Sullivan University

Sullivan University offers career-focused higher education for people with higher goals. We’ll help you choose a degree program, on campus or online. When you graduate, we’ll assist you in finding career opportunities.

Sullivan University is a private institution of higher learning dedicated to providing educational enrichment opportunities for the intellectual, social, and professional development of its students. The institution offers career-focused curricula with increasing rigor from the certificate through diploma, associate, bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degree levels. Throughout those curricula, the University seeks to promote development of critical thinking, effective verbal and written communication, computer literacy, and teamwork as well as an appreciation for life-long learning, cultural diversity and the expression of professionalism in all activities. At the graduate level, the University also seeks to promote a culture of research.

The Sullivan University faculty, staff, and administration believe that qualified individuals should have the opportunity to pursue formal academic training at the institution of their choice. The University provides a student-centered learning environment that facilitates students’ identification of their life goals and the means to achieve those goals. The University promotes a culture of teaching excellence throughout the institution which is augmented by a culture of research at the graduate level, and it also encourages faculty, students, administration and staff to participate in service activities and projects which enhance the quality of life in the local and surrounding communities. Upon completion of a program, the University provides employment assistance to graduates.

Sullivan University achieves this mission by providing:

• A stair-step curricular progression for students from certificate through diploma, to associate, to bachelor’s, to master’s, to doctoral degrees with credentials earned at each level
• Face-to-face, hybrid and online learning experiences in an environment enhanced by student services and activities outside the classroom that enable students to take advantage of their interests and abilities to develop teamwork and leadership capabilities
• Faculty members who possess educational, experiential and distance learning qualifications for the classes they teach and who emphasize the process of learning as well as the assimilation of knowledge and skills
• Equipment similar to that used in the professions for which the students are educated
• A technologically state-of-the-art university library whose books, periodicals, professional journals, electronic databases and e-journals adequately support the programs offered
• Undergraduate faculty who understand and use active, collaborative, experiential, and problem-based learning strategies while practicing in live, virtual, and blended environments; and graduate faculty who understand and use these learning strategies while also practicing in a scholarly research environment
• Professional and research oriented doctoral programs which especially express the university’s commitment to teaching excellence, scholarly research, distance learning, the application of knowledge, civic engagement and focused service to its various publics
• Graduates earn the privilege to review, audit, or retake any course they completed without additional tuition
• Career Services specialists to assist graduates with their job search at graduation and thereafter as requested