Your Path to Success Starts Here.
Launch your career with a two-year associate degree from Dominican University’s Chicago Campus. Study in Pilsen with the potential to have your tuition and mandatory fees fully covered through our No Out-of-Pocket Promise, or enjoy the flexibility of earning your degree fully online. Either way, you’ll gain in-demand skills and a direct path to a bachelor’s degree.
Graduate Career-Ready
Go beyond typical two-year programs with embedded concentrations that ensure you stand out in your job search. Choose from:
- Cybersecurity: Take classes like digital forensics and ethical hacking as you prepare to sit for CompTIA certifications or transition into majors like computer science.
- Certified Nurse Assistant: Prepare to become a licensed CNA or to transfer into our health-related bachelor’s degree programs.
- Legal Studies: Make an impact on pressing needs, such as immigration, or prepare for the required certification exams to become a paralegal.
- Translation and Interpretation: Pursue a career in a variety of multilingual settings and functions—from hospitals, offices, and courthouses to ad agencies, film studios and more.
The City is Your Campus
Picture this: you're learning a lesson about environmental studies, but instead of sitting in a chair, your lessons come to life in the scenic trails of the Morton Arboretum. You're learning how to use Copilot to elevate your brand directly from a Microsoft expert. Regardless of your career, this forward-thinking curriculum will prepare you for a lifetime of impact. Learn more about our city-as-campus program:
Live in the Vibrant Pilsen Neighborhood
In year one of the program, you have the option of living at La Casa Residence Hall, which offers apartment-style living on a floor with eight other students. Just steps away from the CTA Pink Line, this location offers easy access to public transportation as well as restaurants, entertainment, and cultural activities.
Everything You Need to Succeed
From academic counseling to career coaching, experienced faculty will craft a personalized success plan and support your progress—every step of the way. Throughout the program, you’ll gain exposure to a wide variety of companies and directly network with Chicago’s top employers, so that you graduate with an established network. Hear from some of our recent graduates about their experience:
Dominican's No Out-of-Pocket Promise
Our associate degree is designed to be a low-cost, high-impact program for students with limited financial resources. Through our No Out-of-Pocket Promise, students who commute to the Chicago campus and qualify for the full Pell Grant and Illinois MAP Grant* will have their tuition and mandatory fees fully covered, resulting in no out-of-pocket cost. For students living on campus, you may pay as little as $5,500 after full MAP and Pell Grant eligibility. This not only covers the cost of your tuition but also your room & board, a meal plan, a laptop and UPass for convenient transportation around the city.
*Based on Pell and MAP grant levels as of September 2026.
Your Associate Degree, Delivered Online
"There’s a certain intimacy in the classroom that you don’t get at bigger universities when there are hundreds of students and one professor. Your professor has a better connection with you when you have a smaller class. Within the two years of being here I feel I've built great connection with all my professors. I can confidently say that if I reached out to them for letters of recommendation, they would provide them for me."
Kaniyah Ware
Dominican University Chicago Campus graduate
Your Goals Are Within Reach
You've got tenacity and ambition. At Dominican, you'll find the support you need to power your potential. A strong candidate for our Chicago Campus program will be a current or recent high school graduate and have a cumulative GPA of 2.0 or higher. For more information and to see if you qualify, please complete the form below.
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