Online Education

  • Non-Master’s Credentials: Graduate certificates and micro-certificates provide targeted, career-focused pathways.
  • Graduate Degrees: Fully online master’s programs aligned with market demand.

Launching a new online graduate program is a collaborative process between PACE and the academic unit and generally follow a timeline such as this:

  1. Idea & Concept Development: Faculty and unit leadership identify program concepts while PACE provides initial market scans and benchmarking.
  2. Approval & Incubator Funding: With governance approval gained, programs may access seed funding from PACE to support its successful launch (Incubator Fund).
  3. Program Design & Build: Faculty develop curriculum with support from PACE’s instructional design and online learning teams.
  4. Marketing & Recruitment Launch: PACE collaborates with the Division of Enrollment Management on bring-to-market campaigns.
  5. Program Delivery & Support: Once a program goes live, PACE’s online student services team monitors and intervenes on student engagement, as applicable, in collaboration with faculty and other departments across campus. 

PACE also works with university departments to continue to build online student support infrastructure towards parity with on-campus student service. 

Funding Model

To reduce risk and accelerate program growth, we have created an Incubator Fund model that provides upfront seed funding to academic units for market-aligned online program launches. Units benefit from early investments, instructional design, and operational support while retaining long-term revenue growth.