Online programs built around your next step.
Explore online degree and certificate programs designed to give learners a flexible path toward academic growth, professional development, and lifelong learning.
Education should give you a direction forward.
Choosing an academic program is about more than selecting a subject. It is about finding a pathway that fits your interests, goals, circumstances, and long-term plans.
THE A.U. provides online degree and certificate programs within an education model built around flexibility, self-paced learning, academic development, and continued progress.
Use this page to explore program categories, discover academic areas, and identify the pathway that best matches where you want your education to take you.
Choose the level that fits your goals.
Certificate Programs
Explore focused academic study for learners seeking knowledge and development in a defined area without beginning with a full degree pathway.
View CertificatesAssociate Degree Programs
Build an academic foundation through a degree pathway that can support continued study, broader knowledge, and personal or professional development.
View Associate DegreesBachelor Degree Programs
Develop deeper knowledge, analytical abilities, communication skills, and a broader academic perspective through undergraduate study.
View Bachelor DegreesMaster Degree Programs
Continue academic development through advanced study that encourages deeper engagement with a discipline and more developed professional perspective.
View Master DegreesDoctoral Programs
Explore advanced academic study designed for learners seeking sustained intellectual development, deeper inquiry, and higher levels of disciplinary engagement.
View Doctoral ProgramsFull Course Listing
Review the broader course and program offering to better understand the subjects and academic pathways available across THE A.U.
View Course ListingExplore by School
Discover programs through the academic schools of THE A.U. and begin with the subject area most closely connected to your interests.
Explore SchoolsStart with the subject area that interests you.
School of Business
Explore business-focused academic development through subjects connected with organizations, decision-making, professional knowledge, leadership, and responsible contribution.
Explore BusinessSchool of Safety and Emergency Services
Explore academic pathways centered on preparedness, risk awareness, emergency services, responsible response, resilience, and community-focused thinking.
Explore Safety & Emergency ServicesSchool of Arts and Sciences
Develop broad intellectual foundations through inquiry, critical thinking, communication, creativity, human understanding, and lifelong learning.
Explore Arts & SciencesOnline education with room for real life.
The A.U. is built around an online learning model that recognizes that adult learners may be balancing education with work, family, professional responsibilities, and other commitments.
Flexible and self-paced study can provide learners with greater control over how they organize their academic progress while keeping their long-term educational goals in view.
ONLINE
Study through an online academic environment without making traditional campus attendance the center of the learning experience.
FLEXIBLE
Approach your education with a model designed to accommodate different schedules and circumstances.
SELF-PACED
Organize your academic progress around a learning approach that gives you greater control over your study rhythm.
More than a credential.
An academic program can help you develop knowledge and habits of thinking that remain useful beyond a single course or qualification.
Knowledge
Build a stronger understanding of concepts, disciplines, ideas, and subjects relevant to your academic pathway.
Critical Thinking
Strengthen your ability to examine information, consider alternatives, evaluate ideas, and make thoughtful judgments.
Communication
Develop clearer ways to organize, express, and communicate ideas in academic and professional settings.
Professional Perspective
Connect academic development with the broader responsibilities, decisions, and challenges encountered beyond the classroom.
Confidence
Progress through meaningful academic goals while developing greater confidence in your ability to learn and apply knowledge.
Lifelong Learning
Build an approach to education that recognizes learning as an ongoing part of personal and professional development.
Take time to consider the subject, credential level, learning format, academic expectations, and long-term purpose of each pathway before making your decision.
From exploration to academic progress.
Explore
Review schools, subjects, credential levels, and online academic programs that match your interests.
Compare
Consider the academic level, subject area, learning model, and personal circumstances that matter to you.
Choose
Select the pathway that best aligns with your educational goals and the direction you want to pursue.
Begin
Move from program discovery toward the next stage of your academic journey with greater clarity.
A university identity connected to the nation’s capital.
THE A.U. is based in Washington, D.C., while its online learning model allows students to pursue their education beyond a traditional campus-based format.
Find the academic pathway that fits your ambition.
Explore THE A.U.’s academic schools and program categories, then take the next step toward an education designed around your goals.
Academic offerings.
Structured with purpose.
THE A.U. maintains an official internal academic program listing through its University governance process and academic schools, while the public website presents selected programs and offerings for general information.
The website is a window into the University’s academic environment.
Public information and institutional authorization serve different purposes. Understanding that distinction helps prospective students make informed academic decisions.
THE A.U. maintains an official internal academic program listing approved through the University’s governance process and administered by its schools.
The University’s public website presents selected programs and academic offerings for general information. The website is not intended to constitute an exhaustive listing of all programs authorized for operation by the University.
Certain programs may be made available through approved University advertising, recruitment, outreach, or admissions channels, subject to applicable institutional requirements and program availability.
More than one pathway can support an academic offering.
The University may administer applicable academic activities through internal processes or through authorized institutional arrangements.
University Academic Administration
Programs may be administered through THE A.U.’s academic schools and internal institutional processes, subject to applicable University requirements and oversight.
Academies & Universities
Where applicable, THE A.U. may operate programs through formal operating agreements with other academies or universities. Such arrangements are subject to appropriate institutional authorization, oversight, and applicable requirements.
ATP Arrangements
The University may also operate through Authorized Training Provider (ATP) arrangements where applicable and approved within the relevant institutional framework.
Lecturers, Instructors & Trainers
Approved lecturer, instructor, or trainer engagements may support applicable academic or educational activities under established University procedures.
Operating arrangements may differ by academic offering. The existence of an operating agreement, ATP arrangement, or external academic engagement does not mean that every program or offering is operated through that structure.
Oversight gives the academic framework its foundation.
The University’s Board of Trustees provides institutional governance and approval of the applicable academic and operational framework.
Academic programs and applicable operating arrangements function within the University’s established governance, approval, oversight, and quality-assurance procedures.
THE A.U. maintains institutional accreditation through ACISC and IABCET, as applicable to the University’s accredited institutional status.
Integrity
Through
Governance.
ACADEMIC FRAMEWORK • OVERSIGHT • QUALITY ASSURANCE
When details matter, use the official channel.
Program Information
Information concerning a particular program, authorization, operating agreement, or academic arrangement may be confirmed through official University channels, subject to applicable confidentiality and disclosure requirements.
Current Availability
For current availability and enrollment information, prospective students should rely on official University communications and admissions channels.
Explore what is presented.
Confirm what applies.
THE A.U. is committed to presenting academic information clearly while recognizing that its public website is one component of a broader institutional, academic, and admissions framework.
Prospective students should review current program information and use official University channels when confirming availability, authorization, or enrollment details for a particular academic offering.
Explore. Understand.
Move forward.
Discover the academic opportunities presented by THE A.U., then connect with official University channels for current program and enrollment information.
