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At Prescott College, you can design and earn the Bachelor's degree you've always wanted in your home community without sacrificing your personal and professional life. If you have completed approximately one to two years of college and are seeking a Bachelor's degree, Prescott College offers an ideal degree completion program that integrates your needs, interests, and career goals.
Our unique community-based education program provides face-to-face contact and support throughout the program. Students work in collaboration with faculty to individualize and self-direct their studies. Students can design a degree areas of study such as Teacher Education, Human Services, Environmental Studies, Sustainable Community Development, and Management, as well as other liberal arts areas. No other college offers such a diverse, multidisciplinary, liberal arts curriculum as Prescott College.
Why do students choose the Prescott College Adult Degree Program to complete their undergraduate degrees?
- Students maintain their personal and professional lives while earning a degree.
- The program is self-designed, student-centered, and flexible.
- The program features community-based education (students study with mentors in their home communities).
- Our educational philosophy: individualized study for individual students.
- Prescott College offers credit for life experience through a portfolio process.
- The program requires very limited residency.
- The College offers on-going support from faculty and other students in the program.
Students can study and maintain their lives
The Prescott College Adult Degree Program (ADP) is set up so students can live a normal life and earn their degree at the same time. This means that students can continue working full-time jobs and earn full-time wages while studying. The majority of our students continue to hold jobs and have family responsibilities while they pursue their education.
Self-designed, student-centered, flexible program
At Prescott College, students can earn the degree they have always wanted. Students work closely with a core faculty member to design the overall structure of their programs. They also work one-on-one with mentors in or near their home communities to determine the content and structure of their individual courses. Each program incorporates an individually designed internship or experiential component that demonstrates competence in the student's field.
Community-based education
Prescott College features community-based education so our students can live and work in their home communities while earning their degrees. Community-based education means that students use local experts in their home communities as educational resources. Mentors provide students with a valuable network of professionals in their field of study, and these connections often lead to internships, recommendations, and jobs.
Mentors can be found in local business and other professional organizations, even local educational institutions such as elementary and high schools and universities and community colleges. Upon enrollment, our core faculty members assist students with the process of finding mentors in their community.
The Prescott College educational philosophy
Prescott College believe that each student's situation is unique and that true learning occurs when people feel free to explore and expand their interests within a guided yet open structure. Students are actively involved in, and responsible for, their own educational path. They design their programs of study to best fulfill their needs, interests, and career goals. Prescott College realize that students have different backgrounds and experiences. The College strives to provide each student an individualized program of study to best fit his or her needs.
Credit for life experience
At Prescott College, knowledge acquired outside the classroom can be translated into college credit. A prior learning advisor assists students with this process after enrollment. Prescott College recognizes that college-level learning occurs in many different ways outside of the classroom, including work experience, independent reading, and study.
Limited residency
Although students complete most of their courses in their home communities, they are required to attend Orientation weekend in Prescott, Arizona and a one-day Saturday Orientation for students advised through the Tucson Center the weekend prior [at the Tucson Center].
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On-going support
Our students tend to develop strong relationships with faculty and mentors in their communities throughout their program. Our residency, although limited, also provides for interaction with fellow students.
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