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Architecture

Do you want to build on your construction knowledge or master an environmentally friendly approach to design and construction? We have programs in construction business and sustainable architecture to prepare you to meet the growing demands of modern design and construction.

Construction Business

This online program will prepare you to advance your career in the planning, design, and construction industry.

Construction Business

Sustainable Architecture

The OU Online MS in Sustainable Architecture (MSSA) program emphasizes the new methods and analytical tools architects use to make better design decisions that meet the growing demand for modern expertise in design and construction.

Sustainable Architecture

Arts and Sciences

Are you interested in advocating for diversity, equity, and justice, improving the lives of those in your community, or learning to apply data to impact crucial decisions? Whether it's social work, criminal justice, organizational leadership, or mental health counseling, we have a wide range of arts and sciences programs that will prepare you for your next career stage.

Human Relations: Diversity, Equity, and Strategic Impact

In this Human Relations concentration, you will gain skills that are essential to promote structural change. This emphasis is aimed at professionals in the field who seek the skills needed to advocate for diversity, equity, and justice in social policy and programming.

Human Relations

Social Work

These accredited online programs prepare you for a career as an advanced integrative practitioner, improving the lives of children, families, adults, and communities while promoting social, economic, and environmental justice.

Social Work 60- Credit Hour Program

Social Work Advanced Standing Program

Criminal Justice

This online program will help you develop the critical skills necessary to work in today’s advanced field of criminal justice.

Criminal Justice

Organizational Leadership

This online program increases your overall leadership ability. You will expand your self-awareness, learn how to improve the performance of individuals, teams, and organizations, and gain knowledge about how to develop these vital leadership skills in others.

Organizational Leadership

Museum Studies

This online program offers a comprehensive museum education, with innovative ideas for museum operation. You can advance your career in the museum industry by learning and working at the same time.

Museum Studies

Applied Statistics

This online program prepares you to take advantage of a fast-growing field where you can apply data to impact critical decisions and solutions in a data-driven economy.

Applied Statistics

Clinical Mental Health Counseling

Developed by the Department of Human Relations, this 60-credit hour program can be completed in as few as 30 months. 

Clinical Mental Health Counseling

Library Information Studies

The ability to generate, access, and use information has become the key factor in personal, social, and economic growth. The expanding global information society is encouraging the free flow of information; and the impact of rapidly changing information and communications technologies is reshaping our personal, educational, and social activities, our organizational and political practices, and our local, national, and international institutions.

Library Information Studies

Atmospheric and Geographic

Geospatial technologies are a driving force for decision-making across the globe. Learn to leverage new technologies and deepen your understanding of the world in our geospatial technologies program.

Geospatial Technologies

This program fosters the insights, technical skills, and advanced training necessary to become a leader in a variety of career fields, including agriculture, public zoning, ecology, and financial services.

Geospatial Technologies

Business

Whether you’re preparing for your CPA exam, looking to lead in the aerospace and defense field, or preparing for job advancement in the finance or supply chain management industries, our online business degrees offered through OU’s Price College of Business will prepare you for future success.

Accounting

The online Master of Accountancy prepares you for success on the CPA exam and beyond.

Accounting

Aerospace & Defense

The Executive MBA in Aerospace and Defense program is specifically designed to develop the managerial and leadership skills of the A&D workforce.

Aerospace & Defense

Business Administration (MBA)

Advance your career without interrupting it with the online MBA. This program will prepare you for leadership roles in this vital and constantly evolving field.

Business Administration

Business Analytics

This online program teaches the technical and analytical skills, as well as business process knowledge, needed to drive organizational improvements and change.

Business Analytics

Energy (EMBA)

Students in the Executive MBA in Energy program have the opportunity to specialize in Hydrocarbons or Renewables. The program prepares graduates for leadership roles in these vital and constantly evolving fields. 

Energy

Finance

This online program will strengthen your skills in the areas of financial modeling, advanced corporate finance, corporate restructuring, venture capital and private equity, alternative investments, equity fund management, international finance, and risk management.

Finance

Supply Chain Management

The online master’s degree in Supply Chain Management will prepare you to advance in a rapidly growing field across multiple industries.  

Supply Chain Management

Earth and Energy

Offered through OU’s Mewbourne School of Petroleum and Geological Engineering, our online natural gas engineering and management program will help you develop the technical and business skills necessary to excel in this growing industry.

Natural Gas Engineering & Management

This online program will help you develop both the technical and business skills necessary to excel in a growing market.

Natural Gas Engineering & Management

Education

Get the credentials you need to work in special education or join the next generation of school leaders with our online graduate degrees in special education and education administration curriculum and supervision.

Special Education

This program blends theory, research, and applied practice to enhance your special education knowledge and skills.

Special Education

Education Administration Curriculum & Supervision

Aspiring education leaders will learn instructional leadership, data-driven decision-making, strategic thinking, and organizational capacity needed to be an effective leader.

Education Administration Curriculum & Supervision

Engineering

From Data Science and Analytics to Sustainability, we offer a number of online engineering degrees led by world-class faculty from OU’s Gallogly College of Engineering. Progress your career with one of these in-demand programs.

Civil Engineering

Go beyond the theoretical with specialties in structural, geotechnical, and transportation engineering to make a lasting impact on your career.

Civil Engineering

Computer Science

This program will help generate and disseminate durable knowledge within and around the rapidly evolving discipline of computer science by focusing on theoretical and applied topics.

Computer Science

Hydrology and Water Security

Take tracks in Water Management, Water Quality, and Water Quantity to learn the knowledge and expertise needed to lead new innovations in emerging water-based industries.

Hydrology and Water Security

Industrial & Systems Engineering

Learn to improve systems productivity through optimization and integration to meet the needs of a complex, rapidly changing world.

Industrial & Systems Engineering

Sustainability: Energy & Materials Management

Progress your career by developing strong capabilities in identifying and implementing engineering solutions to achieve sustainable practices for our society.

Sustainability: Energy & Materials Management

Data Science & Analytics

With the rise of Big Data, data scientists and analysts are needed more than ever. The University of Oklahoma Data Science and Analytics Institute's online Master of Science in Data Science and Analytics will help you become a data-driven leader and decision-maker in this growing career field. Our program will help you develop advanced skills in areas like data visualization and data mining.

Data Science & Analytics

Engineering Leadership and Management

Led by world-class OU faculty from the Gallogly College of Engineering, the program shapes the engineering leaders of tomorrow. You’ll learn to efficiently solve complex real-world problems using the core principles of engineering leadership and management. Empowered with essential tools and knowledge, you’ll drive impactful change in the engineering landscape and beyond.

Engineering Leadership and Management

Fine Arts

Learn concepts that will help you lead in the field of arts and culture. Choose from degrees in Art and Technology or Arts Management.

Art & Technology

The Art & Technology program bridges the world of art, design and technology, positioning you to push the boundaries of digital creation in the 21st century.

Art & Technology

Arts Management

The online Arts Management degree will prepare you for career advancement and leadership in arts and culture.

Arts Management

Health Sciences

Healthcare is one of the fastest-growing career sectors. Gain a competitive edge with an online degree or certificate in Population Health, Nursing, Nursing Administration, or Nutrition.

Population Health

The online Population Health Certificate in Public Health gives you a competitive edge in the workplace by equipping you with the skills needed to overcome today's public health challenges.

Population Health

Nursing

Nurses are needed now more than ever to lead hospital and health care organization executive teams. The Fran and Earl Ziegler College of Nursing at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center now offers multiple pathways to being a nursing leader in your desired career path.

Online Ph.D. in Nursing

Online Doctor of Nursing Practice

Nursing Administration

Nurses are needed now more than ever to lead hospital and health care organization executive teams. The Fran and Earl Ziegler College of Nursing at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center now offers online M.S.N in Nursing Administration. With our M.S.N. in Nursing Administration, you gain an invaluable education from our nationally recognized institution that has inspired future nurses since 1911.

Nursing Administration

Nutrition

As chronic illnesses related to our diet rise, nutrition professionals are needed to help shape how society views nutrition—the online Master of Arts in Nutritional Sciences from the O.U. College of Allied Health will deepen students' nutritional knowledge with advanced education, training, and research. The program allows currently registered dietitians to remain competitive with graduate-level nutritional sciences expertise.

Nutrition

Public Health

As the scope and severity of public health challenges continue to rise, there is a growing need for quality public health professionals. The Hudson College of Public Health now offers an online Population and Community Health MPH. Master the knowledge and skills others lack and gain a competitive edge in the growing public healthcare field.

Public Health

International Studies

Deepen your understanding of global issues and enhance your ability to navigate a dynamic global environment with our online degree in Global Affairs.

Global Affairs

The online Master of Arts in Global Affairs enables you to pursue studies with a focus on the political, economic, and social interactions that have an impact on global turbulence.

Global Affairs

Journalism

Do you want to create coordinated, proactive messaging for modern media channels or earn certification from industry leaders in digital marketing? Our online Strategic Communications and Digital Strategy program will get you there.

Strategic Communication

This online program prepares you to create coordinated, proactive messaging campaigns for modern media channels.

Strategic Communication

Law

Our online law degrees are designed for non-lawyers working in a variety of industries, including energy, healthcare, and international business. Learn to deal with contracts and negotiations in your industry.

Energy & Natural Resources Law (MLS & LLM)

Designed for those in the energy industry who negotiate oil and gas contracts, deal with mineral rights or real estate transactions, or work closely with energy attorneys.

Energy & Natural Resources Law MLS

Energy & Natural Resources Law LLM

Healthcare Law (MLS & LLM)

This program offers a strong foundation in healthcare law for those dealing with the complexities of regulatory, compliance, contractual, and legal issues.

Healthcare Law MLS

Healthcare Law LLM

Indigenous Peoples Law (MLS & LLM)

This degree offers a strong foundation in Native American Law for non-lawyers who deal with contracts & negotiations of Native American policy, regulation, or business practice.

Indigenous Peoples Law MLS

Indigenous Peoples Law LLM

International Business Law (MLS & LLM)

This program provides non-lawyers an opportunity to learn about laws, regulations, and processes that impact global commerce. 

International Business Law MLS

International Business Law LLM