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Take Control of Your Future

Earn a career-focused education through UW Flexible Option on your schedule, on your terms – 100% online.

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Save Time and Money

Designed for working adults with some college credit or on-the-job experience, UW Flexible Option breaks free from rigid semester schedules. Start any month, move at your own pace, and test whenever you’re ready. You can also use your current knowledge and prior experience to progress toward your degree—which may help save you time and money.

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Gain Useful Skills

While traditional programs require students to sit through classes to accumulate credit-hours, UW Flexible Option’s competency-based format is all about what you know and are able to do. You’ll make progress by completing assessments or projects that prove you’ve mastered competencies—the skills and knowledge UW faculty and industry leaders have identified as essential to your chosen degree or certificate.

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The Value You Expect

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UW Flexible Option offers a variety of degree and certificate programs, with more on the way. Check them out now!

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What Flex Students Are Saying

  • The UW Flexible Option won’t be like any college experience you’ve had before, and that’s a good thing!    —Victoria Svejcar, Associate of Arts & Science, '19

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  • My goal was to finish a BSN degree in one year, and I did it! Thanks to the self-paced Flexible Option format, I was able to complete 36 credits while working full time as an ER nurse.    —Lori Kenyon, BS-Nursing, '15

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  • It [the UW Flexible Option] works great for me because it’s about using my knowledge, building on it, and taking assessments when I’m ready.    —Craig Kilgo, BS-Information Science & Technology, '15

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  • The [RN to BSN] program gave me a basis for what elements really make an impact on patient outcomes, because I was directly seeing them in my work.    —Tiffany Breezee, BS in Nursing, '18

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  • I can’t say enough about the flexibility. It’s essential. I’m running in every direction. I appreciate the ability to rely 100% on myself and not on another person’s timeline.    —Tyler Coady, BS-Information Science & Technology, '17

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