MPIU Degree Pre-requisites
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Core Curriculum Statement

PRE-REQUISITES & CORE CURRICULUM

Functional literacy and prior education or learning are the only prerequisites for admission to MPIU. We require functional literacy: oral and written English communication. We stand ready to support applicants with additional literacy learning opportunities such as optional ESL which we guarantee and include for those who need to upgrade their literacy in English as a Second Language. Degrees may be offered in other languages, check with Admissions. Additional functional literacy requirements are online communication and internet use, and basic computational general math.

In order to highlight the real world problems that we expect our graduates to apply their talents toward, we require every student to complete the five core curriculum subject areas:

These five core curriculum subject areas are not "courses" in the classic sense of lecture and test, but are more individual inquiry and group explorations of problems and dilemmas that shape our lives now. These set the stage for all learning that follows.

DEGREE DIFFERENTIATION

We offer three sequential and different degrees: Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral. At most colleges, the Bachelors is usually four years of undergraduate course work after secondary or high school. At some universities, the Masters is normally one or two years of graduate study after completion of the Bachelors. At other institutions, the Doctoral is typically two or three years of graduate course work after the Masters or three or five years after the Bachelors. At MPIU, our use of self paced online learning and the Oxbridge tutorial approach allows you to complete your degree in considerably less time or gives you permission to take as much time as you need, just in case you have other life commitments like work and family. Additionally, degree acceleration waivers may be obtained for some requirements upon appropriate presentation and MPIU acceptance of Prior Learning Self Assessment documentation as set forth by MPIU's and CAEL's published standards. 

For all degrees, the Bachelors, Masters or Doctoral qualifications culminate in a valuable evidence-based or experience based research project, thesis or dissertation respectively. The Bachelor's Project ought to replicate existing work from a field of study in order to confirm or refute its findings. The Master's Thesis should extend existing work by replicating it in a new way. The Doctoral Dissertation must be original work.