South University

Given South University's century-old experience since its 1899 establishment, you can be sure to receive quality education that emphasizes personal attention to students. Online students have access to the same exact degree, excellence in education, educational opportunities, and student services that are available at our five campuses. Every online student will receive their degree from the Savannah, Georgia campus.

As you advance toward your professional goals, consider the important benefit of having the same quality education experience that you'd find at campus locations for South University available when enrolling as an online student.

Have you ever wondered if it was possible to fit college into your busy lifestyle?

With our online program, now it can be. South University's online classes give you the freedom you need to decide when and where to attend class.

Complete your bachelors degree while working at your pace -South University provides students with fast-paced, web-based classes that concentrate on the things you need to know - you can fully immerse yourself in your classwork, and get a taste of success every five and a half weeks.

Distance Learning at South University

South University's cutting-edge distance learning programs offer small class sizes that provide students with individualized attention, professional teaching staff that share their real-world experience, customized educational settings, and challenging course materials that will help you to fulfill your career goals.

South University courses feel just like being in the classroom. It is our stern belief that the accessibility of our staff and faculty - from professors to admissions counselors - is absolutely crucial to your academic success. Each and every student attending South University is assigned to a team of attentive support professionals to assist in guiding them from the application and enrollment process through to career services.

Launch your career - Take advantage of South University's historical academic excellence since its 1899 establishment by launching your career using our online degree and programs. The distance learning program will help you hone your skills with innovative concepts to help launch your career.

The American Bar Association (ABA) has approved the Legal Studies programs offered in the traditional on-campus classroom format at the Columbia, SC, Savannah, GA, Montgomery, AL, and West Palm Beach, FL locations. In addition, South University's Savannah, GA campus has received the approval of the American Bar Association (ABA) to provide students with twenty web-based legal specialty classes from its Bachelor of Science in Legal Studies program.

Students must also fulfill four course requirements:

• Introduction to Paralegalism
• Legal Research and Writing 1
• Legal Research and Writing 2
• and Civil Litigation on-campus in a traditional classroom environment.

Achieve success while working at your own pace:

• All Savannah Campus online students can complete all of their general education classes and twenty of their legal specialty classes online, without having to give up their full-time jobs.
• All online courses are 5 ½ weeks long.
• All Savannah Campus online students must complete a four-class requirement (11 weeks in duration) in person at our campus, in a program that has been approved by the ABA.
• It can take as little as three years to earn a bachelor's degree in Legal Studies on any campus. We accept transferable college credits if you hope to complete your degree sooner.
• You can also attend classes in this program in person at one of our campuses.

The Paralegal Studies program prepares students for rewarding careers as paralegals or legal assistants. Staying current with professional trends, the paralegal program offers students both concentrated course work and a supervised professional externship in public and private legal environments, like police departments, law firms, real estate companies, title companies, banks and trusts, and the courts.

Attorneys use paralegals diversely to be effective in family law, personal injury, criminal law and more. While they are able to perform specifically delegated substantive legal work for which a lawyer is responsible, they are not able to set fees, give legal advice, or represent clients in a court of law.

The Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice program is appropriate for graduating high school students who want to begin a career in criminal justice, adults seeking to change to a new career, or for criminal justice professionals seeking promotional positions.

The curriculum for this program offers a complete, relevant, practitioner-oriented preparation for a career in this dynamic and rapidly expanding field. Students in the program can select from one of the five concentrations: juvenile justice, corrections, law enforcement, investigating crime scenes (CSI), and Internet crime.

The classes foster a practical understanding of the criminal justice system and all of its inner workings, and expose students to the social, legal, and technological challenges that the profession presents. Among the concepts used to prepare our graduates for entry-level positions are the understanding of criminology, law enforcement, juvenile justice, corrections, the judicial process, and criminal law as they apply these to their current jobs.

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