College of Arts & Sciences

Thank you for visiting, as I am excited to welcome you to the College of Arts & Sciences of Embry-Riddle’s Worldwide Campus and its internet presence! The college is proud of its reputation as an international leader in online education in the aviation and aerospace industry as well as in multiple interdisciplinary fields, such as Emergency Services and Management, Human Factors, Human Security, Homeland Security, Safety Management and Communication.

Our vision is “to be a destination college for multidisciplinary studies and impactful collaborative research as well as continue to be a national leader in general education, developing opportunities for our diverse student population to fulfill their educational goals and become responsive, responsible global citizens.”

We develop and deliver flagship academic degrees as well as research programs across a variety of disciplines with the goal of integrating research, teaching and outreach into an interdisciplinary center of excellence. Concurrently, we initiate interdisciplinary programs and courses that invigorate the general education program, grounded in a valuable set of competencies for the aviation and aerospace enterprise as well as for professional safety and security disciplines.

Through multiple modes, it comprehensively delivers employable higher education in a variety of fields of the arts and sciences across disciplinary, geographical and cultural boundaries. The college offers several bachelor’s and master’s degrees in a variety of disciplines and modes of delivery (including but not limited to fully online).

All our degree programs are now STEM-designated based on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) STEM Designated Degree Program List, a complete list of fields of study that DHS considers to be science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) fields.

There are also a number of minors available: Applied Data Science, Communication, Economics, Emergency Services, Environmental Science, Homeland Security, Humanistic STEM, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, International Relations, Mathematics, Military Science, Military Studies and Occupational Safety and Health.

We also have graduate certificates in Human Factors and Occupational Safety Management, and we started a professional education program in Security, Safety and Risk.

The college further, and very importantly, provides the General Educational program, over 2,000 sections of general education courses annually as part of every degree program at Embry-Riddle Worldwide, with a focus on developing competencies in eight areas: collaborative learning, communication, critical thinking, cultural literacy, information literacy, quantitative reasoning, scientific literacy and technological literacy.

We are committed to a holistic approach to student success and a personalized online learning experience. Our 40 full-time and well over 300 part-time faculty deliver courses globally online via Canvas, synchronous via EagleVision to both home and classrooms, face-to-face at 130 U.S. and international locations, and blended. We support student success and career readiness through multiple components in addition to our academic degree programs, such as the Center of Mentorship Programs & Success (COMPASS), Everything Quantitative for Teachers and Students (EQUATES) or the Virtual Environment for Communication: Teaching, Outreach and Research (VECTOR). 

The college is excellently networked and collaborates with local, state and federal government agencies and the private sector to increase opportunities for graduates, as well as to let our programs’ curricula evolve not only along the scientific state-of-the-art but also along with real-world workforce requirements.

The college is committed to contributing to the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University research mission, with the goal of promoting excellence in applied research and impactful scholarship. Our research projects have been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Natural Hazards Center (NHC), among others. We are also creating a research environment that extends into the classroom — for example, enabling undergraduate and graduate research experiences, as well as placing students on internships where they have an early opportunity to be involved in real-world applied research projects.

We are excited to be launching our new multidisciplinary, interdepartmental Virtual Collaboratory on Security and Resilience Education, Research and Engagement.

My main focus area is to champion a collaborative effort to steer our college to its next level of excellence while engaging with the whole college student, faculty and stakeholder community. I am working with that whole community to pursue our shared vision from which our joint priorities derive.

Let me invite you to explore us here online, to connect and to get involved!