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We strongly recommend to our prospective students that they take a virtual tour to determine whether distance education is right for them or not. Distance Education Virtual Orientation provides written and interactive materials covering all aspects of distance education at North Carolina State University. While taking the virtual tour, please play videos in which our former and current students share their own experiences with distance education at NC State University.
Leadership in the Public Sector program (LPS) is a degree completion program and designed to offer a Bachelor of Arts Degree (B.A) to non-traditional students who do not have access to a brick and mortar college or university. In this regard, active military personnel and their families stationed in North Carolina, working adults, and community college graduates are encouraged to apply for LPS. However, traditional students who are currently enrolled in a regular degree program at North Carolina State University will NOT be accepted to LPS.
To be admitted to the LPS distance education degree completion program, a candidate must have:
- An Associate of Arts degree (A.A) or approximately 60 university credit hours of college-level work including a sufficient amount of social science courses.
- A 2.5 GPA on his/her completed approved college level work.
- A demonstrated language proficiency in English, if the applicant's native language is not English.
- A complete application form.
Restriction on Curriculum (Major) Change for LPS Students
The LPS program is designed to serve a constituency for whom traditional education is not a possibility. To better serve our non-traditional students in the military, the LPS program is a member of Servicemembers Opportunity Colleges (http://www.soc.aascu.org/). Our membership in SOC allows active military personnel and veterans to transfer certain military credits into their LPS plan of study. Please talk with your LPS advisor about the types of military credit that may be transferred. It is important to understand that the LPS program is the only degree program at NC State University that accepts this transfer of military credit. While our SOC membership may help our military personnel and veterans graduate sooner by transferring military credits, this arrangement is no longer in effect if a student changes his or her major from LPS to another major. There is no other program at NC State University that currently allows the military credit transfer.
Admission into the LPS program does not ensure admission into any other academic program at NC State University. The LPS program has distinctive application, admission, enrollment, and credit transfer criteria which differ from other NC State University traditional (face-to-face) majors. In this regard, our students are able to transfer more credit hours from other institutions (especially, from the military) and have flexibility to take only 30 of their last 45 credits at NC State University. Hence, major (curriculum) change from LPS to a traditional NCSU degree is highly restricted. For further information about major change, please contact LPS program adviser.