Berkshire University · Online

Empowering minds, shaping futures.

A private online university for working professionals. Earn a bachelor's, master's or doctorate that builds on what you already know.

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Three ways into Berkshire

Whether you are an experienced professional, a learner who needs flexibility, or an employer checking a document, this is where you begin.

Assess my experience

Turn years of work into graded courses on your transcript, through real tests.

How it works

Study online

Short lessons, real workplace tasks and an advisor who knows your plan.

The learning experience

Verify a certificate

Employers and institutions can check any Berkshire document in seconds.

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Berkshire in numbers

Built for people who are already doing the job

Since 2015 we have worked with professionals and with the learning centres that support them in their own countries.

Colleges and programs

Nine colleges.
One standard of work.

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Business and Management

14 programs
  • Business Administration
  • Accounting and Finance
  • Human Resource Management

Computing and Technology

10 programs
  • Computer Science
  • Information Technology
  • Software Engineering

Engineering

10 programs
  • Civil Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Electrical Engineering

Health Sciences

11 programs
  • Clinical Nursing (for practising nurses)
  • Clinical Medicine (for licensed physicians)
  • Surgical Instrument Technology

Law and Criminal Justice

7 programs
  • Law
  • International Commercial Law
  • Criminal Justice

Education

8 programs
  • Education Studies
  • Social and Emotional Learning
  • Early Childhood Education

Arts and Humanities

5 programs
  • English Language and Literature
  • Translation Studies
  • Media and Communication

Social Sciences

15 programs
  • Public Administration
  • Psychology
  • Industrial and Organizational Psychology

Science and Mathematics

5 programs
  • Mathematics
  • Applied Statistics and Data Analytics
  • Environmental Science

Many other specializations

Your field is not on the list? Send us your CV and tell us what you do. We will tell you which program fits your experience.

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How it works

From your career to your degree

We do not ask you to start from zero. We ask you to prove what you know, then study the rest.

Read the assessment policy →

  1. 01

    Apply and share your record

    Send your CV, previous certificates and evidence of your work. An admissions advisor confirms the right program and level for you.

    A reply with your first reading
  2. 02

    Have your experience assessed

    Each course you claim is checked against its learning outcomes through a short test and a review of your evidence. Every result is recorded with a grade.

    Course by course, with a grade
  3. 03

    Study what remains, online

    You complete the remaining courses on our online learning platform, at your own pace, with assignments and a final assessment for each course.

    A personal study plan
  4. 04

    Graduate with verifiable documents

    You receive your degree certificate and a full transcript of courses, credit hours and grades. Each document carries a number anyone can verify on this site.

    Certificate, transcript, verification
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Four things you can do before you apply

No account and no payment. Each one shows you a real part of how Berkshire works.

One minute

Estimate your courses

See how many courses your experience could open to a test, and how many you would study.

Open the estimator Thirty-five minutes

Read a lesson

Part of a real unit, with its checks, its case and a tool for your own workplace.

Open the lesson Twelve minutes

Take a sample test

Ten questions of the kind used to assess experience, with your result at the end.

Start the test Any time

Ask the assistant

Questions about programs, fees and admission, answered from the information on this site.

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Online study

A platform made for one free hour at a time

Your courses are delivered on the Berkshire online learning platform. It was designed for people with a job, a family and very little spare time.

  • Short lessons

    Study at night, at the weekend or in your lunch break.

  • Tasks from your real job

    What you learn is used the same week you learn it.

  • Coaching feedback

    An AI study assistant comments on your practice answers. It never changes your grade.

  • One advisor, one plan

    A personal study plan before you enrol, followed to graduation.

See how a course works →

A message from the University

You have already done the hard part

You did not wait for a classroom to start learning. You learned on night shifts and site visits, in budget meetings, in front of customers, and from mistakes you only made once.

Years of that work are an education, even if no one has ever written it down. Berkshire University exists to write it down properly.

We do not hand out credit for a job title. We test what you know, course by course, teach you what is missing, and put the result on a degree that anyone can check.

It will ask something of you. You will be examined, you will study, and you will complete a graduation project of your own. In return, everything you have learned gets a fair hearing.

It is never too late to hold the degree your work has earned. Begin when you are ready.

Berkshire UniversityKnowledge, integrity, excellence

Your degree

A degree made to be checked

This is the Berkshire degree certificate. Every part of it has a job, and the last one is the most important: anyone you show it to can confirm it on this site in seconds.

  1. Your nameWritten exactly as it appears in your passport, so the certificate matches your identity documents.
  2. Your degreeThe degree and the program you completed.
  3. Date of awardThe day the University awarded the degree.
  4. Number, code and QRUnique to each certificate. It is how an employer checks the document.
  5. University sealPressed into the paper of the original certificate.
  6. SignaturesSigned by the University.
  • Academic transcriptEvery course with its code, credit hours and grade, and your grade point average.
  • Verification recordA record that an employer can check, once verification opens on this site.
  • For use abroadNotarization and apostille on request, which confirm the signature and seal on the document.
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Our graduates

From the Gulf to Europe, and beyond

Our students and graduates live and work across the Arab world, in Europe and in other regions.

  • The Arab worldThe Gulf, the Levant, Iraq and North Africa.
  • EuropeGraduates living and working across the continent.
  • Other regionsWherever work has taken our students.

Study is online and every document can be verified from anywhere, so where you live has never been a condition for joining us.

About Berkshire →

Admissions

Who can apply

No entrance exams and no fixed intake dates. Applications are not open yet: register your interest and we will write to you when a program opens.

Admission requirements →

Bachelor's degree

You need
A secondary school certificate or its equivalent, and documented work experience in your field.
Program
120 credit hours. A large part can be met through assessed experience.

Master's degree

You need
A bachelor's degree or its equivalent, and professional experience related to the program.
Program
Advanced courses and an applied project drawn from your workplace.

Doctorate

You need
A master's degree or its equivalent, and senior professional or research experience.
Program
Advanced study and an applied research project in your field.
For employers and institutions

Verify a Berkshire certificate

Certificates issued earlier are checked on our previous verification page. Verification on this site opens with the first certificates issued under the new system.

Check a document

Online verification on this site starts when the first Berkshire certificates are issued under the new system.

Certificates issued earlier are checked on our previous verification page: students.berkshireuniversity.us. For anything else, write to info@berkshireunv.us.

Quality and accreditation

Our path to international accreditation

Accreditation is earned, one program at a time. We are building Berkshire to be examined.

  1. In progressBuild to published standards

    Every course, credit hour and assessment record is designed to the standards international accreditors review.

  2. NextPrepare each program

    Programs are prepared for accreditation one at a time. Until an accreditation is announced here, each employer, university and government body decides for itself whether it accepts the degree. Ask yours before you enrol.

  3. On the day it is grantedAnnounce it, with the documents

    Each accreditation will be published on this site the day it is granted, and never before.

Read the full statement →

Insights

Guides for working learners

All guides →
Guide

What is the assessment of prior learning?

How a university finds out what you learned at work, and what a sound assessment looks like.

Read the guide
Guide

How to document your work experience

What to gather before you apply, and how to describe what you did so an assessor can use it.

Read the guide
Guide

Credit hours, explained

What a credit hour measures, and why it stays the same when a course is met by assessment.

Read the guide
Learning centres and employers

Bring Berkshire programs to your students or your staff

Berkshire has worked with learning centres that enrol and support their own students through our programs. If you run a training centre, or want to develop your employees, talk to our partnerships office.

Become a partner →
Common questions

What applicants ask first

All questions →

How long will my degree take?

It depends on how much of the program your assessed experience covers. Every student studies part of the program with us, however experienced they are. Your advisor gives you a personal study plan, with the number of courses and an expected finish date, before you enrol.

What happens if I do not pass an experience test?

Nothing is lost. The course is marked "not yet mastered". You can retake the test once you are ready, or study the course online like any other.

What will my certificate and transcript show?

Your degree, your program, and every course with its credit hours and grade, in the standard university format. How each course was completed is kept in your student record, and our assessment policy is published in full.

I work full time. Will I manage?

The programs were designed for exactly that. Lessons are short, there are no fixed class times, and most tasks are carried out in your own workplace. It still takes steady effort every week.

Admissions

Find out how much of your degree you have already earned.

Send us your CV. An admissions advisor will reply with a first reading of your record and the program that fits it.

Register your interest →How to apply

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