Degrees and Majors Offered
Through the Center for Distance Learning, Empire State College offers its associate and bachelor's degrees at a distance via the World Wide Web. All students must meet the college's general degree requirements. With the guidance of your faculty mentor, you will design a degree program that is as innovative or traditional as you need it to be, and choose courses and learning activities from the college's 11 broad areas of study:
- The Arts
- Business, Management and Economics
- Community and Human Services
- Cultural Studies
- Educational Studies
- Historical Studies
- Human Development
- Interdisciplinary Studies
- Labor Studies
- Science, Mathematics and Technology
- Social Theory, Social Structure and Change
From one of the areas of study, you will choose a concentration (similar to a major). Examples of possible degree concentrations are available; many other concentrations are possible as well. And when you successfully complete all of your studies, you will receive a fully accredited SUNY degree.

