Polaris is a fully online, regionally accredited university for adults who refuse to choose between a paycheck and a diploma. Real professors who grade your work, transcripts that transfer, degrees that licensing boards accept — on a schedule that bends around the job, the kids, and the 3am feed.
Where our graduates clock in — and move up
We publish the only numbers that matter: who finishes, and what happens after.
We tore out the parts of higher education that punish busy adults — the rigid semesters, the silent lecture halls, the fees that show up after you enroll — and kept the parts that change a paycheck.
Take one or two courses at a time instead of juggling five. New terms begin every two months, so you start when you're ready and step back when life demands it — without losing your place in line.
Every course is led by a credentialed professor who grades your work, answers your email, and signs the recommendation letter your next job asks for. Office hours run evenings and weekends, by video.
The same coach stays with you from application to graduation — mapping your degree plan, flagging deadlines before they bite, and picking up the phone the week everything goes sideways.
Transfer up to 90 prior credits, then earn more from work experience, military training, and professional certifications. Plenty of students arrive halfway to a degree they didn't know they'd started.
Lectures, readings, discussion boards, and proctored exams all live in one app that works offline. Download a week of coursework before a flight, a deployment, or a stretch of road with no signal.
No campus visit, no entrance exam, no months of limbo. Four steps stand between the tab you're reading and your first assignment — and a person walks you through every one.
One short form, no application fee, no SAT, no admissions essay. You'll hear back within two business days, often the same afternoon.
Upload old transcripts and any training records. We run a free, no-commitment credit evaluation so you see exactly where you'll start before you owe a dollar.
Your success coach maps every term to graduation, lines up aid and employer reimbursement, and shows you the real finish date in writing.
Pick your courses, get the app, meet your professor. A new term opens every two months, so you're rarely waiting more than a few weeks to begin.
Choose from more than sixty associate, bachelor's, and master's programs — each one mapped to the licenses, certifications, and roles employers are hiring for right now.
Accounting, management, supply chain, and an MBA you can finish in eighteen months without leaving the job that's paying for it.
CCNE-aligned tracks for working nurses, with clinical placements arranged near your home — not three hours across the state.
Cybersecurity, software development, and data analytics, rebuilt each year around the certifications hiring managers screen for.
Teacher licensure and instructional-design pathways approved across multiple state boards, with student teaching placed in your district.
Criminal justice, public administration, and human services for the dispatchers, case workers, and officers who keep towns running.
Counseling foundations, organizational psychology, and a research-ready master's for the people aiming at the licensure track.
“I finished my RN-to-BSN in twenty months working nights in the ICU. My professor knew my name and my floor and worked around my rotations. I made charge nurse the month I graduated.”
“I had eighty transfer credits sitting useless for a decade. Polaris counted almost all of them, plus my Army logistics training. Eleven months later I had the bachelor's my promotion required.”
“As a single parent I needed a school that wouldn't punish me for one bad month. My coach helped me drop to a single course, then build back up. I walked at graduation with both my kids in the seats.”
A flat per-credit rate with no surprise fees, locked for the length of your program. Federal aid, scholarships, and employer reimbursement all accepted.
Undergraduate degrees and certificates.
Graduate degrees for working professionals.
For companies upskilling their workforce.
Yes. Polaris is regionally accredited — which means your credits transfer, your degree is recognized by employers and licensing boards, and you can apply for federal financial aid. Several schools also carry programmatic accreditation in nursing, business, and education.
It depends on your transfer credits and pace. With a full transfer block, many students finish a bachelor's in under two years and a master's in roughly eighteen months. Run your transcript through our free credit evaluation and we'll show you the real finish date before you apply.
Tuition is a flat per-credit rate, locked for your whole program, with no technology, library, or graduation fees tacked on later. Most students combine federal aid, scholarships, and employer reimbursement, and a financial-aid advisor builds the plan with you before term one.
No. Coursework is asynchronous, so you study when your week allows — the early shift, a lunch break, after the kids are down. Deadlines land weekly, and the live office hours that exist run evenings and weekends, never business-hours-only.
Life happens, and the calendar is built for it. You can pause between eight-week terms and return at the next start with your progress intact. Your success coach plans both the break and the comeback so nothing quietly expires while you're gone.
Apply free in about twenty minutes. Get your transfer credits evaluated and a real graduation date in writing before you commit to a single class.