DEGREE PROGRAMS

The School of Adult & Continuing Education is Oklahoma City University's adult degree completion program. It features a flexible and accelerated format with eight-week classes on weekday nights, weekends and online. Through portfolios, you can receive credit for college level work experience and learning. You can choose from the following degree programs.

Oklahoma City University, through its School of Adult & Continuing Education in conjunction with the Meinders School of Business, is proud to introduce its newest degree program—the B.S. in Professional Studies with a Concentration in Accounting. Designed for students who desire a more focused degree than is offered by typical programs in General Business, the 30 credit hours of accounting courses are taught exclusively by faculty from Oklahoma City University’s Meinders School of Business.

The professional studies major with concentration in accounting totals 39 credit hours. Fifteen hours of professional studies major requirements, six hours of which are accounting courses, are supplemented by an additional 24 upper-division hours of accounting courses. Students must complete the School of Adult & Continuing Education’s general education program and additional elective hours may be required to complete the minimum 124 credit hours required for graduation.

This degree meets all course requirements for admission to Oklahoma City University’s Master of Science in Accounting degree program.
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Oklahoma City University, through its School of Adult & Continuing Education offers the B.S. in Professional Studies with a Concentration in Business. Designed for students who desire a degree that provides exposure to all major fields of business (accounting, economics, finance, IT management, marketing and management). The 30 hours of business courses are all taught by faculty from Oklahoma City University’s Meinders School of Business and fulfill the prerequisites for entry into the Master of Business Administration offered by the Meinders School of Business.
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Oklahoma City University, through its School of Adult & Continuing Education offers the B.S. degree with a major in Behavioral Studies. The behavioral studies major emphasizes acquiring a knowledge of the influences on human activities revealed through the study of history and analyzed by the behavioral sciences (principally psychology, political science and sociology). Students study what people say and do by analyzing this behavior and the social and political structures in which that behavior occurs. Students learn to clarify, describe and predict behavior, as well as analyze changes in behavior due to individual, social and political factors. Behavioral studies students are prepared for service-related occupations (e.g. human resources and criminal justice, for example) and for graduate studies in psychology, sociology and social work. Some graduate programs mayrequire additional course work. The prerequisite for entering the Behavioral Studies major is Introduction to Psychology.
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Oklahoma City University, through its School of Adult & Continuing Education offers the B.A. in Liberal Studies with a Concentration in Mass Communication. Designed for studentswho desire a degree that provides exposure to all the major areas of mass communications (advertising, broadcast, print media and public relations), the 18 hours of mass communications courses are all taught by faculty members from Oklahoma City University’s award winningDepartment of Mass Communications.
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Oklahoma City University, through its School of Adult & Continuing Education offers the B.A. in Liberal Studies with a Concentration in Organizational Communications. This degree is designed for persons whose career goals entail expertise in oral and written communication within the modern organizational environment (e.g. business, church, military, non-profit organization). The36 credit hour major includes 21 hours of communications studies, business and leadership courses taught by Oklahoma City University faculty members from the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Meinders School of Business.
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Oklahoma City University, through its School of Adult & Continuing Education offers the B.A. degree with a major in Liberal Studies. The Liberal Studies major allows for expanded intellectual inquiry into the areas of study that comprise every university’s general education requirements. In effect, this major allows a student to turn the ideal of a liberally educated person into the focus of his or her entire degree. A liberal education stimulates life-long learning by stressing the development of basic learning skills, such as oral and written communication and analytical and critical thinking, as well as a heightened sensitivity to the aesthetic and moral dimensions of life.
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