COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Students can complete University of Colorado Colorado Springs\u2019 degrees in four high-demand fields by completing the final two years of coursework online beginning this fall.<\/p>\n
Students can now complete degrees in business, criminal justice, nursing, and allied health without traveling to campus, according to Venkat Reddy, executive director of online program development. Throughout the spring and summer, UCCS faculty prepared junior- and senior -level courses to be available on line. More than 300 students are expected to enroll for the fall 2011 semester.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese courses, which were developed with the same standards for high quality as our on-campus offerings, will help improve access to UCCS,\u201d Reddy said. \u201cI believe students from Colorado community colleges, those who are serving in the armed forces, or others who must stay closer to home, will benefit.\u201d<\/p>\n
A limited number of spaces in nursing and criminal justice programs are available. For more information, visit www.uccs.edu\/online<\/a>.<\/p>\n For community college students, the addition of online junior- and senior-level online undergraduate courses will allow them to complete degrees while remaining in their home communities. For military personnel who began their education at UCCS or one of the state\u2019s community colleges, online courses allow them to continue their education even if deployed overseas or transferred to another duty station.<\/p>\n \u201cIdeally, as we look in the future and more students will mix online, on-campus and CISCO-technology assisted courses,\u201d Reddy said. \u201cIt is important for students to understand that our online courses are developed specifically and with the highest possible standards. A degree that is completed online will have the same degree of rigor and of quality as one completed while attending classes in person.\u201d<\/p>\n The degrees are offered by three colleges, the College of Business, the School of Public Administration, and the Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences. Each college is accredited by respective national and international accrediting agencies to ensure that standards for faculty and graduation criteria are upheld. These are the first online undergraduate degrees offered by UCCS. Since 1996, UCCS has offered an online Master of Business Administration degree with hundreds of graduates from around the globe as alumni. The Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences, the College of Education, the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the School of Public Affairs also offer master\u2019s degree and graduate certificates online and the Division of Extended Studies offers online courses.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are starting with professional degrees that are in high-demand,\u201d Provost Peg Bacon said. \u201cWe anticipate there will be more.\u201d<\/p>\n The University of Colorado Colorado Springs, located on Austin Bluffs Parkway in Colorado Springs, is one of the fastest growing universities in the nation. The university offers 36 bachelor\u2019s degrees, 19 master\u2019s and five doctoral degrees. The campus enrolls about 9,000 students annually.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Students can complete University of Colorado Colorado Springs\u2019 degrees in four high-demand fields by completing the final two years of coursework online beginning this fall. Students can now complete degrees in (Full Press Release)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pressreleases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":649,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions\/649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}