The University of Denver is proud to offer the Bachelor of Arts Completion program. This career-relevant, convenient, and high-quality degree is designed for working adults who have completed at least one year of undergraduate credit and want to build on those credits to become a University of Denver graduate.
Bachelor’s completion worthy of working adults
You shouldn’t have to sacrifice quality for flexibility and relevance in your education. And at University College you don’t have to. We are dedicated to helping adults who are serious about completing their degrees do so, online and evenings, while working full-time. That’s why we’ve loaded this program with features that adult learners deserve, and you won’t find in other programs – the kind of complete package with experiences and portable skills that truly add value for working adults. It’s what you’d expect from the University of Denver.
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Fresh Start
With a credit transfer policy that’s appropriate for working adults, we take the guesswork out of transferring your past credits into our program. You’ll have a fresh academic start in this program because instead of trying to match your courses to a set of requirements like other programs, which may arbitrarily limit the number of your transferable credits, we treat your first 96 transferable credits as electives - no hassles.
Skills You Can Use Now
In addition to the overarching program outcomes – creativity, critical thinking, knowledge utilization, decision making, empowerment, and effective communication – students will gain practical, real-world, major-specific skills that they can begin using right away, like; leadership skills, budgeting techniques and financial forecasting methods, persuasive writing and speaking techniques, and project management.
Flexible Scheduling
You can complete your degree by taking classes evenings on campus, online, or a combination of both. Whatever works best for your schedule.
Earn Your Bachelor’s and Master’s
We’ve developed a streamlined dual degree option for those who are not only interested in completing their bachelor’s degree but are also interested in earning a master’s degree. Students, who qualify, can reduce the time of earning both degrees by eight credit hours.
Civic Engagement
The Civic Engagement project provides students with an opportunity to identify a community need, learn how that need is or is not being addressed, and get engaged in a particular set of service activities for an agreed upon duration of time – real solutions.
Study Abroad
The International Experience is our take on study abroad for adults. This is an intense seven-day experience outside of the United States (travel and lodging expenses are included in normal tuition) designed for you and your classmates to be immersed in another culture while evaluating that culture and yours. The topics you study come alive in this invigorating and engaging experience. Developing your global perspective is an invaluable part of your undergraduate experience and our students love it.
Video: BACP International Experience
Career Center
As part of the University of Denver, students can draw on the rich resources of this world-class campus including the DU Career Center. Students and alumni can get career support in areas like career assessment, resume development, interviewing coaching, and much more.
Far from 101
At University College, we believe that earning a bachelor’s degree should be more than just courses on a piece of paper - it should be a life-changing experience. That’s why we meet students where they are in their lives now as working adults, not where they were when they started their degree years ago. Instead of asking you to repeat introductory first-year subjects, we present you with courses that are far from 101 – courses that are more advanced and appropriate for your experiences as a working adult. We focus on providing you with applied content that you can use right away.
Choose the major that best fits with your current career, or where you would like to take your career. Earn your Bachelor of Arts in one of the following areas:
Communication Arts
Leadership and Organization Studies
Public Policy and Social Services
Science and Technology
Global Studies
Choose one of five interdisciplinary majors, all of which involve advanced study in arts and sciences subjects relevant to the careers of working adults. Regardless of the major you choose, you’ll begin your program with a series of courses that all students take called the Common Learning experience. It is here where you develop advanced skills in writing, critical thinking, problem solving, and scientific reasoning, as well as conversancy with key issues of the day - the intellectual skills needed for creative and strategic thinking in a global environment.
These courses should not be thought of as introductory courses—they are not 101 anything—but rather as a challenging set of relevant interdisciplinary courses offered at an advanced level.
The Right Degree for a New Era
In order to be part of the creative and dynamic workforce so vital to the information age, you need the highly developed talents most valued by organizations today.
We asked business and civic leaders what those talents were, and they responded clearly:
- Ability to communicate effectively
- Solve problems
- Think creatively
- Handle multiple tasks
- Make sound decisions
- Understand and use technology, and
- Be productive on teams.
Developing these talents is the focus of this degree.
If you are willing to be an active learner in stimulating courses with lively discussions, you will thrive in this program. Instead of asking you to repeat introductory first-year subjects, we present you with Common Learning courses that are more challenging and appropriate for your experiences as a working adult. Subjects are drawn from the real world and approached from the viewpoints of several relevant disciplines. You gain the ability to solve problems and make strategic decisions, by considering multiple options and weighing their possible outcomes. That’s what today’s professional needs for success in a highly competitive and increasingly global society.
Our mission, in short, is to offer you a 21st Century adult-level education.
The Six Critical Outcomes
The Bachelor of Arts Completion Program is designed to bring about six learning outcomes critical for your success at work and in living a satisfying and productive life.
- Creativity: the ability to conceptualize and rework problems, and to generate solutions to those problems that open up new worlds of knowledge.
- Critical thinking: the skill of analyzing and defining issues, developing an appreciation for multiple viewpoints, and generating well-crafted arguments.
- Knowledge utilization: the ability to find useful information, ideas, concepts, and theories, to synthesize them and build on them, and to apply them in the workplace as well as personal life.
- Decision making: the ability to analyze options and outcomes for decisions in terms of their values and effects and to make decisions that are rational, legal, and ethical.
- Empowerment: the confidence that comes from knowing how to act, when to act, and how to respond to the opportunities and constraints that affect your efforts to get things done. With a sense of empowerment comes the ability to lead and bring about change for the good.
- Effective communication: knowing your audience and learning how to empathize with it; reading, writing, and speaking effectively; making presentations that are persuasive and entertaining; and arguing to powerful effect.
contact our program
- Program Contact
Natalie Kelton - Academic Director
John Hill
Academic Advisor
| Undergraduate Oncampus | $438 per credit |
| Undergraduate Online | $456 per credit |
At the University of Denver our aim is to provide you with the most up-to-date and relevant subjects. Equally important is your total learning experience - the topics you study, the active learning environment, the insights and perspectives you gain, and the motivation and support you receive from other students, faculty, and staff. As a motivated working professional you will become part of a learning community of students like yourself. Whether you attend in the evenings on campus or study online, classes will be small and the instructor’s attention will be personal.
Our annual schedule is intended as a planning tool, which reflects what classes will be offered and in what format through the upcoming calendar year. This schedule may adjust throughout the year based on course cancellations or the addition of course sections based on student demand.