Mission The mission of Columbia Southern University is to change lives through education by offering affordable, flexible, quality academic opportunities and extraordinary service enabling adults to maximize their professional and personal potential, and serve the communities in which they live and work.
Description One of the nation’s first completely online universities, Columbia Southern University was established to meet the demand for alternatives to the traditional university experience. All degree programs are offered completely online.
Associate, bachelor's and master's programs are available in a variety of fields including fire science, criminal justice, organizational leadership, business management and administration, information technology, human resource management and occupational safety and health. Undergraduate and graduate certificate programs are also available to provide focused training in specialized areas.
Columbia Southern University (CSU) is an accredited member of the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC). The Accrediting Commission of the DETC is listed by the U.S. Department of Education as a nationally recognized accrediting agency. All CSU programs have been reviewed and approved by DETC.
Columbia Southern University has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 163 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Columbia Southern University employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).
Overall, 74% of employees would recommend working at Columbia Southern University to a friend. This is based on 163 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
57% of job seekers rate their interview experience at Columbia Southern University as positive. Candidates give an average difficulty score of 2.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) for their job interview at Columbia Southern University.