All UH Distance Education credit courses are regular junior, senior, or graduate level UH courses taught by regular faculty, with all the same standards, prerequisites, and requirements as on-campus sections of identical courses. Not all courses are available through Distance Education.
All courses run according to the regular academic calendar.
Students will only be assessed the off-campus and electronic course fee for the first two courses. Undergraduate Council or Graduate and Professional Studies Council reviews degree programs offered via Distance Education. Distance Education typically pays instructional salaries to faculty for courses or sections taught as an overload or for courses taught off-campus by lecturers. Distance Education reimburses all instructors teaching at the above off-campus sites for mileage according to state regulations. Distance Education reports all distance education courses to the Coordinating Board in order to secure formula funding for the university and assists departments with international course approval.