UMassOnline is proud to be helping busy professionals, lifelong learners, and students worldwide continue their education, enhance their careers, and enrich their lives no matter where they’re located offering 70+ degrees and certificates online and 1400+ online courses annually. The University of Massachusetts President and Board of Trustees created UMassOnline in 2001 to meet the online education needs of people locally, nationally, and internationally by offering accredited educational programs via interactive, Internet-based learning systems.

UMassOnline IS UMASS

UMassOnline students are UMass students and receive the same benefits as their on-campus peers:

• An internationally recognized faculty, including winners of the world’s most prestigious awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, Nobel Prize, National Book Award for Poetry, and the Draper Award in Engineering.
• A fully accredited university with highly ranked schools and colleges.
• A 320,000 alumni network, including successful, highly respected industry leaders, scientists, authors, astronauts, hi-tech entrepreneurs and entertainers.
• A staff and faculty committed to meeting the needs of students, whether on campus or off.
• Rigorous academic requirements that guarantee a degree or certificate of great value.
• A leading center for public higher education in the Northeast. The University of Massachusetts Amherst has gained a reputation for excellence in a growing number of fields, for its wide and varied academic offerings, and for its expanding historic roles in education, research, and public service. The University also has campuses in Boston, Dartmouth, Lowell, and the University Medical School in Worcester.

Online, offline or blend, the choice is yours…

Recognized as one of the top university systems in the United States, the University of Massachusetts 5-campus system has been a leader in distance education for over 25 years. Now you can get the best that UMass has to offer by getting your university degree online, offline or blended.

Recently, UMassOnline added another way to learn that allows local students to get the best of both worlds. You can choose to get your degree through a campus near by and learn in a traditional classroom setting, choose to access fully online anytime or anywhere, or blend the flexibility and convenience of online with the experience of the face to face classroom.

Blended Learning

Blended learning simply defined is a combination of the physical face-to-face classroom with a portion of the course curriculum delivered online. Blended learning is the ‘perfect’ mix for those who want some face-to-face classroom experience but also want the flexibility of taking some elements online.