About this program
Applied Technology is a fully online bachelor's degree from UW–Porter Falls. A Bachelor of Applied Science that builds directly on a completed technical associate degree — your trade is the major; Porter adds the bachelor's.
It is asynchronous, runs in seven-week terms with six start dates a year, and is taught by the same faculty as Porter's on-campus programs. The transcript and diploma do not distinguish online from on-campus study.
Who it is for
Graduates of an accredited technical or occupational associate degree in any field — automotive, HVAC, machining, culinary, criminal justice, early childhood, and more — who want a bachelor's that keeps their technical training as the core rather than treating it as elective credit.
Transfer credit
This is a degree-completion program: you transfer in the first roughly 60–72 credits and complete the upper division online. The B.A.S. accepts up to 72 credits of technical associate-degree coursework as the lower division, including credit other bachelor's programs reject — so a completed technical A.A.S. typically leaves 40–48 credits.
Send prior transcripts before you apply and an advisor returns a course-by-course evaluation showing exactly what applies and how many credits remain — usually 33 to 48. Credit from Wesconsin technical colleges is accepted here even where other four-year programs reject it.
Courses you will take
The upper-division sequence is 34 credits of online coursework. A completed sample is below; the official catalog is authoritative.
| Course | Title | Cr. |
|---|---|---|
| BAS 3100 | Applied Technology Seminar (transfer credit review and plan) | 1 |
| BAS 3200 | Technical Project Management | 3 |
| BAS 3300 | Applied Statistics and Data | 3 |
| BAS 3400 | Quality and Process Improvement | 3 |
| BAS 3500 | Supervision and Workforce Leadership | 3 |
| BAS 3600 | Cost, Budgeting, and Estimating | 3 |
| BAS 4100 | Applied Communication and Documentation | 3 |
| BAS 4200 | Technology, Ethics, and Regulation | 3 |
| BAS 4300 | Training and Instruction in the Workplace | 3 |
| BAS 4400 | Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Applied Fields | 3 |
| BAS 4800 | Applied Practicum (workplace project) | 3 |
| BAS 4900 | Capstone: Applied Technology Portfolio | 3 |
Beyond the core, the degree includes a small number of general-education credits (usually satisfied by the transfer degree) and free electives.
Format and pace
Take one course (part-time) or two (full-time) per seven-week term. Part-time, a completion degree finishes in about 2 to 3 years; full-time roughly halves that. You can move between full- and part-time term by term, and pause for a term without reapplying.
Coursework is readings, recorded lectures, discussion, projects, and problem sets with weekly deadlines. Assessment is mostly applied work; where a course needs a proctored exam it uses at-home online proctoring, stated in the syllabus before you register.
Cost
Billed at Porter's flat online per-credit rate with no nonresident surcharge — the same price from any state. Fully online students do not pay the campus activity, recreation, or transit fees; a small per-term online course fee covers the platform and library delivery.
Degree-seeking students file the FAFSA and are eligible for federal aid. For employer tuition assistance, student accounts invoices the employer directly and offers deferred payment that waits for reimbursement. See tuition & costs and financial aid.
Where graduates go
Graduates move into roles such as:
- Lead Technician / Crew Lead
- Shop or Service Manager
- Technical Trainer
- Field Supervisor
- Small-Business Owner
Median reported starting or post-completion salary for this program: $66,700. Program-level outcome data is published on the career services site.
How to apply
Apply online with no fee and no essay. Submit transcripts from every college attended; a 2.0 cumulative GPA and a completed transfer degree (or ~60 transferable credits) are the baseline. Decisions come in about two weeks, and you can start in the next available term.
An online-admissions advisor is assigned to you before you apply and stays your advisor through graduation.
Accreditation
UW–Porter Falls is institutionally accredited, reaffirmed through 2036, and authorized to offer distance education to students in every U.S. state. Online programs carry the same institutional and, where applicable, specialized accreditation as their on-campus counterparts.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. This program, its courses, credit values, costs and salary figures are invented; nothing here describes a real degree you can enroll in.