SVU Online
The Southern Virginia University experience, wherever you are.
SVU Online gives you a way to experience a Southern Virginia University education that's built around great teaching, personal relationships, and a Christ-centered approach to learning.
And because your courses are online and asynchronous, you can make school work with everything else going on in your life.
How SVU Online works
Online, but never anonymous.
Online learning should still feel personal.
Every SVU Online course is built around meaningful interaction between professors and students. You'll learn from SVU faculty, receive personal feedback, and connect with classmates through video discussions and presentations.
Watch how it works
Lessons, presentations, and feedback are all recorded and submitted, so everyone can take part on their own schedule.
Read the video transcript
- How SVU Online works: online, but never anonymous.
- The professor creates videos to teach and demonstrate the subject matter.
- You watch it on your own schedule.
- You record your own video presentation and submit it.
- Your professor watches when it suits them.
- Your professor records personalized video feedback.
- You watch feedback made just for you.
- Teaching assistants record personalized video posts, too.
- They keep in touch with you throughout the course.
- You record a video post for your classmates.
- They watch and respond on their own time.
- Your classmate records a reply.
- You get to know each other through video.
- SVU Online, Southern Virginia University.
Learn from Real SVU Professors
Your SVU professor teaches through recorded, structured video lessons designed specifically for your course. They are purposeful instruction in your professor's own voice, not self-paced slides or automated modules.
Get Personal Video Feedback
Your professor responds to important work with personalized, learning-centered feedback in video format. Teaching assistants also stay connected with you throughout the course by providing personalized video posts for additional support.
Connect with Classmates
You'll see and hear from the people you're learning with. Video presentations, discussions, and responses let you exchange ideas and get to know your classmates.
Learn According to Your Schedule
There are no required meeting times. Lessons, presentations, discussions, and feedback are all recorded and shared online, giving you the flexibility to fit school around work, family, and other responsibilities.
Programs
Explore our online programs
SVU Online offers bachelor's and master's degrees, all taught by SVU faculty and built around the same commitment to personal, high-quality education that defines the Southern Virginia experience.
Bachelor's degrees
All Bachelor's Degrees→Bachelor of Arts
Digital Content Creation
120 credit hours · 100% online · Begins Spring 2027
Eligible students can use federal financial aid and VA education benefits to help pay for the program.
Learn to produce digital media, grow an audience, and build a business online, with integrity. Choose from tracks in visual production, writing, editing and publishing, performance, or strategy and analytics.
Bachelor of Arts
Business Management & Leadership
120 credit hours · 100% online · Begins Spring 2027
Eligible students can use federal financial aid and VA education benefits to help pay for the program.
Build a foundation in accounting, economics, marketing, finance, analytics, organizational leadership, and strategy, while developing the judgment and skills to lead.
The program includes SVU's core curriculum, and concludes with a capstone in strategic management.
Bachelor of Arts
Psychology
120 credit hours · 100% online · Begins Spring 2027
Eligible students can use federal financial aid and VA education benefits to help pay for the program.
Study the science of the mind: emotion, development, perception, motivation, learning, and personality, with statistics and research methods from your first two years.
A balanced major covers both the biological and the social bases of behavior, and finishes with History and Systems in your senior year.
Bachelor of Arts
Computer Science
120 credit hours · 100% online · Begins Spring 2027
Eligible students can use federal financial aid and VA education benefits to help pay for the program.
Learn programming, data structures, operating systems, and databases, then focus on one of two tracks: Full Stack Developer or Data Science/AI. You finish with a senior capstone.
Bachelor of Science
Data Science
120 credit hours · 100% online · Begins Spring 2027
Eligible students can use federal financial aid and VA education benefits to help pay for the program.
Learn to collect, clean, analyze, and communicate data, and the mathematics behind it: programming, databases, statistics, calculus, linear algebra, and artificial intelligence. Every student adds a minor in another field and finishes with a data science capstone.
Bachelor of Arts
Liberal Arts
120 credit hours · 100% online · Begins Spring 2027
Eligible students can use federal financial aid and VA education benefits to help pay for the program.
Read widely, think clearly, and write well: art, literature, Western civilization, and reasoning, then upper-division study across three disciplines of your choice. You finish with a senior paper.
Master's degrees
All Master's Degrees→Master of Education
COMING SOONCurriculum and Instruction
30 credit hours · 100% online · Begins Summer 2027
Federal student loans and VA education benefits are available to eligible students.
Pending accreditor approval to offer master's degrees. Join the waitlist and we'll contact you as soon as applications open.
Designed for practicing teachers who want to strengthen their craft, this program explores learning theory, instructional design, assessment, and school improvement. You'll also complete a practicum in your own classroom and finish with a capstone project. This is not a licensure program.
Spring 2027
Start this spring.
You don't have to wait for fall. All six bachelor's degrees begin in Spring 2027, with courses starting in January 2027. Or start with a flex-start course and build toward a degree.
Flex-start courses
Start a course any time and take up to 15 weeks to finish it. Tuition: TBD. Passed courses transfer in when you apply for a degree program.
Who is SVU Online for?
A flexible way to pursue an SVU education.
SVU Online is designed for students at different stages of life, from those beginning their college education to those returning to complete a degree or advance in their profession.
Students ready for college-level study
Motivated high school and homeschool students who are ready for college-level writing and mathematics.
Adults starting or completing a degree
Pursue your education while balancing work, family, and other responsibilities, with coursework designed for learning according to your schedule and without relocating.
Students continuing their SVU education
SVU Online gives former students another way to continue working toward their degree and stay connected to the university.
Teachers advancing their craft
Practicing educators can deepen their understanding of curriculum, instruction, assessment, and school improvement while continuing to teach.
Our mission
To gather faithful Latter-day Saints and those who share the institution's values, lift them intellectually, socially, and spiritually, and launch them into successful lives and careers.
Southern Virginia University mission statement
Questions? Talk with an Admissions Counselor.
Our team can answer your questions, help you explore your options, and walk you through next steps.