The University Experience at APUS

Respected. Affordable. Online.

Respected

Through our two Universities, we offer over 70 online degree programs across a wide range of subject areas, including history, fire science, English, space studies, environmental science, sports management, homeland security, disaster management and more. We offer certificate, associate, bachelor’s and master’s programs.

Students

APUS students are active, working adults and military professionals in the U.S. and in over 130 countries. Many have worked in their professional fields for more than 15 years, holding positions at organizations that include major corporations and industry associations as well as government organizations such as the Transportation Security Agency (TSA), the New York Police Department (NYPD), and the State Department, just to name a few.

APU has more than 9,000 alumni across a variety of fields, including healthcare, IT consulting, logistics management, hospitality, government agencies and contractors, and more.

Our graduates and students include:

• a mission specialist for NASA
• a working mom who is a customer service specialist in the healthcare industry
• a counter-sniper agent for the secret service
• an investment analyst for a leading pension fund
• a former NFL star
• a history teacher in Iowa
• and many other working adults in across the globe

Take a brief online video tour, hosted by our Provost, Dr. Frank McCluskey to learn more about student life at APUS and the online learning experience.

Faculty

Our faculty combines relevant theory with real-world experience. Their academic credentials include such institutions as the University of Chicago, University of Notre Dame, Stanford University, Cambridge University, and Harvard University. Many are executives in government, business and non-profit organizations, including the United Nations, the State Department, the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

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Affordable

We do not want costs to get in the way of your education and have streamlined our tuition and fees to make it easy for you to estimate and cover any expenses. Our tuition rate is $250 per credit hour for undergraduate-level courses and $275 for graduate-level courses. Audited courses cost $100 per credit hour.

All undergraduate students seeking academic credit are eligible for the Course Materials Grant. This grant provides textbooks, e-books, and other course materials at no cost to the student for all credit-bearing courses successfully completed. Graduate students and any student in an audit course must purchase their course materials.

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As an accredited institution, APUS is eligible to participate in federal educational entitlement programs such as military tuition assistance, government tuition reimbursement programs, the Department of Veterans Affairs GI Bill, and many corporate education assistance programs. Credits and degrees earned through APUS are therefore recognized for promotion, assignment, and position qualification standards within the military and federal government.

Online

Our courses are taught online, are available as 8 or 16 week sessions and start monthly, offering total flexibility for working adults.

APUS goes with you wherever you go. All courses are delivered over the Internet with no specific login times required. Simply log on and download your assignments whenever it’s convenient.

Transparency by Design

American Public University System is proud to be a founding member of the College Choices for Adults: Transparency by Design initiative.

Transparency by Design is a groundbreaking initiative that will assist adult learners in becoming educated consumers of distance education. The initiative's members are a consortium of regionally-accredited, adult-serving, distance education institutions. The Transparency by Design initiative chose WCET, a division of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, to provide quality assurance on the standards of data reporting jointly developed by the charter institutions.

In late 2008, Lumina Foundation for Education provided a grant to WCET to fund the development of the Transparency by Design initiative and the College Choices for Adults website. The Transparency by Design initiative supports Lumina Foundation for Education's mission to ensure that 60 percent of Americans are college-educated by 2025.