Boise State University’s online Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Professional Studies gives you the opportunity to take creative control of your education with study across multiple disciplines to coincide with your educational and career goals.
You can tailor your interdisciplinary studies degree plan by selecting one or more relevant concentrations or one of three emphasis areas. The program also offers certificate and concentration options to further enhance your general degree requirements.
Emphasis areas
Community and social impact: Prepare to meaningfully engage in your community by nurturing an innovative, adaptive and community-conscious mindset with this emphasis. You can also customize your impact with three complementary certificates that combine your passions with your professional skills.
Cyber operations management: Acquire the management and communication skills needed to lead within the rapidly-growing cyber industry. You can combine certificate options and tailor your learning experience to achieve your goals and meet the demands of the career field.
Design and media management: With a combination of skills to create, produce and manage content across multiple platforms and the understanding of how existing and potential users interact with it, this emphasis area prepares you to be a design and media professional. You can choose an additional certificate to complement those skills.
Certificates and concentrations
The interdisciplinary professional studies program also allows students to customize their degree with certificates and concentrations, going beyond emphasis areas. These certificates range from business to project management and beyond. Included in the certificate options are two built by the interdisciplinary professional studies program to offer a broad range of options for students.
Applied emotional intelligence and well-being: Learn to examine issues from multiple perspectives, evaluate personal wellness and explore your values, interests and skills with this option.
Design thinking for professional purpose and personal fulfillment: Create a meaningful life and become a reflective learner by discovering integrative thinking principles, how to articulate your contributions to the workplace and explore your professional values and goals with this certificate.
Maximize your experience
The online Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Professional Studies is designed with flexibility and affordability in mind. The program increases access if you face significant barriers to earning a degree. You can use your technical associate degree, certificates or prior college credits, or:
- Community college partnerships: Through Boise State’s partnership with Idaho community colleges, you can transfer up to 80 general and technical education credits to apply to your interdisciplinary studies degree plan.
- Credit for prior learning: You can create a portfolio of your work, volunteering and life experience that showcases your learning to potentially count toward your interdisciplinary studies degree plan, saving you time and money.
- Technical credits: Apply your 12 technical education credits to leverage your hard work toward your interdisciplinary studies degree plan.
As a student in the online Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Professional Studies program, you will deepen your understanding of context, make meaningful connections, build collaborative and productive relationships and become a reflective, adaptive learner.
The fully-online format helps you balance your schedule and learning style, so the interdisciplinary studies degree plan is ideal for working professionals and adult learners.
You will also benefit from a faculty and staff that are empathetic and supportive of learning while balancing competing priorities.
As a graduate of the program, you will qualify for a broad range of employment opportunities in fields that offer more upward mobility.
Learn more about the interdisciplinary professional studies program
Earning an online Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Professional Studies from Boise State University can open doors to new opportunities and a brighter future — and we’re here to support you every step of the way. Whether you’re exploring if an online degree is right for you or need help transferring credits, connecting with a student success coach is the perfect first step.
Ready to learn more? Attend one of our online information sessions or contact a student success coach today.