ANN ARBOR, MI - Concordia University Ann Arbor will transition a large number of its academic programs to online-only learning after the next school year in an effort to cut costs.
The private, Lutheran-based Ann Arbor university currently offers 53 on-campus academic programs. Only seven will be offered in the 2025-26 school year, the university announced on Thursday, June 20, in a communication to the university community from Leah Dvorak, vice president for academics.
On-campus classes and activities will remain on campus during the 2024-25 school year.
During a June 6 meeting, the university’s Board of Regents said the Ann Arbor campus did not have the resources to pursue autonomy from its larger affiliate in Mequon, Wisconsin., but the plan was to keep the Ann Arbor campus open past June 2025, while reviewing the future of academic programs.
At this meeting, regents authorized university administration to make substantial changes and, during a June 19 meeting, Concordia’s Academic Council approved the adjustments coming to the Ann Arbor campus in the 2025-26 school year.
The cost-reduction measures will be used to overcome a projected combined $9-million budget shortfall at the Ann Arbor and Wisconsin campuses.
Diagnostic medical sonography, nursing, radiology technology and rehabilitation science are the only on-campus undergraduate offerings remaining after next year, the communication states, adding that graduate programs in occupational therapy, physical therapy and physician assistant degrees also will be offered on campus.
Seven programs, mainly focused on education-based degrees, will be offered online. All other programs will be cut completely, university officials said.
