Graduate Studies Locations
Rapid City Graduate Studies
Higher education with a business focus has always been the cornerstone of NAU since the school was founded in 1941, in Rapid City, South Dakota. The individual, personal interaction with faculty and students is what makes our graduate programs so unique. Although online degrees are becoming popular in this technological era, many people still prefer to attend face-to-face classes in a traditional setting. The on-campus classes are conveniently scheduled during evening hours to avoid interruptions of your work schedule. As a Rapid City graduate student, you can take classes on-campus, online, or a combination of both delivery formats.
Online Graduate Studies
Typical online programs are easier to fit into your busy schedule, but they may feel impersonal as you never speak to faculty and other students. National American University offers an online graduate program unlike any you've seen before. The personal interaction with faculty and other students is what makes our graduate program so unique. You'll "attend class" weekly, online, at your own convenience for threaded discussions with your classmates, assignments, and review. Once a week, you'll have live synchronous sessions where you and your classmates can interact with your professor and each other in synchronous discussion (real time, live audio) over the Internet as your instructor discusses the week's material.
Blended Model (campus and online) Graduate Studies
The blended model of learning offers you the face-to-face support that campuses offer, while still providing the convenience of taking classes online. This gives you the flexibility to schedule completion of your degree program to best fit your busy lifestyle since you’ll have access to learning 24 hours a day from anywhere the Internet can be accessed.
Campuses that offer the blended model graduate studies are: