Degrees and Programs

Concordia University Chicago's supervised work experience offers opportunities for students to receive academic credit while gaining practical work experience in the accounting field.

Concordia’s applied microscopy program allows you to take advantage of our partnership with the Hooke College of Applied Sciences. Concordia’s outstanding faculty and natural science programs provide excellent foundational instruction, while the Hooke College of Applied Sciences offers specialized education from its experienced staff scientists and hands-on training with a wide range of state-of-the-art microscopy instrumentation.

Do you enjoy expressing your creative side through art? Are you fascinated with art history?  Does using art in a business or helping profession appeal to you? The Studio Art program at Concordia University Chicago focuses on the many aspects of art ranging from history to painting to desktop publishing, and prepares you for a career that uses your artistic expression.

Art teachers are dedicated to making their subject accessible, understandable and meaningful to their students. They are advocates who can articulate in a day-to-day classroom setting the importance of student learning in the visual arts.

Students who want to become art therapists express themselves creatively, are interested in human behavior and have a desire to serve others.

We offer an intensive pre-art therapy program that prepares you for success in art therapy graduate work, which can lead to your master’s degree and becoming a Registered Art Therapist.

In the broadest sense, biology is the study of life, which can be studied through molecular, organismal, cellular and ecological perspectives. 

A business communication degree from Concordia University Chicago is about learning how to coordinate and integrate all marketing communication tools, avenues and sources within an organization to create a strategy that achieves specific goals.

In pursuing the innovative business intelligence and analytics major from Concordia University Chicago, you will learn to collect and use data to make intelligent business decisions.

Are you interested in studying medicine, forensics or chemistry?  Do you enjoy lab work? Do you want to enter medical school? 

Modern churches and recognized not-for-profit service organizations must operate similar to businesses, including payroll, insurance, risks and staff. Therefore, it is important for pastors to understand best practices related to a variety of business topics and environments. Because of these complex demands that extend beyond the call, it is important for pastors to understand basic principles of not-for-profit organizations.

Wisdom, eloquence and virtue—these are the qualities of a classically educated individual. If you are interested in a classical liberal arts education in the Lutheran tradition, the Classical Liberal Studies major at Concordia University Chicago is the ideal program to facilitate your pursuit of knowledge.

The Classical Teacher Education Program draws from this rich heritage to equip future educators with skills and knowledge to teach in classical schools and home schools, consortiums, settings that do not require state licensure, and other institutions in and beyond the United States.