Graduate Programs

Meeting the special needs of those who desire graduate study on a part-time basis has been a distinctive service of Holy Names University since the 1940s. Many graduate classes are scheduled in the late afternoons, evenings, or on weekends. Certain programs offer classes during the summer months. Some programs–the MBA and the MSN–are in weekend study. The program in Music Education with Kodály emphasis can be a full-time program, beginning in the summer. All graduate students may attend either full-time, part-time, or on the weekends and begin in fall, spring or summer. In some programs students may concurrently take weekend and weekday courses in the same term.

Program advisors work closely with students to plan the sequence of courses for obtaining a degree, credential or certificate. Part-time students who stop classes for a semester, a trimester or longer, may find that their program of studies takes longer because of interrupting the sequence required in the accomplishment of some course prerequisites. All graduate students must complete their program of study within seven years.