The College of Liberal Arts and Education offers degree completion Bachelor of Arts and Science programs designed for post-traditional students. These degree programs are designed to enable students to combine their demanding work/family schedules with the goal of attaining a college education grounded in the development of personal and professional skills and dispositions. The programs provide a blended instructional environment that includes traditional classroom learning, fully online courses and hybrid courses that include both classroom and web-facilitated learning. Advisors work with each student to develop individual academic plans that facilitate degree completion, professional advancement and personal development.
Admission to degree completion programs requires the completion of an Associate of Arts or Sciences degree or completion of the Illinois General Education Core Curriculum (IAI-GECC). In addition to the major requirements, all degree completion students must complete Philosophy 150: The Examined Life and at least one religious studies course at Saint Xavier University. These courses embody the commitment of the Catholic intellectual tradition to the development of the whole person through liberal education.
Degree completion students who do not hold an associate's degree may complete the Saint Xavier Degree Completion Core in conjunction with a major curriculum.
Additional information about evaluation of transfer college credit, ACE credit, CLEP and credit for prior learning is available in the Credit for Prior Learning section of the catalog.
Degree Completion Programs
- Applied Communication (B.A.)
- Applied Graphic Design (B.A.)
- Gerontology Studies (B.S.)
- Liberal Studies (B.A.)