University College is Adelphi’s college for the working adult and offers innovative instructional programs, including non-credit courses and certificate programs; associate’s and bachelor’s degrees; and graduate programs, including graduate certificates in basic sciences for health professions and emergency management.

Mission Statement
University College is the leader in higher education for working adults on Long Island. University College strives to provide a multitude of learning opportunities for adults who wish to begin or continue their postsecondary education, begin or change careers and maintain busy family and community commitments. University College has been created and developed to meet the specialized needs of adults pursuing higher education and views its six points of distinction as a way University College uniquely serves adult students. They are:

• Quality: University College strives to be the finest adult higher education program in the region and a national leader in adult higher education programs and services. Quality is assured through regional and national program accreditation, faculty who have years of academic and professional experience, highly trained staff assigned to assist students, and student services created and maintained specifically for working adults.
  
  
• Convenient: University College strives to create educational opportunities and student services that meet the needs of busy, working adults. Convenience is assured through an extensive University College online website and electronic portal presence, courses scheduled nights, weekends, online, blended and accelerated, extended University College office hours, and streamlined and simplified student services.
  
  
• Career-Focused: University College strives to create degree and non-credit programs that assist students in achieving their career goals. This includes offering degrees that lead to careers in growing industries and fields, that are directly and indirectly linked to graduate school programs and external credentials, and that prepare students to enter or re-enter the job market.
  
  
• Technology-Infused: University College strives to prepare students fully for 21st century careers requiring significant technology skills and abilities. This includes using classrooms that have the latest in instructional technology and access to the internet, faculty with technology training and years of technology experience, live courses that offer lessons using multimedia and the latest available software and hardware, online and blended courses that use the most advanced course management systems, and student technology standards that assure students they have the technology skills required by their career fields.
  
  
• Affordable: University College strives to be an affordable higher education option that is available to students of all income levels. Affordability is assured by tuition and fees reduced from the traditional student programs, grants and scholarships available to adult students, issuing college credit for relevant and substantial work or volunteer experience, and giving students the ability to accelerate their degree programs and enter their career fields at a pace faster than traditional students.
  
  
• Personal and Supportive: University College strives to provide a personal touch for students throughout their degree and non-degree programs. This means significant pre-enrollment advising from University College staff, one consistent point of contact with a University College staff member throughout a student’s degree program, and smaller-sized classes filled with fellow adult students.

University College will always be a place that puts the unique needs of working adult students first and will ensure that students graduate with a rich academic experience and well-prepared for their chosen career.


Programs of Study

Undergraduate Programs

1. University College Core Courses
2. Associates Degrees
   • Associate of Arts (A.A.) in Liberal Arts
   • Associate of Arts (A.A.) in Liberal Arts: LPN Pre-Nursing Path
   • Associate of Science (A.S.) in Emergency Services Administration
3. Bachelor Degrees
   • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Literature
   • Childhood and Adolescent Education Concentration
   • Pre-Law Path Concentration
   • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Social Sciences
   • Psychology and Human Service Professions Concentration
   • Childhood and Adolescent Education Concentration
   • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Fine Arts
   • Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Natural Science
   • Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Criminal Justice
   • Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Business
   • Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Emergency Services Administration

Graduate Programs

1. I.D.E.A. Program (Intensive Degrees in Education for Adults)
   combined bachelor's and master's degree program

Certificate Programs

1. Certificate in Basic Sciences for Health Professions
2. Graduate Certificate in Emergency Management

Noncredit Programs and Courses

1. Online Certificate in English/Spanish Translation
2. Summer Pre-College Programs
3. Kaplan Test Preparation

University College
p - 516.877.3412
e - ucinfo@adelphi.edu

Hagedorn Hall, Room 201
Adelphi University
Garden City, NY 11530