About Continuing and Innovative Education

This is your online learning portal to help you further your education, your career and your life. Continuing and Innovative Education (CIE) provides this new collection of premium online courses designed to help you learn new skills, increase your know-how, gain more confidence, and stand out from the crowd in both business and technology.

For 100 years, CIE has offered continuing education opportunities at The University of Texas at Austin to anyone with a desire to know more, to experience more, to be more. CIE’s mission has always been to extend the rich educational resources of the university to the people of Texas, and now the world.  We do this with a wide variety of high-quality services and programs that have served our students and clients for generations.

Here is just a glimpse of how CIE can fulfill your educational needs.

I want to finish my education.

• University Extension offers college credit courses to take online or in the evening. Special certificates and programs are also available.
• The University of Texas at Austin Online High School (UTHS) allows students to take online courses and earn their high school diploma.
• Traveling migrant students can keep up with their studies and graduate on schedule using distance learning tools from the Migrant Student Graduation Enhancement Program.
• Spanish-speaking high school students transferring to the U.S. from Mexico can also stay on track through services offered by the LUCHA program.
• Students in residential treatment centers and sports facilities find educational opportunities at the University of Texas-University Charter School.

I want to advance my career.

• A variety of certificate programs, seminars, workshops and consulting services are available at the Professional Development Center.
• The Petroleum Extension Service (PETEX) offers state-of-the-art training and publications for oil and gas workers.
• The UT Center for Performance Excellence helps a variety of business organizations achieve and sustain high performance standards.
• Mine workers find important safety and health training at the Texas Mine Safety and Health Program.

I want to learn something brand new.

• A number of personal enrichment programs are housed at the Thompson Conference Center.
• Informal Classes offers you new opportunities to help you enrich your life, jump-start your career, or uncover a hidden talent.
• Find an eclectic schedule history, literature, media, science, politics and art courses in the acclaimed Odyssey program.
• Adult learners can take courses purely for the love of learning and the promise of connecting to a social and academic environment through the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.
• Road Scholar allows lifelong learners opportunities to travel the state to explore history, culture, nature, music and much more.