Fielding Graduate University

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Fielding Graduate University is an accredited nonprofit leader in blended graduate education, combining face‐to‐face and online learning. Our curriculum offers quality degrees and courses for professionals living and working anywhere in the world. Fielding’s faculty members represent a breadth of scholarship and practice within the fields of clinical psychology and media psychology, human and organizational development, and educational leadership and change. Maintaining Fielding’s reputation for quality programs faculty are mentors and guides to self‐directed students who use their skills to become powerful, and socially‐responsible leaders in their communities, workplaces, and society.

Fielding is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California, where it was founded in 1974. Core values of transformational learning and social justice are reflected in the research and professional practice of our students, faculty, and alumni. Our global, distributed community of professionals is dedicated to:

lifelong learning
social justice and innovation
advancement for individuals, organizations, communities, and society

The Fielding learning model differentiates us from most other universities enabling us to serve a diverse student population in specialized fields. Some of our master’s and advanced professional development programs are offered entirely online. Our doctoral programs use a distributed, or blended, format that is tailored to support students through:

face-to-face regional, research, and national sessions
independent study
online seminars
meetings with fellow students, faculty, and alumni

Fielding faculty members are practitioners as well as distinguished scholars in the varied academic fields represented within the three schools. They demonstrate passionate support of their students and a commitment to learning outcomes of the highest standards. Much of the faculty-student relationship is one-to-one, harkening back to the classical tutorial model. Faculty members become academic partners with students. They honor students’ prior experience and their intellectual, personal, and professional goals. The result is a collaborative learning experience that elicits creative solutions and enlightened practice.

Visit the programs page for links to comprehensive information about the degrees and certificates offered, curriculum, faculty, and requirements of the programs in each of our three schools.

What is the Fielding difference?

Aggregated data from all degree-granting programs as of August 31, 2012.

Student Body Demographics
Enrollment 1,061
Age Range 23-78

Ethnicity
Native American 1.7%
Asian 5.1%
African American 14.1%
White 61.2%
Hispanic 3.4%
Multi-Ethnic 5.9%
Unknown 8.4%

Alumni 3,884
In 50 states and Washington DC, and

in 30 countries

Faculty
Core 88
Adjunct 48

Staff in Santa Barbara

What are people saying?

"The personal, caring support of Fielding faculty inspired in me a can-do attitude that carried me through the sometimes tough and turbulent times of doing a doctorate largely online. Even though I lived in a remote part of Western Canada, I never felt alone. Earning my doctorate with Fielding was one of the most empowering experiences of my life. "

-Franzi Ng, EdD, Student

Is blended graduate education in a distributed learning environment right for me?

Learn more at an information session about our graduate programs

The best graduate school for adult learners.