A University as Unique as You
Your classmates live around the globe. Your classroom is your community. Your passion is making the world better – starting where you live.
Join Future Generations University and achieve the future you dream of.
Graduate Programs
Learn how to create and lead sustainable communities through our accredited Master of Arts in Applied Community Development or Graduate Certificate Programs.
Community & Research
Institutional research focuses on community-based research, where community is a full partner. It unites scholars and practitioners at the local level.
Lifelong Learning
A growing, organized, global network of Future Generations University's alumni provides an excellent resource for fellow graduates entering the field.
Your Opportunity
Future Generations University offers learning opportunities including a Master of Arts in Applied Community Development, Community Development certificate programs, customized training, workshops, and educational resources for a range of action-learning fieldwork. Headquartered in Franklin, West Virginia atop North Mountain, one of the highest elevations in the Monongahela National Forest, the University isn’t confined to campus grounds. With a global student body completing coursework within their own communities, Future Generations University is everywhere in the world students and alumni reside.
An Affordable, Flexible Degree
Future Generations University’s Master of Arts in Applied Community Development allows you to learn in a flexible, applied format – ideal for busy professionals and people with family or community commitments eager to be more effective and efficient leaders.
You will complete applied projects in every course that directly improves your work through “community labs.” Each class builds your professional portfolio that documents how you absorbed new knowledge, skills, and tools that relate to your unique career and community efforts. Each community lab positions you closer to the positive, lasting change you dream for your home.
Courses are conducted in a global classroom – a hybrid, live-online format designed specifically for active adults with duties to family, community, work, society and state. With an internet connection and computing device, you are equipped to complete your master’s degree. Future Generations University’s curriculum is flexible – supporting innovative teaching, providing peer-to-peer discourse, and prioritizing field research opportunities.
Earn your Master’s degree with 32 credits achieved through a combination of classes and residential courses, independent study and research, internship, prior learning assessment, and transfer credits.
The Master’s degree, accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, equips leaders with knowledge, skills, and real-world expertise that transforms all aspects of communities. The University conducts applied action-research through Community Engagement programs in Appalachia and Himalaya. Unique education methods across University programs incorporate life-useful learning, live-online classes, collaborative peer exchange, and real-world problem solving in communities.
You will complete applied projects in every course that directly improves your work through “community labs.” Each class builds your professional portfolio that documents how you absorbed new knowledge, skills, and tools that relate to your unique career and community efforts. Each community lab positions you closer to the positive, lasting change you dream for your home.
Courses are conducted in a global classroom – a hybrid, live-online format designed specifically for active adults with duties to family, community, work, society and state. With an internet connection and computing device, you are equipped to complete your master’s degree. Future Generations University’s curriculum is flexible – supporting innovative teaching, providing peer-to-peer discourse, and prioritizing field research opportunities.
Communities thrive when we share what we know.
Connect and participate with Future Generations University through webinars, learning series, action research, and storytelling. Here you will find tools, educational materials, digital resources, hands-on workshops, professional certificates, and strategic partnerships that help individuals, businesses, and populations flourish.
Master of Arts in applied community development
Your Opportunity
- Connect with sustainable development experts
- Be mentored while applying what you’ve learned
- Partner online with peers around-the-world
- Learn from nonprofits, government, higher education, and civic movements in 41 countries
- Master a proven method for community development
Peace Corps & AmeriCorps
Flexible Learning Options
- Begin with one course now or enter the master’s degree program when you choose
- Entry possible even if you do not have a bachelor’s degree
- Earn credit for what you already know
- Peace Corps, AmeriCorps scholarships apply
graduate-level courses
Affordable Master’s Degree
- All graduate-level courses teach applied skills
- Each course equips you with knowledge to advance your community project
- Excel across social change fields for just and sustainable impact
- Higher Learning Commission accredited program
Impact Around the World
Resilience through Community
Graduate Spotlight
Dr. Daniel Robison
Go West Old Man
Doubled Your Impact!
