Bachelor’s Degree in Multidisciplinary Studies

Tuition for the BA in Multidisciplinary Studies is set at $486 per credit hour.

The price quoted above reflects the total per-credit-hour cost of tuition and fees for exclusively online students. Most classes are three credit hours. The total cost can vary depending on the hours needed and possible transfer credits.

UTSA Online reserves the right to modify tuition and fees without prior notice, upon approval by The University of Texas Board of Regents.

Under state law, the UT Board of Regents is authorized to set tuition. The UT Board of Regents may consider the proposed tuition and fee increases at an upcoming board meeting. For this reason, your registration is not considered final until after the Board’s action setting tuition and fees for each academic year.

You may qualify for financial aid, including grants, loans, and scholarships. For eligibility, you must complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) for the applicable aid year. UTSA’s federal school code is 010115. You must complete a new application each year you are attending.

As a Military Friendly School, we offer many programs to support our students in the military, our veterans, and their families, while working closely with the UTSA Veterans Certification Office. Veterans and military families, please note that UTSA’s Online BA in Multidisciplinary Studies is not eligible for the Hazelwood Act benefit.

The online Multidisciplinary Studies program offers eleven specializations:

• Business – Course topics include accounting; economics; business law; information systems for management; and organization theory, behavior, and management.
• Communication – Course topics include digital business communication; foundations of communication; language and communication theory; persuasion; and rhetorical communication analysis (not combinable with the Digital Media Influence focus area).
• Data Science – Course topics include programming for data science, data visualization, data mining, and machine learning, and statistics. Students who complete the data science focus area as part of a bachelor’s degree will be eligible to also receive the undergraduate certificate in data science. Note: After completion of all the Data Science courses, you may apply to obtain the Undergraduate Certificate in Data Science. This certificate can offer you a supplemental credential for your resume at no additional cost. Please ask your academic advisor for more information. 
• Digital Media Influence – Course topics include editing, introduction to digital communication, commercial publications, and digital media production (not combinable with the Communication focus area).
• Geography & Environmental Sustainability – Course topics include what links and differentiates cultures, political systems, economies, landscapes, and environments across the world, while using geographic technologies such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), and online mapping.
• Global Affairs  – The Global Affairs focus area will allow you to develop analytical skills to understand different regions of the world and the interactions between people, states, international organizations and private entities that occur in world politics. Course topics include US in the Global Area, Introduction to Global Politics, International Law, National Security Law, and Global Governance.
• Health – Course topics include community and public health; drugs and health; human nutrition; weight management; and program planning and evaluation.
• Humanities – Course topics include history of ideas; history of cultures; introduction to humanities; and global humanities.
• Medical Humanities – Course topics include Introduction to Medical Humanities, Introduction to Community and Public Health, Race and Ethnic Relations, Biomedical Ethics, Global Health Communications.
• Political Science – The Political Science focus area provides an understanding of current political events in a larger context. Course topics include Law and Society, Women in Politics, American Presidency, and Urban Development Politics.
• Sociology – Course topics include race and ethnic relations; social context of drug use; criminology; gender; and qualitative research methods.

The program also includes 27 credit hours of elective courses, providing plenty of opportunity to customize your degree to your interests and career objectives.

Time-to-completion will vary based upon the number of previously earned credits that are eligible for transfer. If taking the full 120 credit hours required, it can take four to five years, depending on course load. With transfer credit, the time to graduation may be significantly less—possibly one to two years.

A maximum of 66 credit hours of lower division (freshman and sophomore) transfer work from a community college will be allowed to apply to a bachelor’s degree at UTSA. If you have exceeded the 66 hours of lower division work, the most applicable 66 credit hours will be applied to the degree you would like to earn. In order to earn a degree from UTSA, all students must successfully complete a minimum of 30 applicable credits at UTSA.

There is no maximum number of transferable hours from a four-year accredited institution. However, the applicability of the transfer coursework to the degree you would like to earn must be determined. Any coursework that does not correspond to courses offered by the university may transfer as elective credit.

All applicants to the Multidisciplinary Program are subject to the standard UTSA requirements. Visit this page for more details or call (210) 458-4000 to speak to an enrollment counselor.