Washington–(business wire) — Strayer University, an accredited higher education institution for adult students, celebrates its 130th anniversary by honoring the university’s legacy of championing change that benefits students. Since its founding in 1892, Strayer has focused on providing students with accessible and affordable degrees, career-related curricula, and innovative technology that advances learning.

Strayer offers flexible online undergraduate and graduate degree programs and a career-focused focus. For decades, career readiness has remained a pillar of the university’s educational model, beginning with efforts to equip farmers with business skills in the 1900s, to the 1960s, when most education was confined to the classroom. In the 1990s, on-the-job training was provided.

An advocate for inclusivity, Strayer has also prepared the female workforce since the early 1900s and remains an advocate for diversity today. In 2021, 72% of her students were identified as female, and her 67% of Strayer students were identified as Black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, or Asian. .

Andrea Backman, president of Strayer University, said: “Today, we continue to provide financial and academic support to a diverse and traditionally underserved population. I am incredibly proud.”

To further foster student success, Strayer has incorporated technology into its academic programs since it began offering online classes in the 1990s, while other universities were still exploring the Internet. They continued to offer interactive course content and introduced supportive measures designed to keep students in the decades that followed. , helping busy students save critical time and focus on their studies by quickly dealing with administrative tasks. In addition, the university’s production arm, Strayer Studios, has incorporated short films produced by award-winning filmmakers into its course curriculum to help students understand and remember what they have learned.

For 130 years, Strayer University has expanded access to education by providing affordable options for today’s learners while driving change to better support students. Her commitment to reinventing education has enabled her more than 150,000 students of diverse backgrounds to graduate.

For more information, please visit http://www.strayer.edu.

About Strayer University

Founded in 1892, Strayer University is an institution of higher education for working students. Flexible and affordable undergraduate and graduate degree programs in business administration (including the Jack Welch Management Institute MBA), accounting, information technology, education, health services, public administration, criminal justice, and non-degree web and mobile application development. Offers. Courses by Hackbright Academy and Devmountain. Strayer University is an accredited institution and a member of the Central Higher Education Commission (MSCHE) (www.msche.org). Strayer University’s Accreditation Status is Accredited Reconfirmed. MSCHE recently reaffirmed Strayer University’s accreditation status in June 2017 and the next self-study assessment is scheduled for the 2025-2026 academic year. MSCHE is an accrediting body of educational institutions accredited by the U.S. Secretary of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA). For more information, please visit http://www.strayer.edu.