Welcome Prospective Off-Campus Student and/or Visitors

Since the 1950’s Appalachian has been providing educational programs to North Carolina residents at sites away from main campus. The programs were primarily at the graduate level until 1999, when the State of North Carolina began funding distance education. Today, Appalachian delivers courses to over 50 off-campus undergraduate and graduate cohorts at various locations in western North Carolina.

The term “cohort” is used to describe the concept of providing a schedule of courses to an identified group of students who begin and end their program of study together. Individuals must enter the cohort at the time it is initiated and continue through each term in order to receive all courses necessary to complete the program. Cohort schedules are generally structured for two courses each term (so that a cohort member is at least a half-time student). Please investigate Frequently-Asked Questions for more information about how Appalachian’s off-campus programs operate.