIS, after a rigorous inspection and approval process of our programs, operations, and institutional integrity.

The accreditation from these respected agencies provides assurance that RAMBIS meets high standards of educational quality and curriculum. Our accredited status demonstrates our commitment to delivering a top-tier biblical and theological education to our students.

OUR ACCREDITATION

ACCREDITATION DEFINED

Accreditation is the act of certifying that an educational institution maintains suitable standards; the granting of approval to an institution of learning by an official review board after the school has met certain requirements. Specifically, accreditation is the review of a school’s course offerings and procedures by a group of its peers to certify that that school is meeting its own stated objectives and offering its students the education it promises them. What ordination is to a minister; accreditation is to a school.

SEPARATION OF CHURCH & STATE

• There is secular education and there is religious education.
• Secular schools seek secular accreditation, and sacred schools receive sacred accreditation — each by their own peers.
• Religious institutions need no secular accreditation.
• Secular accreditation associations in turn are recognized by governmental agencies. They trace their authority back to the capitol of a country, like Washington, D.C.
• Religious accrediting associations are recognized by the Church of Jesus Christ, which has no supreme central office on earth. Our authority is derived directly from Heaven.
• Civil and religious interests are different and have separate realms of jurisdiction.
• The State is not superior to the Church. The Church need not wait for approval from the secular world.
• Civil agencies should not be dictating standards of Christian education, any more than a police officer should be directing the worship of God.
• Church Related Schools should not be accredited by accrediting associations that are “recognized” by an agency of the federal government, because it is contrary to the principle of “Separation of Church and State,” indicated by Christ when He said, “…Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s…” (Mark 12:17) .
• What business does a Christian educator have going to the world of unbelievers for recognition and acknowledgement when 2 Corinthians 6:14 clearly tells us, “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness?“
• A Christian educational institution securing accreditation from an association which is attached to a governmental agency is a Scripturally condemned and unholy union as James 4:4 says, “Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God?“

(source: Dr. Paul Richardson, WWAC)