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Customized Education
Chart Your Path with an Education Customized to Your Goals

If you want a clear path to a degree, University of Minnesota College of Continuing and Professional Studies (CCAPS) can help you find your way. We’ll work with you to maximize credit for the education you already possess while helping you explore your options for customizing your degree to your personal and professional goals. Discover a brighter future when you earn a degree through our Inter-College Program, Multidisciplinary Studies, or Health and Wellbeing Sciences.

INTER-COLLEGE PROGRAM

For those who find it difficult to “limit” themselves to just one area of study, the Inter-College Program offers a degree-building way to earn this coveted undergraduate credential. In this program, you—with assistance from an experienced CCAPS advisor—will build the degree you want to earn. Explore your interests, gain an education relevant to rising and new career fields, chart your own course, this program offers a stratified way to pursue your passion while developing professional skills.

Inter-College Program Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science

Choose your credential path, either a Bachelor of Arts (BA) or a Bachelor of Science (BS). The BA requires coursework in arts, humanities, and social sciences. The BS requires coursework in hard sciences, quantitative or investigative paths, or have a pronounced applied or professional component.

For both degree credentials, you’ll split upper-division credits evenly among two-area or three-area degree options. Or pursue a thematic degree with 40 (BA) or 50 (BS) upper-division credits from three departments and two colleges.

PROGRAM SNAPSHOT

120

Credit Hours: (including 30 for admission)

  • BA or BS credential 
  • Chart your own curriculum path
  • Online, day, and evening class options 
  • Classes are a blend of online and in-person

MULTIDISCIPLINARY STUDIES

Combine coursework from several disciplines to create your own unique degree with the Multidisciplinary Studies program at CCAPS. Working with one of our advisors, you’ll create a customized plan of study that looks at the credits you’ve already earned, where you want to go, and determine the best way to get there—all with your educational and professional goals in mind. This program is ideal for working adults who want to finish earning their degrees.

Customize your program with courses from three of these disciplines:
• Applied, technical, and professional
• Arts and humanities
• Communication
• History and social sciences
• Science and health science

Multidisciplinary Studies Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science

Your program your way. Earn the degree credential you want—either a Bachelor of Arts (BA) or a Bachelor of Science (BS). To earn the BA, your program must include 12 credits of languages or cultures other than your native language or culture. To earn the BS, you program must include at least one upper-division course in quantitative or critical thinking.

PROGRAM SNAPSHOT

120

Credit Hours: (including 30 for admission)

  • BA or BS credential 
  • Design your degree with courses from three disciplines
  • Online, day, and evening class options
  • Classes are a blend of online and in-person

HEALTH AND WELLBEING SCIENCES

Build your future, and your degree program, on a solid foundation of biological, physical, and social sciences as they relate to the health and wellbeing industry. In this interdisciplinary program, you’ll work with an advisor to mix and match coursework for a degree that matches your personal and professional goals.

Health and Wellbeing Sciences, Bachelor of Applied Science

After developing a foundational understanding of integrative health, ethics, fitness, and overall wellbeing, you’ll customize your Bachelor of Applied Science in Health and Wellbeing Sciences with your choice of any number of focus areas, including addiction, business, communication, life sciences, integrative health and healing, neuroscience, and more.

PROGRAM SNAPSHOT

120

Credit Hours: (including 30 for admission)

  • Multiple focus areas to align your education to your career
  • Core coursework in anatomy, ethics, health and fitness, management, pathology, physiology, public health, statistics, and more
  • Online, day, and evening class options
  • Classes are a blend of online and in-person
  • Meet Jeff Olsen Krengel

    Meet Jeff Olsen Krengel

    I work with prospective students interested in designing their own degree program (Health & Wellbeing Sciences, Inter-College Program, and Multidisciplinary Studies). I’m available to answer your questions and help you find a program that meets your needs. In my free time, I can be found reading, running with my son, or visiting a brewery. I am an avid sports fan cheering for the Green Bay Packers, Minnesota United FC, and Liverpool FC.

Make Your Own Way with a Custom-Built Degree

From the Inter-College Program to Multidisciplinary Studies to the Health and Wellbeing Sciences degree, customize your education to your goals.

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