Achieving Results for Our Partners

Collaborating for Significant and Sustainable Growth

Academic Partnerships helps each university partner identify best-fit opportunities that present growth potential within their market. Then we consult closely to launch and scale online programs that resonate with potential students and meet the needs of adult online learners.

By executing on this plan, we consistently demonstrate partner benefits of strong enrollment, broad recognition for quality programs, a focus on student retention and a reputation for outstanding value. We only succeed when our partners and their students succeed.

Featured Case Studies

Carleton University Case Study

As a public research university ranked #5 among Canada’s Best Comprehensive Universities by Maclean’s (2023), Carleton University is conversant with academic innovation with Carleton’s Sprott School of Business (Sprott) a leading example. The business school leverages the university’s location in Ottawa as a thriving global city and G7 capital by applying contemporaneous workforce-relevant input from business leaders to shape the curricula for its well-regarded Master of Business Administration (MBA) program.

When Sprott decided to offer the on-campus MBA program in an online format to better reach an underserved audience of nontraditional adult students, their leadership searched for an experienced partner to expedite that process. Joining with Academic Partnerships (AP) was an innovative approach as Carleton became one of the few universities in Canada to work with an outside online facilitator.

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Eastern Washington University

Eastern Washington University (EWU) was one of the first schools in the United States to announce it was moving all its classes online in response to the COVID-19 crisis. “Our partnership with AP was crucial in our ability to make this transition quickly and effectively,” says EWU interim president David May. “With AP’s help, EWU had already built a strong foundation of online expertise, instructional design, and know-how among our faculty and technology teams.”

EWU’s relationship with Academic Partnerships (AP) began two years before the pandemic. Founded in 1882 as a teacher-training academy, the regional public university, which today serves more than 12,000 students across 100 majors, approached AP in 2018 seeking support in developing and growing new online degree programs. AP was excited about the opportunity to partner with a university whose core themes are access, opportunity, and excellence and whose graduates are 44% first-generation college students.

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UNC Pembroke

Founded in 1887, The University of North Carolina at Pembroke (UNCP) is a regional four-year public university that serves as a vital employer and institution for its region. A recent academic study described the university’s economic impact on its surrounding community as “irreplaceable,” and U.S. News and World Report has ranked UNCP as the most diverse regional university in the south.

UNCP began working with Academic Partnerships (AP) in 2017 to expand and enhance its Master of Business Administration program, which at the time had a total of 100 on-campus and online students. AP helped UNCP transform its MBA offering into an accelerated, flexible one-year format and strengthen its student recruitment and support services. All online classes are taught by full-time UNCP faculty and are available on a flexible asynchronous schedule. The total cost for the full online MBA degree for a North Carolina resident is under $12,000. This quality, accessibility, and affordability has attracted busy working professionals from around the state, and today more than 1,100 students are enrolled in the program.

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