Visiting Students
Visiting students are those who are currently enrolled at another institution and who want to take a class at Virginia Wesleyan University to be transferred to their home institution. The Visiting Student Application is primarily used in the Summer Session and January Term.
Non-Degree Students
Non-degree or unclassified students are those who are taking course work for credit but are not working toward a degree. A student who decides at a later date to change this status needs to reapply to the University as a degree-seeking student.
Audit Students
Audit students are those who take courses without record. Audit students may not change an audited course to credit status at a later date. Courses are open to auditors only on a space-available basis. There are several ways to audit a course:
- Official Audit
For students who need documentation of auditing a particular course. The regular tuition rate is charged and documentation is noted on a transcript from the Virginia Wesleyan Registrar's Office. - Audit
For students who do not need documentation, but would enjoy taking a particular course on a non-credit basis. The tuition rate is $50 per credit hour. - Unofficial Audit
For enrolled degree-seeking Virginia Wesleyan students who need a refresher course in preparation for a subsequent course. There is no charge for this arrangement, which is done on a space-available basis, and no record is kept. - Senior Citizen Audit
For senior citizens (age 62 or above) who wish to audit a course on a space-available basis. The tuition rate for senior citizens is $50 per course.
Non-Degree Programs
Continuing Education
Virginia Wesleyan University's University College offers an online continuing education program designed to provide advanced professional skills sought by employers in a variety of career fields. The program includes a comprehensive portfolio of personal and professional development courses (view featured courses) and career training certificates. It features hundreds of courses including accounting, business, information technology, computer applications, the environment, writing, and publishing.
Robert Nusbaum Center
Promotes the education and foundation needed to meet the challenge of fostering religious freedom in a diverse world. The Center offers a forum for people of deep faith and abiding conscience to share common goals that transcend denominational boundaries—a place where students, faculty and people of all faiths join together to forge a common ground of mutual concern, working to achieve civil solutions to difficult problems.
Westminster/Wesleyan Lifelong Learning Institute
Those living at Westminster-Canterbury on Chesapeake Bay can take non-credit courses in art, history, political science, psychology, religion, popular culture, and other subjects. Taught by Virginia Wesleyan faculty, the courses are offered at no cost to Westminster-Canterbury members on site, as well as on the Virginia Wesleyan campus.
General Education Mobile Program (GEM)
The General Education Mobile (GEM) Program is an exciting partnership between the Community College of the Air Force and Virginia Wesleyan University to offer General Education courses to meet the general education requirements for the CCAF associates in applied science. Virginia Wesleyan’s online courses enable students to complete their general education requirements during our min-terms that are offered 4 times a year.
Recertification and Continuing Education Program for Educators
Virginia Wesleyan University's Recertification and Continuing Education Program for Educators offers courses for licensed and provisionally licensed teachers in Virginia. This program is perfect for educators in need of courses that lead to certification renewal or those wishing to advance from a provisional to an official license. Educators may take courses at the undergraduate or graduate level. Educators providing proof of their Virginia Department of Education licensure can register for these courses through the Recertification and Continuing Education Program for Educators and receive a discount of over 70% off the traditional tuition day rate. Courses are taught in person or online (asynchronous instruction).
This is a non-degree-seeking program.
For more information please contact us at: ceinfo@vwu.edu or 757-233-8789