Duquesne University
The Duquesne University is a private catholic University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Since its existence, the University has been expanded to over 10,000 graduate and the undergraduate students inside a 49 acre hilltop campus in the Bluff neighbourhood of Pittsburgh.
The university hosts international students from more than eighty different countries, though most students are from Pennsylvania or the surrounding region.
According to U.S News and World report’s annual college rankings place, Duquesne is in the top- tier among the national universities. Besides this, the MBA program of the Duquesne is ranked 8th in the globe by the Aspen Institute.
The University can count more than 79000 living alumni including General Michael V. Hayden (Director, CIA), the current bishop of Pittsburgh and two cardinals.
Apart from this, the university is well known for its sports achievements as well. The Duquesne football has won 11 conference titles (9 in a row and 11 of the past 13) and the Men’s basketball team of Duquesne has also appeared twice in the national championship games in 1950’s and has won the NIT championship in the year 1955.
Online degree programs at the Duquesne University
The online degree programs offered at the Duquesne University is meant for the people located in any state or country around the globe, be it Ireland, India or Iraq. By being associated with the online program of the University, you can join around 70,000 active Duquesne University alumni globally.
Online education in the school of leadership and professional advancement
The school of Leadership and professional and professional advancement (SLPA) was honoured by the distinguished credit program, the Non credit program awards as well as a creative use of technology award from the Association for continuing higher education.
Besides this, in a recent adult student priorities survey, an outside research firm, the students of SLPA ranked their satisfaction higher than the national average in various categories like service excellence and instructional effectiveness.
The school of Leadership and Professional Advancement has offered online educational opportunities since 1996 and the programs offered by the SLPA are listed in the Sloan Consortium Catalog of Online educational programs.
This recognises the high quality online degree programs.
The Sloan- C that is sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation focuses on the five pillars of quality involving access, student satisfaction, faculty satisfaction, learning effectiveness as well as institutional cost effectiveness.
Affordable tuition fees
The University is also well known for its affordable tuition rates. Pursuing an online degree is far more inexpensive than that of pursuing a regular is. Besides this, a student can also avoid the commuting charges, administrative fees as well as other additional fees like hostel room, board etc.
Accreditation
The Duquesne University is regionally accredited by the Middle states Association of Colleges and Schools.