Mount Online

The Mount Online undergraduate programs exist to meet the flexible educational needs of non-residential learners. As such, it provides flexible undergraduate degree and graduate degree programs offering only online asynchronous, online synchronous and online blended courses (See course formats). Students may begin at all stages of education. We accept prospective first year students and transfer students into both our undergraduate and graduate programs.

These programs capitalize on a flexible learning experience and extend our University’s mission: as a Catholic university, Mount St. Mary’s graduates ethical leaders who are inspired by a passion for learning and lead lives of significance in service to God and others.

Students seeking admission to the program should visit the Division of Continuing Studies Accelerated Adult Undergraduate and Mount Online Admissions page :

Mount Online offers the following undergraduate programs:

Majors:

Minors:

Students in all programs must complete the Mount core curriculum as well as all course requirements in their major program of study and general electives. Please see individual program descriptions for further information.

Course Formats

Synchronous	A course with regularly scheduled meeting times using web-conferencing only (i.e., Zoom).
Asynchronous	A course with all content is delivered online without a specific course meeting day or time. Instead, content is completed within assigned date ranges. Any scheduled meetings are typically limited to capstone events and/or proctored exams.
Blended	A course with synchronous meetings using web-conferencing (i.e., Zoom) and asynchronous teaching in Canvas blended to equal the required credit hours. The meeting day and time will indicate the synchronous webconferencing portion of the class.