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Complete your degree and change your perspective.

100%

Online

This program can be completed entirely online.

Flexible

Interactions

Some courses offer an optional blended mode, where you can meet with professors and peers face-to-face or online.

Set-Price

Books

Delivered: All required course materials before classes start. No sticker shock, either. Slingshot Bookstores and North Greenville University offer you the Textbook Butler service for a flat $27 per credit hour.

Build into Your Best Life

A degree can help your career. It also helps your mind. And at North Greenville, it opens up perspectives on living that can turn your everyday into your epic.

And, like all epics, it starts with the classics: philosophy, fine arts appreciation, and American History. Critical thinking, clear communication, complex problem-solving from a Christian perspective. That’s the 100% online General Studies degree from North Greenville.

North Greenville tuition costs $440/credit hour. Most courses are 3 credits each, so they will cost $1,330 each, plus fees. We will walk with you through the process of applying for need-based aid.

Financial Aid

Expect to spend 3 to 9 hours per week on class sessions, reading, and assignments for each class you take.

Online Success Resources

The B.G.S. in General Studies requires 120 credit hours, or the equivalent of 4 years full-time study. Shorten that time with:

Prior college credit
Credit for military training
Credit for prior experience
Testing out of certain requirements

How to Apply

Hands-On Experiences

Practical Application

Online courses focus on practical application of the material learned. Many of your fellow students are working adults and course activities give you an opportunity to apply what you’re learning to real life situations.

Senior Research Project

Students will research a real-world problem associated with their minor area of interest in the Senior Capstone course. In researching the problem, students will learn about problem solving and offer a possible solution to the real-world problem. This allows you to have a hands-on opportunity to walk through researching and writing about a topic in your field of interest.

Senior Portfolio Project

Students will design a portfolio that reflects their experiences, skills and personalities in the Senior Capstone course. You will have the opportunity to discover and reflect on your purpose, core values, and plans for the future. You will create SMART goals to help you launch your future after graduation.

Interdisciplinary Beside Experienced & Faithful Faculty

Gregory Bruce, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor, English | Honors Professor

Patricia Jeannette Mercier, D.Min.
Assistant Professor, General Studies

Study Everything in General Studies

Elevate Your Perspective

You’ll also take Chapel every semester, and Cultural Events for the first four semesters. You earn credit through attendance, and each course counts as half a credit. This is the NGU difference, how you find your peak performance and elevate your perspective, intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually.

Stories that Started Here

Andrew Ratchford ’11

Currently, I am an asset manager for a $400+ million real estate portfolio

Rut Soto Rivera ’08

Celebrated in Greenville Business Magazine’s “2020 Best & Brightest 35 and Under.”

Jason Young DMin ’00 & ’20

The degree was affordable and delivered in a format that worked well for me.

More Successes

North Greenville University(NGU) admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in the administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.