page_title: Bhaktivedanta College
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Bhaktivedanta College / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Satsvarupa das Goswami and his disciple Yadunandana Swami in DE, USA (Yadunandana Swami and Satsvarupa dasa Goswami in 2009)
context_page_description: Bhaktivedanta College, located in Durbuy in the rural Ardennes region of Belgium, is a Vaishnava college administered by ISKCON. Programmes of study at Bhaktivedanta College include the study of Vaishnavism.
context_section_description: The college was opened by ISKCON in 2002 and aspires to be a Vaishnava university. The main offering of the college is the Ministerial Program.  This program educates devotees to become preachers, teachers, leaders, scholars, and managers.
  Bhaktivedanta College is part of the educational vision for ISKCON developed by its Ministry of Educational Development. The Ministry creates institutes of higher education in Vaishnava Theology.
caption: College Principal, Yadunandana Swami (right), during summer 2009 with Satsvarupa das Goswami (left)
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