About Ashford

Count on Ashford University to provide a high-quality degree program that is:

• Affordable: Benefit from one of the lowest program costs available online.
• Accelerated: Earn your degree in as few as 12-24 months. Plus, you can transfer up to 99 credits toward your Bachelor’s degree.
• Convenient: Enjoy the flexibility of online courses... 24 hours a day.

Pursue your Associate’s, Bachelor’s or Master’s degree. Transfer in up to 99 approved credits toward your Bachelor’s program.

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Associate's Degree

• Associate of Arts in Business
  Earn your Associate of Arts degree in Business and you'll prepare yourself for entry-level work in the field of business and be on a path to a better future. You'll find this 61-credit program is a perfect stepping stone to help you build a foundation that will garner success in the business world. You'll take your classes one at a time for 5 weeks each accelerating your path to completion. Your classes will focus on topics that are important in today's workplace, such as communications, management, marketing and computer literacy. Upon completion of your AAB degree at Ashford, you have the ability to transfer your AAB credits toward any of the Bachelor's degree programs at Ashford.

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Bachelor's Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in Accounting
  Earn your Bachelor of Arts in Accounting degree and develop the necessary analytical, conceptual, and technical knowledge and proficiency in accounting. Build a solid foundation of accounting concepts, skills and practical application to prepare yourself for a wide array of opportunities in the field of accounting. This degree will provide you with the ability to demonstrate fundamental accounting principles and procedures, employ technology tools related to the area of accounting, analyze alternatives to complex accounting problems and utilize and integrate accounting information in business decision-making. Upon graduation, you will possess a practical understanding of these ideas and other important accounting concepts and skills. Transfer up to 99 approved credits toward your Bachelor's degree and accelerate your path to completion.
• Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration
  Earn your Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration degree and increase your project management, critical thinking and leadership skills. Understand relationships between marketing, quantitative theory, accounting, economic principles, and financial, human, and organizational management. Use previous education to personalize this degree when you pair it with a transfer concentration. Transfer up to 99 approved credits and accelerate your path to completion.
  Concentrations
  
  • Business Management
  • Marketing
  • Accounting
  • Finance
  • Hospitality Management
  • Retail Management
  • Computer Science Studies
• Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies
  Extend your reach with your Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies from Ashford University. Upon graduation, you will be well acquainted with modern communications, be highly trained in multicultural communications and conflict resolution, and exhibit advanced persuasion skills. Plus, you can transfer up to 99 approved credits toward this degree and accelerate your graduation.
• Bachelor of Arts in Early Childhood Education
  Launch your career in child development with your Bachelor of Arts in Early Childhood Education from Ashford University. Strengthen your skills while enhancing your understanding of children’s education. Discover all the wonder of Early Childhood Education as you learn ways to apply your knowledge and skills to your career. Upon graduation, you will be acquainted with the education industry, be trained in theories of childhood development, and exhibit advanced instructional skills. And you can transfer up to 99 approved credits toward your Bachelor's degree to accelerate your degree completion.
• Bachelor of Arts in Early Childhood Education Administration
  Break new ground in your education career with your Bachelor of Arts in Early Childhood Education Administration from Ashford University. Realize your potential while enhancing your understanding of children’s education administration. Upon graduation, you will be acquainted with the education industry, be trained in theories of childhood development, and exhibit advanced management skills. A degree in Early Childhood Education Administration will demonstrate your proficiency and competence as an administrator in the education industry. And you can transfer up to 99 approved credits toward your Bachelor's degree to accelerate your degree completion.
• Bachelor of Arts in Health Care Administration
  Earn your Bachelor of Arts in Health Care Administration degree and prepare yourself to pursue a variety of health care administration positions. Build a solid foundation for career mobility among health care professionals. Benefit from an interdisciplinary and integrated learning approach, reflecting the realities of the health care system. Explore health administration, regulation and financing, health care planning and health policy. Delve into the social, political, ethical, legal and economic factors contributing to the complexity of the U.S. Health Care System. You'll find the program integrates the learning needs of health care professionals and others to gain knowledge in health related topics, operations and applications. Transfer up to 99 approved credits toward your Bachelor's degree and accelerate your degree completion.
• Bachelor of Arts in Organizational Management
  Earn your Bachelor of Arts in Organizational Management degree and examine the human side of managing organizations. Learn to allow for skill development in communication, group behavior, decision-making, human resources management and ethics. Personalize your degree when you pair it with a concentration. Use previous education or work experience to enhance your BAOM and customize it more closely with your professional and educational goals. Improve your understanding of how organizations function and develop effective skills in management and leadership. Define and understand strategic planning, financial management, law and marketing and other areas in which an organizational leader must be knowledgeable in order to be effective. Transfer up to 99 approved credits toward your Bachelor's degree and accelerate your degree completion.
  Concentrations
  
  • No Concentration
  • Accounting
  • Applied Behavioral Science (Human Services)
  • Art History
  • Biology
  • Business
  • Business Administration
  • Child Study
  • Communications
  • Computer Science Studies
  • Criminal Justice
  • Culinary Arts Management
  • Early Childhood Education
  • Education
  • Elementary Education
  • Engineering Studies
  • English/Language Arts
  • Foreign Language Studies
  • Health Care Administration
  • History
  • Hospitality Management
  • Human Services Administration
  • Liberal Studies
  • Management
  • Marketing
  • Mathematics
  • Physical Education
  • Political Science
  • Psychology
  • Public Administration
  • Public Safety Administration
  • Recreation
  • Retail Management
  • Sociology
  • Visual Communications


• Bachelor of Arts in Psychology
  Are you interested in human behavior? Earn your Bachelor of Arts in Psychology to build the foundation necessary to continue your education at the graduate level and to pursue a career in psychology. Explore psychology both as an area of scientific investigation and as a health or human services profession so you can apply the learning effectively in careers that involve an understanding of human behavior and leadership development, including business, government, health care and law. As today's workplace continues to evolve, your psychology degree will help you understand how human behavior impacts the dynamics of any organization. Transfer up to 99 approved credits toward your Bachelor's degree and accelerate your degree completion.
• Bachelor of Arts in Public Relations and Marketing
  Explore the many ways in which marketing and public relations shape our modern business world with a Bachelor of Arts in Public Relations and Marketing degree through Ashford University. A Bachelor of Arts in Public Relations and Marketing is a perfect fit if you are interested in pursuing professional careers in marketing, sales, advertising, corporate communications, events planning, or public relations. Find out how the best marketing professionals succeed in capturing potential customers' attention, addressing their needs, and securing their business - all available through an online degree program through Ashford University.
• Bachelor of Arts in Sociology
  Earn your Bachelor of Arts in Sociology degree from Ashford University and discover the intricate framework of relationships between individuals and the societies they create: their composition, organization, culture, and development. Study humans in their individual and collective aspects as well as their economic, social, political, and religious activities. Tackle such areas as social issues, cross-cultural perspectives, community, aging and family. Upon graduation, you will possess a practical understanding of important sociology concepts. Transfer up to 99 approved credits toward your Bachelor's degree to accelerate your degree completion.
• Bachelor of Arts in Social and Criminal Justice
  Earn your Bachelor of Arts in Social and Criminal Justice degree to enhance your understanding of the criminal justice system and the impact social issues have on maintaining a just society. Use your degree to further your professional career in the law enforcement or criminal justice markets. You can benefit from a BASCJ degree to investigate both the social and legal sides of criminal justice, from forensics and psychology to crime prevention and terrorism. Be an instrument for change when you choose the BASCJ degree to better understand the legal and social forces that shape the American culture. Transfer up to 99 approved credits toward your Bachelor's degree and accelerate your degree completion.
• Bachelor of Arts in Social Science
  Earn your Bachelor of Arts in Social Science degree and develop a sound understanding of the society we live in - individuals, families, communities, governments and cultures - from various perspectives. Take a multidisciplinary approach to social sciences where different outlooks are combined and applied to real-world issues. Specialize your degree when you apply approved transfer credits toward a concentration. Choose from over 20 concentrations including Education Studies, Biology, Psychology and more. Adding a concentration allows you to use credit you've already earned and enhances your degree since you can apply the knowledge you've gained toward your studies in the BASS program. Transfer up to 99 approved credits toward your degree and be that much closer to graduation.
  Concentrations
  
  • No Concentration
  • Anthropology
  • Applied Behavioral Science
  • Art
  • Art History
  • Biology
  • Child Studies
  • Communications
  • Criminal Justice
  • Early Childhood Education
  • Economics
  • Education Studies
  • English/Language Arts
  • Environmental Science
  • Geography
  • Health Studies
  • History
  • Human Resources Management
  • Human Services Administration
  • Marketing
  • Mathematics
  • Political Science
  • Psychology
  • Sociology
  • Social Services


• Bachelor of Arts in Sports and Recreation Management
  Apply your love of sports and fitness to the world of business with your Bachelor of Arts in Sports and Recreation Management degree from Ashford University. Build your management and leadership skills while deepening your knowledge of the business aspects of the industry. Your degree will prepare you for managerial positions in professional sports, fitness clubs, athletics equipment merchandising, recreation programs, and more. Plus, you can transfer up to 99 approved credits toward your degree and accelerate your graduation. Score the first of many victories in your career with Ashford.
• Bachelor of Arts in Teacher Certification Program
  Do you have a passion to teach? Earn your Bachelor of Arts in Social Science with an Education concentration and be on your way to becoming a teacher. Take advantage of the partnership between Ashford University and Rio Salado College that allows you, upon graduation from Ashford, to complete the online Teacher Certification program at Rio Salado College. Your BASS/Ed. coursework will help you build a strong foundation and skill development in communication, group behavior and decision-making while your Education concentration will give you a two to four-class head start on your coursework for Rio Salado College. With this partnership, you can earn your BA and Teacher Certification in as few as 2 ^1/2 years.

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Master's Degrees

• Masters of Business Administration
  Expand your academic knowledge and develop professional competence in managing and influencing organizational effectiveness with your Master of Business Administration degree from Ashford University. Improve your professional confidence, project management, and critical thinking and leadership abilities. You may complete a standard program of study or personalize a program which allows you to combine major course credits in Business Administration with 9 semester credits in one of six concentrations in your field of interest: Organizational Leadership, Human Resources Management, Finance, Global Management, Marketing, or Information Systems. Each option contains the required 33 total credits to earn the degree. Gain the edge necessary to accelerate your career growth, enhance your education and elevate your professional position with an MBA from Ashford University.
  Concentrations
  
  • No Concentration
  • Entrepeneurship
  • Finance
  • Global Management
  • Healthcare Administration
  • Human Resources Management
  • Information Systems
  • Marketing
  • Organizational Leadership
  • Project Management
  • Public Administration
  • Supply Chain Management
  
  
• Master of Arts in Organizational Management
  Develop professional competence in a world of rapid change with a Master of Arts in Organizational Management degree from Ashford University. Study organizational change, marketing, decision-making, strategic thinking, and innovation while learning to build an organizational culture that embraces quality and diversity. Explore your choices when you choose the standard MAOM to study an advanced program emphasizing the human side of leadership or add one of three concentrations to enhance the degree. The Organizational Leadership concentration prepares you for leadership roles in the post-modern organization, the Human Resources Management concentration prepares you to manage the organization's human capital, and the Global Management concentration prepares you for international and multicultural management.
  Concentrations
  
  • No Concentration
  • Global Management
  • Healthcare Administration
  • Human Resources Management
  • Organizational Leadership
  • Project Management
  • Public Administration
  • Supply Chain Management


• Master of Arts in Teaching and Learning with Technology
  Earn your Master of Arts in Teaching and Learning with Technology to stay on the "cutting edge" of the 21st century classroom or training room while preparing yourself for career advancement. Discover how technology-based teaching and training practices have the potential to greatly enhance the effectiveness of the learning experience for K-12 students and trainees. Embark on a variety of course offerings that will allow you to gain confidence and skills to apply technology tools in your individual classrooms and/or training rooms and to serve as a resource for other teachers and employees. Focus on the selection and use of technology to assist with individual differences, classroom management, foundations of education and blending the profession of teaching/training with technology.

Ashford University is regionally accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.ncahigherlearningcommission.org

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