Stonecliffe College
Stonecliffe College Online is built around the innovative traditions that founded Colorado Technical University and is designed to offer a learning environment customized specifically for the associate-degree learner.
Stonecliffe College Online is an academic division of Colorado Technical University. Colorado Technical University is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission and a member of the North Central Association. (For more information, visit the NCA Higher Learning Commission website.)
Our PACE™ Learning Model
At Stonecliffe College Online, an academic division of Colorado Technical University, our Practical Approach to College Education emphasizes convenience and anytime access to accommodate today's demanding lifestyles and complicated schedules. The slower, more manageable pace of the university's quality Associate’s degree programs is designed to ensure you of a quality learning experience that accommodates your current lifestyle.
A Choice of Career or Academic Paths
Many young students enter college knowing exactly what careers they want to pursue. But many others view college as a nurturing environment that will help them discover, choose and shape their professional futures. Stonecliffe College Online is designed to provide you with options after you graduate.
Armed with your Associate’s degree, you will have acquired real-world knowledge and skills to help you pursue a position in your chosen field. Or, you may determine that advancing your education makes the most sense as you begin to build a career. If so, your Associate’s degree is structured to transition seamlessly into one of many career-focused Bachelor's degrees offered at Colorado Technical University.
Embedded Professional Certificates
Every Associate’s degree program offered through Stonecliffe College Online features built-in Professional Certificates. These résumé-enhancing credentials empower you to acquire knowledge and practical, real-world skills as you progress through your chosen degree program.
iMERSION™ Multimedia Courses
Many incoming students find Stonecliffe College Online to be an ideal setting for advancing their knowledge and helping them to prepare for their professional futures. On our exciting Virtual Campus, you'll only take one course at a time, enabling you to immerse yourself in your studies, gain confidence and knowledge as you learn and discover personal, professional and academic pathways to pursue as you progress through your chosen degree program.
You'll experience real-time interaction with your instructors and fellow students via email, chat sessions and discussion boards. You'll study on your own time, anytime, via rich multimedia courses you can pause, rewind and fast-forward. And you'll complete meaningful group projects designed to enable you to develop team-oriented, goal-based skills that can help pay dividends in your professional future.
An Outstanding Faculty
The instructors at Stonecliffe College Online are academically credentialed and experienced in the industries they teach. They offer real-life discussion topics and scenarios and provide students with a real-world approach to what they can expect in their chosen fields of interest.
An Exciting Virtual Campus Environment
Amazing multimedia technologies enable us to replicate a true academic environment for Stonecliffe College Online. From the convenience of any Internet-connected computer, you can go to class, interact with instructors and fellow classmates, tap into the resources of an online academic library, and access all your administrative records.
Career-Focused, Industry-Current Degree Programs
Course content at Stonecliffe College Online is frequently updated to provide current information as reflected by the world around us, enabling us to provide our students with a meaningful education that can be immediately applied to the pursuit of a career or professional position that interests them.
Program content is also compiled in such a way as to prepare students with relevant, industry-current knowledge in a specified field of interest.
With a Stonecliffe College Online Associate's degree, students will be in a position to either pursue a career opportunity or advance their education to the next level.
Flexible Online Learning
Stonecliffe College Online is built upon the foundation that a quality education should be available and accessible to anyone who wishes to pursue it. In the real-world, that means classes must fit neatly and conveniently into complicated personal and professional schedules. Courses must be meaningful, applicable and move at a pace that can realistically be accommodated into today's busy lifestyles. And classrooms must be as near as any Internet-connected computer.
Comprehensive Student Services
A dedicated staff of professional educators, administrators and support staff make Stonecliffe College Online a wonderful place to begin your academic pursuits.
Whether you choose to pursue a career opportunity after you graduate or advance your education beyond the Associate-degree level, our Department of Career Services is available for help and guidance.
24/7 Technical Support
From the time you set up your PC to access your classes through the day you earn your Associate's degree, our 24/7 toll-free Technical Support desk is available to provide assistance and to help keep you up and running.
School of Business: Concentration in Accounting
An increase in the number of businesses, changing financial laws and regulations, and increased scrutiny of company finances will spur the job growth of accountants and auditors. Increasingly, accountants also are assuming the role of a personal financial advisor.
Entry-level accountants are key players in the financial information arena of all organizations. They provide much of the information utilized by for-profit and not-for-profit organizations in the decision-making needed to help the organization attain its goals.
Beyond the fundamental tasks of analyzing and verifying financial documents in order to provide information to clients, many accountants now are required to possess a wide range of knowledge and skills.
What can you do with this degree?
The Associate of Science in Business Administration degree program features a concentration in Accounting. This industry-current, career-focused degree program gives you enough time to pace yourself while deciding whether to:
Pursue Career Opportunities. The demand for business professionals with industry-current education and skills is on the rise. Successful completion of this degree program can help qualify you to pursue such career opportunities as:
- Entry-Level Accountant
- Payroll Administrator
- Commercial Loan Clerk
Continue Your Education. Students at Stonecliffe College Online may decide to take their education beyond the Associate's degree level.
Because Stonecliffe College Online is an academic division of Colorado Technical University, we can provide you with a smooth transition into your choice of career-focused Bachelor's degrees offered at any of this institution of higher learning's numerous campus locations. You may even elect to continue your education at Colorado Tech Online, the Virtual Campus of Colorado Technical University.
School of Business: Concentration in Management
What's happening in the field of Management?
Today's fast-paced business world demands strong leadership and management skills together with technical competence, communication skills and the ability to contribute to bottom-line profitability.
Professional education in business administration serves to develop your capabilities so that you may assume positions of leadership and responsibility at all levels of management in our society.
Business managers formulate the policies and direct the operations of corporations, nonprofit institutions and government agencies.
What can you do with this degree?
The Associate of Science in Business Administration degree program features a concentration in Management. This industry-current, career-focused degree program gives you enough time to pace yourself while deciding whether to:
- Account Executive
- Credit Manager
- Employment Counselor
- Office Manager
Continue Your Education. Students at Stonecliffe College Online may decide to take their education beyond the Associate's degree level.
Because Stonecliffe College Online is an academic division of Colorado Technical University, we can provide you with a smooth transition into your choice of career-focused Bachelor's degrees offered at any of this institution of higher learning's numerous campus locations. You may even elect to continue your education at Colorado Tech Online, the Virtual Campus of Colorado Technical University.
Associate of Science in Criminal Justice: Concentration in Homeland Security
What's happening in the field of Criminal Justice?
The fast-paced expansion of all areas of the criminal justice system is creating a demand for skilled workers as never before in local, state and federal systems. Today's criminal justice system workforce must be knowledgeable and skilled in every component of the system to address the public's demand for protection and services.
Educated and skilled individuals are needed, from the traditional roles of law enforcement, security and corrections, to work with victim advocacy juveniles and social services.
What can you do with this degree?
The Associate of Science in Criminal Justice degree program features a concentration in Homeland Security. This industry-current, career-focused degree program gives you enough time to pace yourself while deciding whether to:
Pursue Career Opportunities. Homeland Security is a rapidly expanding sector of the Criminal Justice field. Successful completion of this degree program can help qualify you to pursue such career opportunities as:
- Customs Investigator
- Import Specialist
- Border Patrol Agent
- and many others
Continue Your Education. Students at Stonecliffe College Online may decide to take their education beyond the Associate's degree level.
Because Stonecliffe College Online is an academic division of Colorado Technical University, we can provide you with a smooth transition into your choice of career-focused Bachelor's degrees offered at any of this institution of higher learning's numerous campus locations. You may even elect to continue your education at Colorado Tech Online, the Virtual Campus of Colorado Technical University.
What's happening in the field of Criminal Justice?
The fast-paced expansion of all areas of the criminal justice system is creating a demand for skilled workers as never before in local, state and federal systems.
Today's criminal justice system workforce must be knowledgeable and skilled in every component of the system to address the public's demand for protection and services.
Educated and skilled individuals are needed, from the traditional roles of law enforcement, security and corrections, to work with victim advocacy juveniles and social services.
What can you do with this degree?
The Associate of Science in Criminal Justice degree program features a concentration in Law Enforcement. This industry-current, career-focused degree program gives you enough time to pace yourself while deciding whether to:
Pursue Career Opportunities. There is an increasing demand for Law Enforcement professionals with industry-current education and skills. Successful completion of this degree program can help qualify you to pursue such career opportunities as:
- Asset Protection Specialist
- Private Investigator/Detective
- State Trooper
- and many others
Continue Your Education. Students at Stonecliffe College Online may decide to take their education beyond the Associate's degree level.
Because Stonecliffe College Online is an academic division of Colorado Technical University, we can provide you with a smooth transition into your choice of career-focused Bachelor's degrees offered at any of this institution of higher learning's numerous campus locations. You may even elect to continue your education at Colorado Tech Online, the Virtual Campus of Colorado Technical University.
ASBA-Accounting
Professional Certificates
The Associate of Science in Business Administration (ASBA) with a concentration in Accounting includes two professional certificates:
Accounting Fundamentals
If you are looking for fundamental skills in accounting to prepare you for success in the workplace, this certificate is for you. Topics covered include the accounting equation and various types and uses of financial statements. The knowledge in accounting you gain through this certificate can be applied in a variety of organizations.
Business Concepts
If you want to understand the foundational concepts of business, this certificate is right for you. This certificate provides common knowledge related to business, management, communication, and accounting.
ASBA-Management
Professional Certificates
The Associate of Science in Business Administration (ASBA) with a concentration in Management includes two professional certificates:
Business Concepts
If you want to understand the foundational concepts of business, this certificate is right for you. This certificate provides common knowledge related to business, management, communication, and accounting.
Foundations of Management
Would you like to learn the basic concepts of management and explore the manager’s role in organizations? This certificate prepares you for entry-level supervisory positions and can help you advance your career into management. You can learn about the fundamentals of management, legal issues facing businesses, human resource management concepts, and basics of e-business.
ASCJ-Homeland Security
Professional Certificates
The Associate of Science in Criminal Justice (ASCJ) with a concentration in Homeland Security includes one professional certificate:
Homeland Security
Homeland security plays an important role in the protection of individuals, businesses, and government. Topics covered will increase your understanding terrorism and homeland security professionals’ roles in preventing it. This certificate aims to develop your skills in risk management, emergency planning, and security management.
ASCJ-Law Enforcement
Professional Certificates
The Associate of Science in Criminal Justice (ASCJ) with a concentration in Law Enforcement includes one professional certificate:
Law Enforcement
This certificate provides the skills to begin your law enforcement career. You will learn fundamentals of law enforcement policies, procedure, and administration; techniques for report writing; how police, community, and media interact; and crime prevention strategies.
Stone Cliffe's Online Degrees
School of Business
Associate of Science in Business Administration (ASBA): Concentration in Accounting
Associate of Science in Business Administration (ASBA): Concentration in Management
School of Criminal Justice
Associate of Science in Criminal Justice (ASCJ): Concentration in Homeland Security
Associate of Science in Criminal Justice (ASCJ): Concentration in Law Enforcement
Professional Certificates
ASBA-Accounting
ASBA-Management
ASCJ-Homeland Security
ASCJ-Law Enforcement
