Welcome to Franciscan University Online Programming! Franciscan Online provides a unique educational experience that prepares you to: integrate faith and reason in your personal and professional life; live your vocation of service, evangelization, and leadership within your family, career, and the Church; and lead with excellence and virtue to advance to the next level in your career. In sum, Franciscan’s online programs strive to equip you to follow God’s plan for your life, whatever that may be.
Online Classes at Franciscan University
Welcome from the Dean
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Franciscan’s online programs exist to bring Franciscan to students around the world and to bring these incredible students into the Franciscan Family. As a student in our online programs, you will be immersed in Franciscan’s uniquely Catholic culture through interaction with your classmates and professors within your courses as well taking part in the online community of learners outside your courses.
You will study with the same world-class scholars and seasoned professionals who teach on campus. You will also be challenged to see the world and your studies through the good, true, and beautiful, lens of Catholic teaching. Finally, you will experience an academically excellent and passionately Catholic online education!
Taking online courses is both challenging and rewarding. Everyone at Franciscan is dedicated to helping our online students succeed so that you may reap the full rewards and benefits of being a Franciscan University student – not just academically, but personally and spiritually as well. We strive to make our courses as engaging as possible and provide the same services and support to our online students that we do for our on-ground students. We truly treasure each student God sends to us and pour our whole selves into supporting them and forming them into the woman or man God wants them to be.
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace!
Dr. Cory Maloney
Dean, School of Online Programs
Our Vision
Franciscan University’s Online Programs extend the University’s mission to serve and rebuild Christ’s Church across the United States and around the world by providing an academically excellent and passionately Catholic online education centered in the Catholic, Franciscan Tradition, which equips students to integrate faith and reason in their personal and professional lives and to live their vocations of service, evangelization, and leadership within their families, careers, and the Church.
Undergraduate Degree Programs Online
Graduate Degree Programs Online
How do Franciscan Online courses work?
Our online courses are powered by Canvas, which functions as a virtual classroom for each of our online courses and features a variety of interactive tools. You will collaborate with professors, other class members, and study partners.
Weekly course content includes recorded, professional lectures from our distinguished professors—the same ones who teach on campus here in Steubenville—as well as guest speakers. Also, live webinars, wikis, podcasts and vodcasts, video/audio emails, blogs, and other tools facilitate one-on-one interaction with professors and fellow students on the material being discussed.
Dedicated technical and academic support is always a phone call away to answer questions or assist with any issues not covered in the comprehensive Online Orientation Course designed to prepare students for this online educational experience.
Franciscan’s Online Programs are Fully Accredited
Operating with the approval of the Ohio Department of Higher Education, Franciscan online courses and programs adhere to the same rigorous academic standards as Franciscan University’s campus-based courses and programs. The University is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, one of the regional accreditors in the United States.
Costs and Aid
Costs and fees vary among our online programs, and financial aid may be available. For undergraduate online programs please visit the Costs & Fees page. For graduate online programs, please see your preferred program’s page for full details and be sure to speak with an Admissions Counselor if you have any questions.