Contact Person: Donald Sebera
Phone (800) 444-2910 or (740) 593-2910

Web Address: www.ohiou.edu/independent/

Brief Description of Program:

For more than 75 years, Ohio University's Independent and Distance Learning Program has been providing learning opportunities at times and places convenient to students. Our course-delivery options include print, audio- and videotape, computers, compact disks, and the Internet and World Wide Web. Students submit assignments by postal mail, fax, and e-mail.

You can choose to take one course or work toward a degree through our Degree Services program.

In every course we offer, you will find our commitment to the academic quality that characterizes Ohio University. When you enroll you will join the nearly 5,000 students each year who are taking advantage of learning that has no limit of age or time or place. We hope you find the courses and delivery methods that are just right for you.

Independent and Distance Learning offers courses by correspondence, by examination, and online, any of which can be taken while earning an Ohio University degree at a distance or for transfer to other programs. Students choose from over three hundred courses, including over a hundred term-based and self-paced Web courses.

To earn an Ohio University degree entirely at a distance, students enroll in the External Student Program. Currently offered is the Bachelor of Specialized Studies, a student-designed degree which may include courses from any available academic department in the area of concentration. Coming in 2005 is a new degree created especially for students with an associate degree, the Bachelor of Professional Studies, which will allow students with a technical degree to follow a prescribed curriculum to complete the baccalaureate program. No campus attendance is required; academic advisors who are specialists in distance learning.