Overview

Designed for professionals with diverse educational backgrounds
and experience, the programmes are structured to meet the needs of
qualified people seeking to complete their formal credentials.

By combining the English and American graduate education models, practicing professionals, who have accumulated substantial post-baccalaureate coursework now have the opportunity to expeditiously earn their master’s or doctoral degree.

Many students have completed their required coursework, but never have completed their dissertation or thesis.  Others have accumulated ample credits, but have not taken the required courses to earn their degree.  Still others have taken the required courses, but have found these courses were not accepted for transfer.

IUGS will accept all relevant post-baccalaureate courses for transfer earned at accredited institutions, including approved continuing education coursework prior to or after admission.  

The University was founded in 1979, is accredited, and has earned academic and professional recognition and approval from public and private organizations.  Every professor is a practicing professional who has earned at least one doctorate.  Therefore, academic and practical knowledge is integrated into the IUGS learning experience.

Since most candidates are mid-life professionals, they are acknowledged as peers and are respected for their career, personal and scholastic accomplishments.  The traditional professor-student relationship is replaced with academic and professional fellowship.  A bonding among the candidates, as well as between the candidates and the professors, is developed and continues beyond graduation.

“I believe that academic territorial barriers that prohibit the transfer of courses from one institution to another inhibits the credentialing of many qualified students.  To serve these mature professionally accomplished individuals who have accumulated substantial post-baccalaureate coursework, International University for Graduate Studies has created an academic model which allows the earning of graduate degrees at a lower sacrifice of time and money as compared to the alternatives.”

Benjamin B. Weisman, Ph.D.

Chancellor