Bachelor of Science in University Studies Online

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Program Overview

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Tailor your studies to align with your personal passions and career path with our 100% online Bachelor of Science in University Studies. This degree brings you one step closer to launching, advancing or changing your career by preparing you with highly marketable skills that stand out in the labor force.

As an online student at LU, you can graduate faster by transferring previously earned credit hours – saving you time and money. Whether you are starting your degree or searching for your path to completion, you will be completely supported by our knowledgeable faculty members and dedicated student coordinators throughout your academic journey.

The Department of University Studies works with students to ensure they are given the maximum credit possible for work already completed, whether academic courses, technical credit or workplace experience.

Students may apply up to 36 hours of technical credit to a University Studies degree. Technical credit must be from a regionally accredited university and grades in any transferred technical credit courses must be a “C” or higher. As this program accepts a specific number of technical credits based on required coursework, students should discuss technical credit with an academic advisor in the Department of University Studies.

The Department of University Studies also offers credit for workplace experience through its Prior Experiential Learning course. Students who successfully demonstrate experience-based knowledge and mastery of important competencies can earn up to 24 hours of credit toward their degree. This option is not available to students who transfer technical credit, and students should discuss this course with an advisor in the Department of University Studies for more information.

With multidisciplinary studies, you can explore where your true career goals lie. Customize advanced electives across a variety of subjects such as humanities, history, arts and applied sciences. You will build a strong educational foundation with transferable skills, like critical-thinking, problem-solving and effective communication, to enter the workforce or continue to graduate school.

Work in a variety of settings:

  • Healthcare
  • Education
  • Business and finance
  • Management
  • Software

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Lamar University offers a variety of specialized bachelor’s program options. Check out our other online undergraduate programs.

Per Credit Hour $314*
Transfer Credits Up to 90 hours
Credit Hours 120**

*Price includes distance learning fee.

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Tuition

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The following is the tuition breakdown for students pursuing the Bachelor of Science in University Studies online. Our tuition is affordable and can be paid by the course.

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Program Per Credit Hour Per Course
BS in University Studies $314 $942

*University fees are included in the tuition listed. University fees are able to be covered by Financial Aid if you choose to apply and are qualified.

Tuition and fees are subject to change without notice due to action by the Board of Regents or the Texas State Legislature.

Total program cost depends upon transfer hours and program advisement relevant to program requirements. For more information, contact a Lamar University enrollment specialist.

Financial Aid

Ready to get started on your degree program online but need help finding ways to fund your education? We can help you discover student financing sources that include grants, loans and other payment options. Learn more about financial aid here.

Tuition breakdown:

Per Credit Hour $314*

Calendar

Note these important dates for our online degree

Our Bachelor of Science in University Studies online program features multiple start dates to accommodate your busy schedule. Find the start date that works best for you and apply before the application deadline associated with it.

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8 week coursesProgram Start DateApplication DeadlineDocument DeadlinePayment DueLast Class Day
Summer I5/29/255/8/255/15/255/20/257/31/25
Fall 18/21/257/31/258/7/258/12/2510/7/25
Fall 210/13/259/22/259/29/2510/7/2512/10/25
Spring I1/20/2612/30/251/6/261/13/263/13/26
Spring II3/16/262/23/263/2/263/10/265/6/26

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Apply Date 7/31/25
Class Starts 8/21/25

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Admissions

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The Bachelor of Science in University Studies online program has specific requirements that applicants must meet to enroll. Please read the admission guidelines to ensure you qualify.

Admission Requirements:

  • Online Application
  • Official Transcripts
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All applicants must complete an application packet, consisting of:

  • Complete online application and pay a one-time application fee of $25
  • Submit official transcripts from all high schools, colleges and universities you have attended
  • Eligible to re-enter all colleges and/or universities previously attended
  • Verify specific requirements associated with chosen degree program

High school graduates who have not attended college before are considered entering freshmen – even if they received college credit while in high school through dual credit, AP or IB programs. Transfer students with fewer than 18 hours of college credit also must meet admission requirements for entering freshmen.

Incoming freshmen must do the following to qualify for unconditional admission to Lamar University:

  • Receive a diploma from an accredited high school
  • Complete at least 14 high school credits in college preparatory courses: 4 credits in English, 3 credits in mathematics, 2 credits in laboratory sciences, 2.5 credits in social sciences (U.S. history, U.S. government, and world history or world geography) and 2.5 credits in college preparatory electives (preferably including 2 credits of foreign language)
  • Graduate in the top 10 percent of their high school class or achieve a minimum composite score on the SAT or ACT
  • Submit your high school transcripts via Trex, Speedy, Escript or as a PDF from your high school counselor to [email protected].

Send all required documents to:

Lamar University Online Admissions
PO Box 10017
Beaumont, TX 77710

OR

Submit electronically to [email protected]

* All applicants must submit official, sealed transcripts from each institution attended to the Admissions Office. All degrees must be from a regionally accredited institution. Send transcripts to: Lamar University, P.O. Box 10017, Beaumont, Texas 77710

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Courses

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The Lamar University Bachelor of Science in University Studies online features the same quality instruction from supportive faculty as our established on-campus program. Take courses in the focus area that meets your career goals and gain the skills employers are looking for.

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Complete six unique hours from the core curriculum courses.

Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
The Career and Communications Strategies course aims to equip students with the essential communication skills needed to navigate the professional world, focusing on techniques for effective networking, interviewing, presenting, conflict resolution, and building professional relationships, while also exploring strategies to tailor communication to different workplace situations and career goals.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Personal productivity is a course based on the FranklinCovey framework, designed to empower individuals to significantly enhance their personal and professional effectiveness by focusing on five key decision-making principles that optimize their time, attention, and energy. This course integrates theoretical foundations with practical applications to develop students' abilities to make effective decisions, manage time efficiently, and achieve sustainable productivity in both personal and professional contexts.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Theory and practice in the several types of interview current in the United States including information, employment and persuasive.
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Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Financial Literacy course equips students with essential knowledge and skills for making informed financial decisions throughout their lives. Students explore personal finance topics including budgeting, saving, investing, credit management, debt repayment, taxes, insurance, and financial planning. The course also covers organizational financial fundamentals, teaching students to interpret and analyze financial statements while understanding key business concepts such as cash flow, profitability, and growth metrics.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course explores the nature of unconscious bias and its impact on decision-making while developing creative thinking and problem-solving skills. Students learn to identify and mitigate bias in the workplace and utilize various creative thinking techniques. The course emphasizes practical applications across business, design, and technology fields, incorporating design thinking, prototyping, and innovation methodologies while promoting entrepreneurial spirit.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course focuses on developing personal credibility and building high-trust relationships within organizations through the application of Stephen M.R. Covey's "13 Behaviors of High Trust." Students learn to identify and mitigate trust-eroding behaviors while developing their unique personal brand. The course emphasizes practical applications of trust-building principles in professional settings, strategic personal marketing, and alignment of personal brand with career goals.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
The project leadership course focuses on equipping individuals who, while not formally titled as project managers, often take on project leadership responsibilities within their roles. This course teaches essential project management skills like planning, communication, stakeholder management, and risk mitigation, emphasizing the use of "soft power" and influence to guide teams towards successful project completion without relying solely on hierarchical authority. The course also aims to equip students with the necessary skills to communicate effectively in various professional and personal contexts, focusing on developing strategies to leverage communication as a tool for achieving goals, building relationships, and navigating complex situations, including active listening, persuasive techniques, non-verbal communication, and adapting to different audiences.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
The Leader Coaching course provides a framework for achieving strategic goals by teaching participants how to prioritize "wildly important" objectives, actively monitor leading indicators, utilize a compelling scoreboard to track progress, and establish a consistent cadence of accountability to ensure focused execution amidst daily distractions.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3

You will work with your advisor to choose 36 credits in 1000:4999.

You will work with your advisor to choose 33 credit hours in 3000:4999.

Communication - 6 Hours
Mathematics - 3 Hours
Life and Physical Sciences - 6 Hours
Language, Philosophy and Culture - 3 Hours
Creative Arts - 3 Hours
American History - 6 Hours
Government/Political Science - 6 Hours
Social/Behavioral Sciences - 3 Hours
Component Area Options - 6 Hours

Duration: 8 & 15 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Basic forms of expository writing. Frequent themes. Collateral reading in articles and essays of a factual and informative type.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Application of the fundamentals of speech production to the needs of the professional person. For non-communication majors only.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
The application of common algebraic functions, including polynomial, exponential, logarithmic and rational, to business, economics and the social sciences are addressed. The applications include mathematics of finance, including simple and compound interest and annuities; systems of linear equations; matrices; linear programming and probability, including simple value. Prerequisites: TSI complete or TSI exempt. Students with a TSI score of 336 or higher, or with a S in MATH 0370 may take this course with co-requisite course MATH 0224. Students who are registered for MATH 1324 and MATH 0224 are not allowed to drop these courses due to the state's TSI compliance requirements.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
An introduction to contemporary environmental issues and human interactions with ecosystems. Not to be used as a biology major course.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Survey of elementary inorganic/organic chemistry and gas laws for allied health science majors. Prerequisites: (High school chemistry or CHEM 1375 with a grade of "C" or better) and (Mathematics Readiness Score>= 700 or MATH 1314 or higher with a "C" or better).
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Elementary survey of structure, function and metabolic processes of molecules in organisms. Designed for students majoring in health sciences. Prerequisites: CHEM 1306, CHEM 1106. Offered: Summer
Duration: 5 & 15 weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Algebra-based review of chemical laws and theory for science, engineering and preprofessional majors. Prerequisites: Mathematics Readiness Score >=700 or MATH 1314 or higher with a C or better
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
A continuation of CHEM 1311. Theories of solutions, equilibrium, thermodynamics and kinetics. Prerequisites: CHEM 1311 and CHEM 1111 both with a C or better.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course is an introduction to the relationship between human activities, geologic resources and processes and environmental quality. Topics include the relationship between human populations and geologic hazards, as well as how human activities may increase the chances of geologic hazards occurring. Emphasis will be from the geologic perspective, but will include all basic sciences. Field trips are an integral part of this course. Offered: Fall, Spring
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course is intended to provide a basic understanding of many aspects of space exploration, including discovering the physical make-up of the universe and evidence surrounding its origin, learning the discoveries made in the solar system and evidence surrounding its origin. This course in addition to lecture material will include a class project to assess teamwork skills.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
A close reading of related themes, authors or periods and/or a close viewing of films with related themes or makers. The course will focus on literature, the arts, politics, philosophy or culture. It will not take the place of other 2000 level courses that require ENGL 1301 and 1302. It will not take the place of ENGL 1302. It is intended for students who do not take 6 hours of composition. Course may be repeated when content varies. Pre-requisite: English 1301.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
A historical examination of theories and principles of social and personal conduct ranging from Plato and Aristotle to Mill and Nietzsche. Applications to current issues. Prerequisite: ENGL 1301 Offered: Fall, Spring.
Duration: 8 & 15 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
An introductory course emphasizing the understanding and appreciation of visual arts (painting, sculpture, and architecture).
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
A survey of the field of film with emphasis on current trends in cinema, past and present directors, and the historical development of film. Satisfies the Fine Arts core curriculum requirement.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
The synthesis of computer games with a focus on the artistic elements of games, including graphics, animation, audio and narrative.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
A survey of the art of dance and its role in world cultures, history and current issues. This course satisfies the fine arts core for non-dance majors. Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Duration: 15 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Survey of music. Covers the major style periods from the Renaissance to the present with emphasis on the development of basic listening skills and critical thinking. Requires attendance at instructor-specified recitals or concerts.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
A survey of the development and history of Jazz as a musical form from its origins in earlier styles to the present. Covers the major styles and musicians with an emphasis on the development of basic listening skills and critical thinking. May require attendance at instructor specified recitals or concerts.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
A survey of the development and history of Rock Music from its origins in earlier styles up to the present. Covers the major styles and musicians with an emphasis on the development of basic listening skills and critical thinking. May require attendance at instructor-specified recitals or concerts. No Prerequisites.
Duration: 15 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
United States history from the revolutionary period through reconstruction.
Duration: 15 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
United States history from the post-reconstruction period to the present.
Duration: 15 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Texas history from the beginning to the present time.
Duration: 15 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
The national and Texas constitutions; federalism; political socialization and participation; public opinion and interest groups; parties, voting, and elections.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
The legislative, executive, and judicial branches and the bureaucracy; policy formulation and implementation including civil rights and civil liberties, domestic and foreign policies.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Emphasizes monetary theory; national income analysis; fluctuation and growth; public finance; international trade; and current economic problems.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Introduction to economic principles; allocation of resources; determination of output and prices; distribution; and managerial economics.
Duration: 8 & 15 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Forms of expository and analytical writing. Topics from composition suggested from wide reading in at least two of the three genres: prose fiction, poetry, and drama. Research paper required.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Introduction to the quantitative methods of analysis as applied to business problems. Topics of study include collection of data, statistical description, probability theory, probability distribution, sampling theory, estimation of parameters and testing hypothesis. Prerequisite: MATH 1325 or MATH 1324.

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