Adult Degree Program

Your Timing is Perfect

We serve adult learners with our flexible programs with day, evening and online course options to start or complete your college degree. If you are beyond four years of high school graduation or GED completion, the Adult Degree Program is ready and waiting to help you succeed.

Claim Your Future

There’s No Reason to Wait

Coming Back is Easier Than You Think

Your Education is Our Priority

An Experience for You

Life may not always move in a straight line. We know that stepping into the classroom is a big decision. Whether you want to finish or start a college degree program, with more than 30 years of experience creating an adult-friendly educational environment that helps non-traditional students excel in the classroom. We are a military-friendly school honoring the Yellow Ribbon program for military veterans.

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Academics

Whether you are interested in earning your bachelor or associate degree or are interested in a certificate program, we have a program that fits your schedule and a major for your career ambitions.

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Student Resources

We know you are already juggling a lot in your life—work, family and now school. That is why we have resources to help you be successful. From our career development program and academic support services to personal librarian program and a commuter lounge in the newly renovated library, we have resources that support adults in the classroom and on campus.

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Wilson at a Glance

Learn the numbers that make our Adult Degree Program great.
  • 30+
    years we’ve been serving adult learners
    We have been enrolling students like you for more than 30 years, since 1982. With flexible options that include day, evening and online classes with admissions professionals who truly understand your challenges, we will make sure you get to the next level.
  • 39%
    Adult-Friendly Environment
    When you return to classroom, you won’t feel out of place. Adult students represent more than a third of Wilson’s total undergraduate student population.
  • 5
    majors you can complete exclusively through night classes
    Choose from several programs that won’t cut into your work day at all: accounting, business management, early childhood education, English and communications.

Education

Prepare for a rewarding career in education with our collaborative learning models, partnerships with local communities, and innovative educational practices. Undergraduate, graduate and certification programs also offer a focus on special education.
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Business

Gain the critical interpersonal, analytical and economic skills you’ll need to flourish in both the public and private sectors with our undergraduate and graduate business degree programs.
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Nursing

Receive your BSN or MSN, or combine either with your existing RN. With a focus on active learning, the latest innovations in nursing education and partnerships with healthcare providers, our programs give you the experience you need to become the most effective and caring nurse possible.
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Back to the Books

A quiet voice in the back of her mind kept nagging at Marybeth Richards: Wasn’t it time for her to go back to school and get that college degree? After one long discussion about finances with her husband—which ended with them asking each other, “Where do we go from here?”—she sat in her living room holding her baby daughter and watching her two older children play. “And that quiet voice suddenly got really loud.”
The program is incredibly flexible so that it can take into account family life, kids, jobs.
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News & Events

Catch up with Wilson’s latest news, upcoming events, and faculty and student accomplishments.
Feb
1
2020

Science Focus Day 2020

Explore the Sciences at Wilson College!

Wilson College invites you to learn more about our science programs on day filled with presentations, sample classes, and a campus tour! The majors represented on this day include: BIOLOGY, CHEMISTRY, BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, ENVIRONMENTAL...

(All day)
Feb
1
2020

Community Garden Workshop

The event is FREE and open to the community. Please register by January 24.

Permaculture is a design system for ecological and sustainable living, integrating plants, animals, buildings, people & community. Come learn more from Permaculture expert Lincoln Smith of Forested and...

9:00 AM
Allen Auditorium, Warfield

Wilson Co-Hosts Free Community Garden Workshop on Feb. 1

Wilson College and Healthy Franklin County are co-sponsoring a free community garden workshop to be held Saturday, Feb. 1, in Warfield Hall's Allen Auditorium. The theme of the workshop‘s theme is permaculture, a design system for ecological and sustainable living that integrates plants, animals, buildings, people and community.