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A worldwide university for accomplished individuals
Be recognized for who you have become and guided to fulfill your life’s mission. Finish what you started — 29% of people over 50 did not complete university. CULA® offers the opportunity to finally get home.
CULA Degree Program
Receive the certifications you have already earned through life, experience, and achievement. Our assessments identify gaps in qualification and create curriculum for you to round out and fulfill your credentials.
Welcome to CULA®
“Home Study” is a viable alternative for adults and retirees around the world. For most, remaining at home while finally earning their degrees makes the educational process fun, recreational, and affordable. Motivated students, capable of benefiting from “guided, independent study” can and do achieve outstanding recognition through CULA® qualifications.
You are invited to finally finish a degree, for which you qualify, through CULA® programs designed just for you. © 2016 EMI, Inc.
Connected to the world
It does not matter where you live in the world. CULA® programs are designed for you. Apply now detailing your qualifications and experience thus far and indicate the academic degree you would like to attain. We will then contact you to discuss a proposal for your academic work as a student to achieve the degree you seek. CULA® is a perfect option for those who “know where they’ve been, where they are now, and where they want to go next.”
Earn your degree from home
CULA® verifies your expertise and certifies as to your professionalism. Your earned degree will be an apt reward for your commitment to yourself. Find out more about the options available, consistent with your expertise and level of experience.
City University Los Angeles is the first institution of higher learning to declare its mission to recognize achievement and attained skills, along with academic qualifications, especially fulfilling the needs and aspirations of those who, for whatever reasons, dropped out of college or never attained their degrees. If this describes your life learning situation, CULA® is here to serve you. Learn more here.
Two programs
- The Retirees Program — associate, bachelor, master, law and doctoral degrees, plus certificates
- The PADD™ Program — Physician Assistant Doctoral Degree, doctorates only
Who studies with CULA®
- Retirees and lifelong learners
- College “drop-outs” finishing what they started
- Accomplished professionals seeking recognition
How your degree comes together
1. Apply with a portfolio
2. Life experience assessed
3. Complete your modules
4. Advance to candidacy
Faculty
We at CULA® understand that the quality of our services is strongly connected to the expertise of our service providers, or faculty. It is our duty and our passion to find the best available mentors worldwide for our tailored programs to match the diverse needs of retired and retiring adults. The members of our faculty are accredited by the CULA® Trustees Advisory Board, and you will find CEOs, Presidents, Consultants, Trainers and Entrepreneurs among the CULA® family of faculty mentors.
Qualified candidates at the master and doctoral levels are invited to apply for Adjunct Faculty positions. See faculty requirements.
CULA® graduates are change agents
Coretta Scott King, wife of The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was awarded CULA’s first ever Honorary Doctorate in 1976. Ethel Kennedy, widow of Robert F. Kennedy, was the second woman so honored with a Doctor of Humane Letters to help memorialize her fallen husband. The late, great President Nelson Mandela was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 1985, while he was still in his 27 years of prison confinement. Muhammad Ali was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, and none of CULA’s honorees was more “private” than Johnny Carson, king of late night television, Doctor of Television Entertainment.