NAU Online

Integrate college into your life with NAU Online, and benefit from a high-quality, award-winning, accredited online university education with distance-learning flexibility.


Choose the path that works best for you

Traditional Online

  • Eight week courses
  • Choose the course schedule that works best for you
  • Credit-hour-based tuition rates

Through our nationally recognized Traditional Online programs, you’ll engage in courses that fit your busy life.
You can pursue a fully accredited bachelor’s or master’s degree while maintaining your job and personal
obligations.

Our Traditional Online programs blend flexibility with scheduled progress, and courses are structured and guided
by a dedicated professor.

You won’t have to go it alone—our online platform allows you to:

  • Connect with faculty mentors and peers
  • Participate in discussions and presentations
  • Collaborate on projects, regardless of your location

Competency-Based Online

  • Competency based—get credit for what you know!
  • Weekly start dates
  • Affordable, six month flat subscription rates

Pursue your career ambitions quickly, affordably, and effectively with our innovative, competency-based online program.

Our self-paced Personalized Learning format focuses on your needs. You complete courses and earn credit by demonstrating mastery of a topic. Advance quickly or take your time to understand a difficult concept—the choice is up to you.

  • Fully accredited
  • 100% online
  • Weekly starts
  • All-inclusive tuition, no additional fees
  • Set your own schedule
  • Accelerated degree completion

PURSUE YOUR GREATEST AMBITIONS

NAU understands that everyone’s educational journey starts in a different place. Wherever you are, we’re there to meet you. For more than 30 years, NAU has delivered excellence in distance learning and has evolved into one of the best online university experiences in the nation.

Take bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral classes online and advance your career goals through our fully accredited online programs.

Pursue your greatest ambitions—on your terms—through NAU Online.

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Traditional Online

Our traditional online format blends flexibility with scheduled progress.

Start times

Flexible

Select from multiple start dates to create a course schedule that works best for you

Course Structure

Interactive

Engage with peers and faculty in online discussions and complete online assignments and exams on a set schedule

Support

Regular feedback

Stay on course with direct mentorship and regular communication with your professors

Tuition and fees

Credit-hour based

Pay per credit: tuition and fees are tied to course credits

Programs offered

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Competency-Based Online

Our innovative, Personalized Learning format enables you to take as many courses as you need

Start times

Start whenever

Initiate your six-month subscription at any time

Course Structure

Create your schedule

Complete course modules at your own pace: accelerate your education or take the time to dig in as much as you need

Support

Mentorship when you need it

Enjoy access to faculty, tutors, and other online resources

Tuition and fees

Subscription-based

Pay a flat, six-month subscription rate and take as many courses as you can complete

Programs offered

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Traditional Online

Our traditional online format blends flexibility with scheduled progress.

Competency-Based Online

Our innovative, Personalized Learning format enables you to take as many courses as you need

Start times

Flexible

Select from multiple start dates to create a course schedule that works best for you

Start whenever

Initiate your six-month subscription at any time

Course Structure

Interactive

Engage with peers and faculty in online discussions and complete online assignments and exams on a set schedule

Create your schedule

Complete course modules at your own pace: accelerate your education or take the time to dig in as much as you need

Support

Regular feedback

Stay on course with direct mentorship and regular communication with your professors

Mentorship when you need it

Enjoy access to faculty, tutors, and other online resources

Tuition and fees

Credit-hour based

Pay per credit: tuition and fees are tied to course credits

Subscription-based

Pay a flat, six-month subscription rate and take as many courses as you can complete

Programs offered

86

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