If you are interested in the College for Working Adults, you must attend an information session. For a session schedule and more information, please contact:

Dana Barrett Director, Academic Affairs Support Rudisill Center & Community Campuses (260) 480-2026

Ivy Tech — Northeast's College for Working Adults (CWA) offers a great way for students to earn their Associate of Applied Science degree in two years or less, while generally taking no more than two classes at a time. In other words, students attend classes on what feels like a part-time basis, but still finish within approximately two years, the same time it takes for a regularly-scheduled full-time college student. Students who want or need a convenient, predictable schedule will greatly benefit from earning their degrees through the College for Working Adults.

As a CWA student, you will know what classes are required to graduate and when those classes will be offered because you will register for every class required to earn your degree at one time. There is no guess work about selecting the right course or trying to figure out schedules from semester to semester. Ivy Tech's College for Working Adults will offer you a guaranteed schedule of classes for the entire degree program over a two year period and will even ship the books for your courses to your home automatically if you are financial aid-eligible.

The CWA at Ivy Tech - Northeast offers "compressed" AAS degrees in the following programs:

Early Childhood Education
Criminal Justice (on-line only)
Medical Assisting
Business Administration

Students will take courses over five (5) eight-week terms per calendar year. Classes will be 8 weeks long and you will take four (4) classes per semester in the Fall and Spring and two (2) classes in the summer.

Classes will by "hybrid" in nature, which means you'll attend traditional lecture classes and have an Internet component as well. This blend of learning environments means you MUST have dependable access to a computer and high speed Internet for assignments, class projects, and/or research.

To qualify for the College for Working Adults you must be "program-ready" as indicated by pre-enrollment assessment scores, ACT or SAT scores, or transferable college credit. You may be admitted to the CWA on a provisional basis if you are within one semester of completing your remedial courses.

Because the CWA is designed to serve your needs and help you overcome barriers to completing your degree, you will be able to "cycle" back into your degree program if a life event should happen and you need to stop going to classes. You may have to take a traditional 16 week class, but within one semester you could be back on track earning your "compressed" CWA Associate degree.