- Affordable tuition, minimizing reimbursement costs
- Work/school scheduling flexibility
- Reduced employee turnover
- Return on employee investment
- Degrees relevant to your business
- Increased talent pool
Our goal is to ensure students receive specific knowledge in their chosen field and the career competencies that help them advance, and your business succeed. These skills include critical-thinking, group-work, and communications, among many others. As we geared up to launch the University of Arkansas System eVersity, we listened to employers’ needs and responded with the degree plans and training necessary to ensure a healthy, vibrant future for the employee and your business.
In today's highly competitive workplace, employers increasingly view a college degree as a minimum job qualification. But career advancement now takes more than a diploma and GPA. We intentionally designed eVersity to provide students with career competencies that employers have told us are necessary to be successful. For every course, we identify which career competencies are emphasized and place this information on transcripts. When students graduate, their transcripts not only show the degree earned and grade point average, but also show employers that our graduates have the skills to make immediate contributions to their employer.
Keeping an eye on the job market to benefit both employers and their employees is a top priority at eVersity. If you are an employer and have specific needs for training or education, we’d love to hear from you.
Degrees from the University of Arkansas System eVersity have been built with close ties to many of today’s most in-demand industries, including business, criminal justice, healthcare management and information technology. Our areas of study define a clear path forward for students and open up more doors after degree completion.
With 356,000 Arkansans who have some college and no degree, chances are some of these former students are working within your company. Research shows that an overwhelming majority of employers find it more productive to educate, train and develop from within their workplace for leadership roles. This is where eVersity can help.
You might be thinking that in addition to a busy workload, your employees also have families and busy lives that might make the additional responsibility of going to school difficult. They’re not alone. In fact, as much as 75 percent of today’s college students have attributes that put them into the category of nontraditional. Whether they have dependents, are employed full time or started college at one time and did not earn a degree, the majority of today’s students demand a higher education experience that is tailored to their busy lives.
Our approach to student success begins with recognizing how hectic life can be, and then tailoring a student experience around that. We take time at the beginning of the education process to understand what students want to accomplish - how they learn, the unique pressures they face and the individualized support they need. We work with students to develop an academic plan that includes the courses they need to finish a degree and a financial plan that includes available financial and a budget to pay for their entire degree. Throughout their time at eVersity, we support and mentor students as they work toward earning a degree, with each completed course adding value to your business.
Forget whatever opinions you might have already formed about online learning. At the University of Arkansas System eVersity, we pride ourselves on being different from other universities – from the application process through graduation. Building a new university from the ground up has allowed us to put in place innovative best practices and eliminate traditional barriers that frequently prevent students from earning their degrees. The result is a university that delivers high-quality, affordable, and workforce-relevant degrees where student success is our highest priority.