Academic and Degree Programs
UMUC is one of the largest providers of distance education in the United States. Courses are delivered in traditional classroom settings, as well as online. Even before the advent of online education by way of the Internet, UMUC was a distance education pioneer and offered distance learning using its WebTycho interface by way of dial-up access. UMUC later adopted the use of the Internet for connectivity to its online classrooms, as well as using television and correspondence courses to deliver course content.
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