More than 2,400 of MTSU’s undergraduate students are 25 or older.
Expanding service to nontraditional students represents one of the most significant opportunities to offset anticipated declines in the number of traditional-age college students over the next few years.
This has been an outstanding year for growth at MTSU Online. Our dedicated team has facilitated the addition of 15 new online degrees and certificates this year. And we continue to see increases in the number of online courses, student credit hours, sections, and fully online students (now more than 3,000 students).
The MTSU Online team has made significant contributions to the project of moving from the D2L learning management system to Instructure Canvas starting this summer. As part of the continuous partnership with the faculty and students, the team is creating and providing teaching and learning resources and live support to help everyone succeed in this new environment
Our MTSU Online team includes David Babb, Hangmin Zhang, Tara Perrin, Karen Hein, Tim Oneal, Tonya Dowd, Carol Hayes, RaeAnne Pardue, and Trey Martindale.
Here are some quick facts about MTSU Online:
• 57% of MTSU students took at least one online course in Fall 2025. This was over 12,000 students.
• MTSU offers 83 fully online degrees, concentrations, and certificate programs. We had 24 in 2019. MTSU also has 37 minors that can be completed fully online.
• MTSU had over 3,000 fully online students in Fall 2025, which is 14% of the total student headcount.
• 29% of all MTSU student credit hours (SCH) in Fall 2025 were from online courses.
• 47% of all graduate SCH in Fall 2025 were from online.
• Online enrollment (student credit hours) is at an all-time high and has increased for several consecutive years.
• MTSU Online supports 28 full-time temporary faculty in 18 academic departments who focus on high-quality online teaching.
• MTSU employs four full-time instructional designers who train and coach our faculty on effective teaching and technology use to make sure our students are receiving high-quality online instruction.
• MTSU Online supports many faculty services, including faculty development and training workshops, and peer mentoring, to make our online courses highly effective.
• MTSU Online courses feature engaging interaction with our faculty, which is known to increase student retention and degree completion.
• MTSU Online supports key student services for online students, such as counseling services, 24/7 live subject tutoring, library services, and writing center tutors, all of which are significant contributors to student retention and degree completion.
Fully online degrees and certificates launched in calendar year 2025 are:
• Business Administration, Data Analytics concentration, M.B.A.
• Business Administration, IT Project Management concentration, M.B.A.
• Cybersecurity Management, B.S.
• Data Science, graduate certificate
• Digital Media, M.S.
• History, B.S./B.A.
• Information Systems, M.S.
• Information Systems, Business Intelligence and Analytics concentration, M.S.
• Information Systems, IT Project Management concentration, M.S.
• Journalism, Media Studies concentration, B.S.
• Marketing, B.B.A.
• Marketing, Digital Marketing concentration, B.B.A.
• Marketing, Professional Selling concentration, B.B.A
• Project Management, M.S.
• Public Health, B.S.