With dozens of accredited degrees offered 100% online and at a distance, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock offers you the opportunity to balance family, work, and school responsibilities on a flexible schedule.
UA Little Rock offers accelerated online courses for both undergraduate and graduate degree programs. These courses are scheduled for a shorter time than full-term courses. Accelerated online programs:
- Allow you to focus more on each individual course
- Permit taking fewer courses at one time
- Maintains normal breaks during fall, winter, and spring
- Includes a week break between courses
For more information about course scheduling for a specific program, please contact the program advisor.
Undergraduate, Accelerated Online Programs
The Bachelor of Arts in applied communication equips students with communication skills that may be applied in their personal lives as well as across a number of professions, including business, education, government, and industry.
The 120-hour program teaches students how to use a positive communication framework to ethically lead by analyzing messages, developing messages, anticipating communication barriers, accomplishing communicative goals, embracing difference, and influencing discourse.
Graduate, Graduate Education, Education, Accelerated Online Programs
The Master of Education in reading is a 30 hour accelerated online degree program that helps novice and veteran teachers become specialized educators. One of the two degree plans can lead to certification in the state of Arkansas. The Reading Generalist degree plan does not lead to certification.
Graduate, Criminal Justice, Accelerated Online Programs
The Master of Science in Criminal Justice is an accelerated online degree program that is designed to help people currently working in the field develop the essential knowledge and skills needed to become an effective practitioner or supervisor in the criminal justice system. All required courses for the M.S. in criminal justice are offered in an accelerated format. Students can expect to complete the 36-hour program in 3 years (7 semesters).
Undergraduate, Health and Social Science, Accelerated Online Programs
The Bachelor of Science in nursing (RN to BSN) online completion program offers registered nurse graduates of either an associate or a diploma program the opportunity to pursue a BSN while continuing employment. The accelerated program can be completed in 12 or 18 months.
Undergraduate, Criminal Justice, Accelerated Online Programs
The Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice online degree program is designed for students pursuing careers in law enforcement, corrections, and juvenile and adult courts. The criminal justice major will receive instruction in administration, criminal behavior, and a variety of correctional and criminal issues.
