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.
THE A.U.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
ONLINE
FLEXIBLE
SELF-PACED
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.
Associate Degree Programs
Build an academic foundation through a degree pathway that can support continued study, broader knowledge, and personal or professional development.
Bachelor Degree Programs
Develop deeper knowledge, analytical abilities, communication skills, and a broader academic perspective through undergraduate study.
Master Degree Programs
Continue academic development through advanced study that encourages deeper engagement with a discipline and more developed professional perspective.
Doctoral Programs
Explore advanced academic study designed for learners seeking sustained intellectual development, deeper inquiry, and higher levels of disciplinary engagement.
Full Course Listing
Review the broader course and program offering to better understand the subjects and academic pathways available across THE A.U.
Explore by School
Discover programs through the academic schools of THE A.U. and begin with the subject area most closely connected to your interests.
Start 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.
School of Safety and Emergency Services
Explore academic pathways centered on preparedness, risk awareness, emergency services, responsible response, resilience, and community-focused thinking.
School of Arts and Sciences
Develop broad intellectual foundations through inquiry, critical thinking, communication, creativity, human understanding, and lifelong learning.
Online 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.
1717 K St NW
Washington, DC 20006
United States
+1-202-773-8688
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.
