Climb to the Peak of your Profession!

Earn your Bachelor’s or Master’s in as little as 15 months!*

Colorado Tech Online offers innovative online degree programs designed to help career-focused professionals achieve their personal, professional and academic goals. We offer real-world degree programs and concentrations in many of today's in-demand professional fields. Best of all, our technology-current Virtual Campus puts you in touch with your studies any time, anywhere as you gain real-world knowledge and skills and build real-world credentials in your chosen field of study.

Degree programs at Colorado Tech Online include résumé-enhancing Colorado Tech Online Academic Certificates** that students earn incrementally as they progress through their chosen degree programs.  Not only do these professional certificates provide students with a sense of accomplishment as they learn, they also add meaningful credentials that can distinguish the student to employers in today's fiercely competitive job market.

*The 15-month Bachelor's degree is a 2+2 program and assumes that all Associate-level requirements have been met through an Associate degree or the equivalent. Colorado Tech Online students with no previous college experience can complete this degree in about 2 ½ years.

 **Colorado Tech Online Academic Certificates included with all degrees with the exception of Associate of Science in Criminal Justice.

History of the University

Since 1965, more than 38,000 students have enrolled at Colorado Technical University to begin the rewarding climb towards personal, academic and professional career advancement by acquiring real-world knowledge and industry-current skills in their chosen career fields.

Colorado Technical University is a private, for-profit institution of higher learning, granting Associate's, Bachelor's, Master's and Doctorate degrees as well as Colorado Tech Online Academic Certificates. The university was founded in 1965 in Colorado Springs, where the main campus continues to reside today.

Over the past 40 years, Colorado Technical University has evolved from a technical training school to a university with graduate-level programs. The introduction in 1995 of doctorate programs; the establishment of campuses in Denver and Pueblo, Colorado; Sioux Falls, South Dakota; and North Kansas City, Missouri; and the introduction of the online campus, Colorado Tech Online, have established Colorado Tech Online as a mature institution in higher education.

Colorado Tech Online Mission

The mission of Colorado Technical University, an institution of higher learning, is to provide career-oriented education by teaching applied, real-world, state-of-the-practice programs in selected areas, serving the needs of students for employment and career advancement and the needs of industry for highly qualified professionals at the associate's, bachelor's, master's and doctorate levels.

Colorado Tech Online Purposes

To achieve its mission, Colorado Technical University will:

• Maintain its focus on learning and its commitment to continuous improvement of student learning and teaching effectiveness through systematic assessment and innovation in curriculum, delivery and service.
• Use the Colorado Tech Online Professional Learning Model™ to foster ready-to-achieve learning experiences that result in demonstrated competencies. Students are provided hands-on, industry-related, problem-solving experiences that model the professional environment and encourage achievements that lead to student and employer success.
• Maintain an applied research and problem-solving focus in the Colorado Tech Online Professional Learning Model™ to promote an education al background at all levels that promotes students to adapt to dynamic environments, become lifelong learners as well as lifelong contributors to themselves, their families, their profession, and our society.
• Ensure high-tech is integrated with high-touch customer service; provide students with a sensitive and motivating environment of supportive services in career planning, academic advising, and financial and career services to enhance students' probability of success.
• Maintain current and relevant programs through active participation with the business community. This interaction, conducted through our advisory boards and faculty selection, enables Colorado Technical University to identify and implement timely curriculum and equipment changes in selected programs.
• Provide an environment that is conducive to professional growth, encouraging the faculty and administrative team to engage in scholarly and professional activities that support the university's mission and the needs of its students, industry and the community.
• Select faculty with demonstrated industry experience, advanced degrees and teaching qualifications to deliver state-of-the-practice education. Provide ongoing professional development, review and certification, especially in fostering student success through teaching and support.
  

Colorado Technical University is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission and a member of the North Central Association. (For more information, visit the NCA Higher Learning Commission web site at www.ncahlc.org.)