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Turn your job into a degree

We are creating a world where skill and effort, not money or connections, determine who gets ahead — and no one is forced to choose between a job and a degree. 

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Meet the Apprenticeship Degree

A degree earned on the job without student debt.


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WHO WE SERVE

Helping working adults reach their full potential

Reach is the nonprofit university dedicated to serving working adults who are ready to earn a debt-free degree, and employers hoping to recruit and train their own pipeline of local, representative talent.
 

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When your workplace becomes your college campus

There are so many benefits to a person engaging in an apprenticeship-style profession because the experience, in this case, is really going to be your best teacher.
Latrice Bennet Program Director & School Partner
I get to use my work experience and put it towards classroom requirements. I have the flexibility that allows me to do things, and I don’t have to be completely tied down by school. It’s also been easy for me to transition into the program, which surprised me because technology is not always a strength of mine. 
Melissa Sardo Reach Candidate
At $75 a month, you get a 4-year degree? I’m like, let me check on this. . . and it works! Job-embedded learning, job-embedded training, is the best thing ever. You’re going to use my job and it’s hours towards my student teaching.
Towanna Edwards Reach Candidate
I thought, ‘this is too good to be true’. We can employ someone here, they can get paid, they can work as an instructional aide, even support the classroom teacher, and they're earning their degree during the same time. It can really change the dynamics of education here. 
Jason Goodwin Principal & School Partner
Learning about something and physically doing it are two completely different things and Reach allows you to do both simultaneously. 
Jovan Lowe Reach Graduate
ABOUT REACH UNIVERSITY

Nobody should be forced to choose between a job and a degree

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Apprenticeship Degree

The Apprenticeship Degree

Affordable. Based in the workplace. Credit for the work you already do. Your daily work is paired with relevant classroom instruction, increasing your impact every day.

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Our Reach

We offer rigorous, debt-free degree pathways that are taught by faculty working in the field. 

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School Partnerships

Our School Partnerships

We’ll walk through walls to support the success of our candidates, colleagues, and ecosystem collaborators.

We’re changing higher education and changing lives. Here are our stories.

CNN: Creative solutions to on-going teacher shortages
Student Stories

CNN: Creative solutions to on-going teacher shortages

Gabe Cohen, of CNN, shares how Reach University's on-the-job teacher training program is supporting school employees of all roles in becoming ...
USA Today: To solve teacher shortages, schools turn to custodians, bus drivers and aides
Student Stories

USA Today: To solve teacher shortages, schools turn to custodians, bus drivers and aides

MORGAN CITY, La. – "Jenna Gros jangles as she walks the halls of Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana. The dozens of keys she ...
ABC News: Why there's a special education and STEM teacher shortage and what can be done
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ABC News: Why there's a special education and STEM teacher shortage and what can be done

Experts say obstacles include recruitment, funding and institutional support. "A nationwide survey conducted by ABC News this school year found that ...
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Join our team and Reach new heights!

At Reach University we believe that your job should lead to your degree, not the other way around. The Apprenticeship Degree makes this possible. Join us in transforming the landscape of education and work across America.

Earn your job-embedded degree with no student debt