AU Graduate Management

In all three programs, students earn three semester credits for each course completed successfully, including the capstone project. 33 semester credits are required for graduation.
All three programs are offered in an asynchronous, online format, on a split semester calendar. Students take one course at a time for a period of seven weeks, completing two courses within a 15-week semester. With three semesters per year, students can complete their program in 22 months, balancing life and work along with graduate study. For purposes of financial aid, maintaining this schedule affords the student full-time status.

Residency Requirements: There are no on-campus or on-site residency requirements for the Antioch’s graduate management degrees. Students complete their study through 100% online active engagement with their faculty and course colleagues. The program is a 33 semester credit program.

Admission Requirements

Antioch University particularly seeks qualified candidates who will contribute to building a student population diverse in gender, ethnicity, age, class, physical abilities, learning styles, sexual orientation, professional backgrounds, religious backgrounds, and community experiences.

Application Requirements

• Online Application (No Application fee)
• Bachelor’s degree from a regionally-accredited college or university. Applicants who have not finished their degree must do so before the first day of their desired start term.
• Current resume
• Additional requirement for international students:
  • Reading & Writing in English Proficiency Assessment (if applicable) or TOEFL score of 550 “paper-based”, 214 “computer-based”, and 79 “internet-based or higher.

Antioch does not require scores from the GMAT or the GRE.

Prior Experiential Learning

Prior experiential learning is gained from workplace training, participation in professional development opportunities, or an individual’s own self-guided experience, study, and reflection.  By themselves, these experiences do not constitute graduate-level college learning. However, the Graduate Management Studies (GMS) program provides graduate students with a process and structure to demonstrate that the experiences, the learning that they drew out from those experiences, and their ability to apply that learning to other experiences are equivalent to the learning outcomes identified in a specific course.

GMS employs a “course match” approach to the assessment of prior experiential learning using a prior learning portfolio. Students provide both a narrative description of what they have learned and specific evidence to support their narrative

Students who believe that their previous work, professional, community experiences, or individualized study may be applicable to their graduate degree should meet with their advisor. Upon referral from their advisor, students meet with the GMS Prior Learning Coordinator to discuss the students’ history and review any possible avenues for petitioning prior learning credit and other options for obtaining transfer credit.  A maximum of 9-semester credits, including both transfer and experiential learning, may
be applied to the GMS degree programs. Please refer to the GMS Handbook on Prior Learning Assessment for more information.

Technology Requirements

Students in this program participate in online learning activities organized within small- and large-group learning communities. Antioch University Online is a 100% online learning environment, and therefore, in addition to having the traditional learning skills, students are expected to have basic technological skills, compatible computer hardware, operating system, and internet connectivity upon entrance into the program.

Current Tuition and Fees

University Tuition and Fees