If you’re interested in our UMass Global MyPath business and IT degrees, you can control everything — when you watch lectures, when you complete coursework, when you study, what your deadlines are, everything. For the right student, the flexibility of our technologically advanced MyPath programs is ultimately freeing. Plus, you can earn your degree more quickly and more affordably.
Different Format, Same Great Student Support
MyPath is a self-paced coursework format that offers students unprecedented flexibility, but that doesn’t mean you’re out there all alone — just as with our traditional, instructor-led online courses, MyPath students have access to the same experienced, dedicated student support team. Our enrollment coaches, academic advisors, and one-stop specialists work with you every step of your journey at UMass Global. We take great pride in our level of student support, and we encourage you to reach out to us whenever you need to.
Accredited Quality
WASC Senior College and University Commission
University of Massachusetts Global is accredited by the WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC)
Competency-Based Education Network
UMass Global is a member of C-BEN. C-BEN recognizes that today, competency-based education is still an emerging field with a small number of people and institutions understanding enough to describe it or implement it. C-BEN’s efforts focus on three main priorities: growing demand, building capacity, and removing barriers.
Program Benefits that Benefit You.
Customizable Degrees
Be workforce ready with a BBA, BSIT, or MAOL degree. Choose a niche program to bolster your career, from supply-chain to data science to leadership.
Support When You Need It
Our support coaches and staff will track your progress and provide help, info and resources when you need it.
Self-Paced Learning
UMass Global MyPath degrees are on-demand programs that allow you to set your pace. Take your time or binge classes—it’s all up to you.
Programs Offered
Business
Business Admin (General Business) *self-paced, BBA
Become proficient in business in this self-paced MyPath bachelor’s degree program. There aren’t any set deadlines or assignments. Moving at your own pace, you’ll show understanding and mastery of each business “competency” and then move on to the next. Choose from six business concentrations for focused expertise.
Jul 1, 2025
Business Admin (General Business) *self-paced, BBA
Become proficient in business in this self-paced MyPath bachelor’s degree program. There aren’t any set deadlines or assignments. Moving at your own pace, you’ll show understanding and mastery of each business “competency” and then move on to the next. Choose from six business concentrations for focused expertise.
Bachelor's
Online (Self-Paced)
Competency Based
120
Credits
$3300/Credit
Next Start Date
Continuous Starts
Data Analytics & GIS
Business Admin (GIS & Data Analytics) *self-paced, BBA
Earn your degree online at your own pace with UMass Global MyPath. Gain skills in data management, spatial visualization, and programming — designed with Esri to prepare you for in-demand data analytics careers.
Jul 1, 2025
Business Admin (GIS & Data Analytics) *self-paced, BBA
Earn your degree online at your own pace with UMass Global MyPath. Gain skills in data management, spatial visualization, and programming — designed with Esri to prepare you for in-demand data analytics careers.
Bachelor's
Online (Self-Paced)
Competency Based
120
Credits
$3300/Credit
Next Start Date
Continuous Starts
Information Systems
Business Admin (Information Systems Mgmt) *self-paced, BBA
Completely self-paced, this UMass Global MyPath degree program is ideal for those looking to find opportunities in information technology without the constraints of a set class schedule. The online curriculum focuses on the principles of programming and computer systems, project management, data communications, network implementation, systems quality assurance, and security.
Jul 1, 2025
Business Admin (Information Systems Mgmt) *self-paced, BBA
Completely self-paced, this UMass Global MyPath degree program is ideal for those looking to find opportunities in information technology without the constraints of a set class schedule. The online curriculum focuses on the principles of programming and computer systems, project management, data communications, network implementation, systems quality assurance, and security.
Bachelor's
Online (Self-Paced)
Competency Based
120
Credits
$3300/Credit
Next Start Date
Continuous Starts
Leadership
Business Admin (Management & Org Lead) *self-paced, BBA
This self-paced, competency-based degree program prepares students to develop their own leadership skills, philosophies, and ethics. Beyond a solid business foundation, graduates will demonstrate expertise in human resources, organizational structure, social responsibility, and project management.
Jul 1, 2025
Business Admin (Management & Org Lead) *self-paced, BBA
This self-paced, competency-based degree program prepares students to develop their own leadership skills, philosophies, and ethics. Beyond a solid business foundation, graduates will demonstrate expertise in human resources, organizational structure, social responsibility, and project management.
Bachelor's
Online (Self-Paced)
Competency Based
120
Credits
$3300/Credit
Next Start Date
Continuous Starts
With MyPath, It's Up to You
UMass Global’s MyPath is competency-based education (CBE). MyPath courses are completely self-paced. You can work through your coursework on your schedule, without set deadlines. When you show “competency,” you pass that section and move on to the next. Beyond the lack of a set schedule for lectures and coursework submissions, MyPath also rewards you for areas where you already have knowledge, whether from prior courses, work experience, training, or earned certificates. You can move through those sections more quickly, speeding your degree completion.
Some Great MyPath Benefits
- Work through competencies based on knowledge, not time spent in class.
- You control your schedule completely and are rewarded for discipline and independence.
- Learn through simulations, game-based learning, adaptive learning, data analytics, and social learning.
- Progress quickly through areas you know, spending more time on concepts you need to learn.
- Single, set tuition fee for 24 weeks. Complete as many competencies as you can in that timeframe.
- Nine popular business and IT degrees are available in MyPath format.
- Digital textbooks and materials are all included.
- Proven online expertise — UMass Global has been delivering fully online coursework since 2008.
- Sophisticated tracking and faculty dashboards help support your progress. Unprecedented Technology
