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Antioch University Online
Antioch University Online provides learner-centered education to empower students with the knowledge and skills to lead meaningful lives and to advance social, economic, and environmental justice.
Our students not only demonstrate the core competencies that are required for career success but instigate change and have a positive impact on the world. As an Antioch University online student, you’ll discover how to unite your passion with purpose. It’s time to take a stand, for yourself, and what matters most to you.
Programs Offered
- Business, Leadership & Management
- Counseling, Therapy & Wellness
- Interdisciplinary Studies
- Undergraduate Studies
OVERVIEW
Technology, globalization, and cultural shifts are changing the way we interact, defying what we constitute as the norm. Evolving advancements, both technically and culturally, have changed the way that business is conducted. We place an emphasis on your practical professional development, building on foundational knowledge to increase savviness and adaptability to developing trends. Our programs are designed to train effective team managers, champion ethical business practices, and develop the next generation of business leaders.
DEGREES IN BUSINESS, LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT
BA in Liberal Studies, Leadership for Service and Change
You’ve proven yourself as a worthy employee within your organization, and now you want to channel your ambitions towards upper-level management. Our bachelor of management degree will help you learn how to effectively lead and engage a workforce through strategic and systematic management decisions. You’ll then be capable of leveraging new knowledge and enhanced leadership skills to take a human-centric approach to management, increasing productivity and building a more positive workplace.
BS in Applied Technology and Business Leadership
Antioch University Online’s bachelor’s in applied technology and business leadership degree blends academic course work with your professional experiences with the goal of enhancing your career. You’ll develop a broadened outlook to support your ongoing development as a well-rounded professional.
Master of Business Administration
Antioch’s MBA is designed as a series of 7-week online courses taken one course at a time. It’s a demanding program – but work-life balance is important, and graduate school needs to fit into your life.
- 36-credits. Earn your MBA in two years or less
- 100% online learning, 24/7 access to classwork and resource for convenience
- Three entry points – begin your MBA in January, May, or September
- No GMAT required. We value you and your experiences
Hands On – Online
- Online does not mean isolated! Faculty are active practitioners in their field. They are engaged and present throughout the class. Video, audio, guest speakers, and other tools keep things vibrant and moving forward
- Your classmates are just as intelligent, engaged, and purpose-driven as you are
- You’ll love networking and learning from each other
- We’re an active member of Net Impact. With over 300 chapters in nearly 40 countries, Net Impact programs help new leaders broaden their thinking, build their networks, and scale their impact beyond just individual action, you’ll have an opportunity to participate in special projects and innovative initiatives.
MA in Nonprofit Management
Are you looking for a way to make a greater difference in the world? Do you desire to work more effectively toward equity and justice—from human services and environmental issues to the arts, culture, education, and more? Join a community of people who want to bring positive change—while also building a career and earning a livable income.
Antioch University is a nonprofit institution that has prioritized making a difference for nearly 170 years. When you enroll in our Master of Arts in Nonprofit Management (MANM) program, you join a thriving and committed community—led by a team of faculty with decades of leadership experience who are dedicated to the highest level of academic rigor. Our MANM will support you in building the practical skills, professional network, and knowledge you need to increase your impact, advance your career, and excel at your mission.
Antioch’s MANM is designed for working professionals who are ready for the next step in their career. We have a diverse group of students, from those just starting out in the nonprofit world to people who already have leadership positions in agencies and institutions.
MHSA in Human Services Administration
Antioch’s Master’s degree in Human Services Administration (MHSA) prepares service-minded practitioners who seek the skills and knowledge to lead in organizations where they can help have a positive impact on the lives of others. Whether you want to advance your current career or pursue a role as an executive director, grant writer, or program manager, our master’s degree program could help you meet your educational goals.
EdD in Educational & Professional Practice
The Doctor of Education in Educational and Professional Practice is intended for professionals who use educational practices in the service of social, economic and environmental justice, in schools and beyond. The program is designed with working adults in mind. Classes are offered online, with a four-day, face-to-face residency each July on one of our campuses. A new cohort will enter the program each summer term and, if you take two courses each term, you should be able to complete the degree in three years. Each semester is launched with a virtual Zoom residency the first Saturday of each term.
You will study with an accomplished, diverse, and caring faculty who will guide you through a transdisciplinary curriculum that integrates scholarship and practice. Your culminating project will be a dissertation that establishes your place among scholar-practitioners who seek workable solutions to complex issues in schools, communities, and national and global settings.
OVERVIEW
Develop the clinical skills that help your clients, while applying your emerging unique professional style. At Antioch University, we leverage experiential learning, internships, research studies, outreach projects and other student participation opportunities to enhance the educational experience beyond the classroom.
DEGREES IN COUNSELING, THERAPY & WELLNESS
MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Antioch’s CACREP-accredited Master’s in Counseling program accepts students from all undergraduate degrees looking to learn how to make a positive impact on those who need help the most. The program prepares you to work as a professional counselor to promote mental health, well-being, and social justice for a diverse, multicultural and global community.
OVERVIEW
Antioch’s online Individualized Studies degrees provide students the opportunity to draw on the strengths of multiple fields and engage with ideas across disciplines. Graduate students learn how to synthesize material from a variety of perspectives and how to address complex problems that cut across disciplines.
ONLINE – DEGREES IN INDIVIDUALIZED STUDIES
MA in Individualized Studies, Humanities
Choose a broad area of study at the beginning of your journey – Social Sciences or Humanities. Each area of focus represents a broad continent of thought and research for you to explore before diving in to a specific focus. This allows us to offer small seminars that you can use early in your programs to learn about your field as your journey is beginning, and can help you to develop a focus.
Start with three Foundations courses to learn broadly about Humanities. In the third course, you’ll work to create an individualized program that helps you achieve your personal and professional aspirations, and which will be vetted by professional scholars in your chosen fields who serve as your Mentors.
Engage with faculty, staff, and other students during three required Colloquia, which will be offered once each trimester. The Colloquia will be held through video conference using Zoom, and will broadly elaborate upon the program’s three foundations – knowledge of the field, doing research in the field, and constructing an individualized program of study. An important aspect of the Colloquia will focus on community building, and will include various speakers, introduce different faculty members, and discuss various readings in smaller disciplinary groups.
MA in Individualized Studies, Humanities
Choose a broad area of study at the beginning of your journey – Social Sciences or Humanities. Each area of focus represents a broad continent of thought and research for you to explore before diving in to a specific focus. This allows us to offer small seminars that you can use early in your programs to learn about your field as your journey is beginning, and can help you to develop a focus.
Start with three Foundations courses to learn broadly about Social Sciences. In the third course, you’ll work to create an individualized program that helps you achieve your personal and professional aspirations, and which will be vetted by professional scholars in your chosen fields who serve as your Mentors.
OVERVIEW
With a bevy of degree programs and concentrations, both traditional students and adult learners can find it difficult to select the right program to achieve their career goals. The Online Undergraduate Studies programs from Antioch University provide the clarity needed for students of all experience levels to enhance their knowledge and earn a degree to move ahead in their field.
UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES
BA in Applied Studies
If you’ve gained valuable technical expertise through your current trade but long for career or personal advancement, then an Applied Studies degree can help you maximize the skills you have while satisfying your passion for learning. We help you expand upon your practical knowledge, building on the foundation that you’ve worked so hard on to this point. By understanding complex social and ethical issues and fine-tuning your written and verbal communications skills, you’ll be poised to solve the problems leaders in your profession face every day.
BA in Human Development
Social challenges are constantly evolving as the traditional roles, lifestyles, and conceptions of identity change alongside public policy. Learn to address the changing social structures of contemporary society and their impact on the growth of individuals and families in various cultural contexts. By understanding human development and how it is affected by cultural perspectives, you will be prepared to empower infants, children, adolescents, adults, and elders with the life skills necessary to navigate our constantly evolving society.
BA in Human Services Administration
Our Human Services Administration degree will give you the skillset to become a leader in your field and move with confidence into supervisory or administrative roles. Understand the diverse functions that occur within organizations to have a comprehensive vision of the wider social context of their inner workings. This new holistic comprehension develops your leadership, analytical and communication skills, as well as knowledge and expertise focused on enhancing the quality of life for individuals, families, and communities.
BA in Liberal Studies, Individualized Studies
Customized studies are a hallmark of the Antioch educational experience. Benefit from a core of interdisciplinary, liberal arts courses—building foundational skills for any career—while balancing the breadth and depth of specialized topics relevant to your educational interest. The online BA in Liberal Studies offers you the opportunity to align your studies to your interests—not the other way around.
BA in Liberal Studies, Leadership for Service and Change
The Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies, Leadership for Service & Change prepares committed individuals for lives of engagement in social justice work within local or global contexts. The goal of this interdisciplinary program is to prepare organizers, advocates, and changemakers who understand self, their communities and the forces that disadvantage certain groups and individuals within those communities, in order to provide leadership for the common good.
BA in Liberal Studies, Literature and Creative Writing
Antioch University’s online Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies with a concentration in Literature and Creative Writing presents an affordable degree completion option, accelerating your progress toward a career in writing while keeping your financial future intact. This program combines an examination of great works of literature with perspective on how to use them to inspire your own writing.
BA in Management
Antioch University’s online Bachelor of Arts in Management degree is an affordable program that provides a knowledgeable foundation to understand and lead change in a shifting, globally oriented world. You will examine management situations from a systemic perspective and address human, organizational, and community issues; enhance leadership skills, and explore how to diagnose problems and intervene effectively with both individual and group situations. You will also learn how to increase productivity and how to effectively engage the workforce in making important management decisions.
BS in Applied Technology and Business Leadership
The applied technology and business leadership program curriculum include the Interdisciplinary Core, a distinguishing factor of Antioch University Online, that sets Antioch apart from other universities. Through these core courses, you will learn to take your own experiences and relate them to the greater human experience by studying society, culture, literature, and leadership.
Narrative Assessment
Antioch University’s learning philosophy has always been based on individual evaluation and synthesis of what you’ve learned into demonstrated knowledge. At Antioch, we use narrative assessment to provide a meaningful, actionable evaluation of what you’ve learned.
It was about making myself a better person so I can help others help themselves. It enhanced me as a professional. I like the woman I am today because of my experience at Antioch.
The Antioch experience was challenging in exactly the ways getting a degree should be challenging. You will love it, and you will find the instructors are all there to help you through it.
I love that there is a consistent movement toward self-understanding and a deepened connection to real values that emerges from the educational process at Antioch.
The whole experience enabled me to finally pursue a passion that I had wanted to follow for my whole life.
The instructors were amazing. All of them are brilliant, caring, and supportive.
I came to see my writing skill more as something to help people tell their own stories.
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FINANCIAL AID
Many Antioch University students take advantage of our financial aid options to fund their education. Our Financial Aid team can design an aid package based on your eligibility and personal level of need. We’ll help you explore a variety of federal, state, and institutional financial aid options.