Ashford University

Knowledge is Everywhere, for Everyone.

Ashford University is a vibrant community that offers effective learning online. Whether you pursue your education online or in the traditional college experience, you'll find both infused with the same history of academic excellence.

The Ashford Mission

The mission of Ashford University is to provide accessible, affordable, innovative, high-quality learning opportunities and degree programs that meet the diverse needs of individuals pursuing integrity in their lives, professions, and communities.

In addition to this mission, the faculty and staff have identified several purposes that guide and direct the University's efforts.

Purposes:

• To foster a vigorous, diverse learning environment shaped by contemporary awareness, intellectual inquiry, and a shared search for truth in which students gain knowledge and build skills and values useful in their personal and career development.
• To cultivate student-centered learning at all levels, supported by technological resources and led by qualified faculty and staff who are guided by contemporary scholarship and professional practice. 
• To promote the development of foundational values relevant to leadership in the 21st century: self-worth, creativity, interdependence, service, integrity, and effectiveness. 
• To foster intellectual and personal growth, sensitivity to diversity and human dignity, effective and responsible leadership, environmental responsibility, and lifelong learning. 
• To offer online and campus-based degree programs with foundational perspective, breadth and professional relevance for undergraduate and graduate students.
• To place priority upon institutional effectiveness, excellent value, affordability, responsive student services, accountable administrative processes, continuous assessment of student learning, and curriculum improvement to assure quality in a rapidly changing culture and demonstrate innovative leadership in higher education. 
• To maintain operational, financial, and strategic strength to ensure the future of Ashford University.

Ashford University is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission and a member of the North Central Association. Accreditation by the Commission provides assurance to prospective students that Ashford University has been found to meet the Commission's stated requirements and criteria. Ashford University has been placed on notice by the Higher Learning Commission. Notice is a Commission sanction indicating that an institution is pursuing a course of action that, if continued, could lead it to be out of compliance with one or more Criteria for Accreditation. An institution on Notice remains accredited. At the end of the notice period, the Board of Trustees may remove the sanction, place the institution on Probation if the identified concerns have not been addressed, or take other action.