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Study with, Duquesne University Online

Become an active part of the online program offered by Duquesne University and you will find yourself studying with people located in numerous states and countries around the world including: Iceland, India, Ireland and Iraq. After you earn your degree you will become part of an alumni network over more than 73,000 Duquesne University graduates who live worldwide.


Founded in 1878, Duquesne University has gained a reputation as being one of the top ten Catholic Universities in the United States.

Duquesne University has been recognized by the Higher Education Community Service Honor roll for its outstanding community service program. This prestigious honor roll was created by President George W. Bush and lists the top 100 colleges and universities in the United States.

The Princeton Review's "Most Connect Campuses" list has Duquesne listed in its top 25 universities and colleges in the United States.

Duquesne University has also been ranked as one of the 20 best small research institutions in a new listing that has been set up to study faculty productivity in doctoral programs across the country.

Duquesne University School of Leadership and Professional Advancement Online Programs

Duquesne University's School of Leadership and Professional Advancement (SLPA) has been awarded Distinguished Credit Program as well as noncredit program recognition. They have also won a Creative Use of Technology Award from the Association for Continuing Higher Education.

In recent studies done by Noel Levitz, an external research firm, Duquesne University SLPA students regularly ranked their level of satisfaction as being higher than the national average in all categories. Included in the studies were service levels and instructional effectiveness.

The Duquesne University School of Leadership and Professional Advancement has been offering online education programs since 1996. The Sloan Consortium Catalog of Online Educational Programs lists the SLPA course offering, giving them recognition as being high quality online degree programs.

Sloan-C which is sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation looks at the five pillars of quality in online education when rating programs for inclusion. These pillars include: access, faculty satisfaction, institutional cost effectiveness, learning effectiveness and student satisfaction.

All Duquesne University Online programs can be done on a 100% remote basis. There is never a need to go to the Duquesne campus.