Elevating Higher Education Online
Our mission is simple: helping universities grow and students succeed by increasing access to top-quality, affordable and workforce relevant education delivered online. We are in the business of changing lives through education.

“Academic Partnerships supports degree programs that primarily serve working adults, such as nurses and teachers. These busy professionals are often juggling families, jobs and other responsibilities, but still want to advance their careers in a flexible and affordable way. We are grateful to work with respected universities to increase access to their high-quality programs, with a strong commitment to student success.”

“In talking to hundreds of universities and students over the years, I know the life-changing benefits of education. I’ve also seen the challenges many students face to access affordable education in a flexible way that allows them to achieve their goals. It’s an honor to lead a mission-driven company, like Academic Partnerships, that supports the needs of our university partners with a single-minded focus on advancing university and student success.”
2020/2021 Impact Report
AP’s Impact Report provides a transparent look at how we deliver on our mission to expand access to top-quality, affordable and workforce relevant education online.
View ReportAcademic Partnerships – Our Mission & Impact
Learn more about AP overall, our mission and how we are specifically designed to support our university partners and their students, primarily regional universities and working adults, with a total weighted average tuition of only $16,000.
University Services
We prepare stakeholders for success by assisting in aligning operational systems, helping plan and design engaging online programs and supporting faculty with training and professional development opportunities.
Integrated Marketing Services
We promote brand and program offerings through proprietary data-driven processes that flow across channels of performance-based marketing and field-based marketers to attract qualified students.
Student Support Services
We produce successful students and graduates by supporting them with high-touch communication plans carried out by dedicated specialists from application through matriculation to graduation.
University Services
We prepare stakeholders for success by assisting in aligning operational systems, helping plan and design engaging online programs and supporting faculty with training and professional development opportunities.
Integrated Marketing Services
We promote brand and program offerings through proprietary data-driven processes that flow across channels of performance-based marketing and field-based marketers to attract qualified students.
Student Support Services
We produce successful students and graduates by supporting them with high-touch communication plans carried out by dedicated specialists from application through matriculation to graduation.
At Academic Partnerships, we offer true expertise and verifiable results. Through our AP HigherEdge® services, we promise to invest resources up front, enhance the university brand while upholding academic rigor, guide faculty in leveraging technologies to advance their instruction, refine performance metrics based on data science insights and fully support each student’s journey toward successful completion.
“With Academic Partnerships’ support, Arkansas State University has created high-quality online education programs that are affordable and convenient for working teachers in Arkansas and beyond.”
Articulating a Bold Future for Higher Education

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Reflections on This New School Year
Dear University Partners: When Fred Rogers was a young boy and he was concerned about alarming events in the world, his mother would tell him, “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.” Mister Rogers said he came to see that “the world is full of doctors and nurses, police and firemen, volunteers, neighbors and friends who are ready to jump in to help when things go wrong.” As the new school year gets underway in…
Commitment to Student Success
Hear directly from graduates of our university partners’ AP-supported programs and see how these working adults advanced their careers through affordable, high-quality online education.
Purpose-led &
community-engaged
We are capable, driven and diverse—and dedicated to joining our strengths as one to achieve extraordinary results for our university partners and their students. Academic Partnerships’ commitment to changing lives extends beyond the workplace to our contributions as volunteers helping create genuine social impact in our communities. We attract motivated professionals who thrive in a collegial atmosphere working in collaborative, cross-functional teams that nurture excellence.
Elevate your institution’s online successes with Academic Partnerships
Contact us to learn how our AP HigherEdge® services can make all the difference.