Online Bachelor's in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Examine identity, equity, and social change while preparing for careers that make a difference.
Why Earn Your Online Bachelor's in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies?
KU's online bachelor's in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies prepares you to examine some of society's most pressing questions about gender, sexuality, identity, equity, and social change. Whether you're searching for an online gender studies degree or an online women's studies degree, you'll build the research, writing, communication, and analytical skills needed to evaluate complex issues, challenge assumptions, and contribute thoughtfully across a wide range of professions. As one of the oldest Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies programs in the United States, KU has long been at the forefront of scholarship and action surrounding these critical issues.
Designed as a degree-completion program, this online bachelor's is intended for students who have previously earned college credit and want to finish their degree. Students typically enter with at least 24 transferable credit hours, with approximately 40 hours recommended, from KU, a community college, or another accredited institution. As an AAU research university, KU combines academic rigor with the flexibility of online learning to help you complete your degree while preparing for careers in education, public service, nonprofit leadership, business, healthcare, law, communications, and other people-focused fields.
What You'll Study
Study the ideas that shape society
KU's online bachelor's in women's, gender, and sexuality studies explores how gender, sexuality, race, class, culture, and power shape people's lives, communities, and institutions. Through interdisciplinary coursework, you'll develop the analytical, research, and communication skills needed to examine complex social issues from multiple perspectives.
Identity & Society
Understand how identity is shaped by history, culture, community, and lived experience.
Power & Policy
Examine institutions, systems, and public policies that influence opportunity and equity.
Culture & Community
Explore media, representation, global perspectives, and the communities people build.
Research & Advocacy
Build research, writing, and communication skills that support meaningful social change.
Coursework draws from the humanities and social sciences while encouraging critical thinking, evidence-based analysis, and thoughtful engagement with issues that affect individuals and communities around the world.
Career Opportunities with a
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Degree
An online women, gender, and sexuality studies degree prepares graduates to apply research, communication, analytical, and equity-centered thinking across public service, compliance, planning, research, education, and other professional fields.
Career Outlook
Lightcast data shows strong demand across occupations commonly associated with women, gender, and sexuality studies graduates:
- 213,267 jobs nationwide
- 19,104 annual openings
- $77,200 median annual earnings
- 6.6% projected growth from 2025 to 2035
In-Demand Career Skills
Employers hiring for related occupations consistently seek professionals with a mix of research, communication, analysis, planning, and compliance skills.
- Research & Data Analysis
- Professional Communication
- Writing & Documentation
- Project Management
- Regulatory Compliance
- Planning & Coordination
Career Paths
Graduates may apply their interdisciplinary training in roles connected to research, policy, compliance, planning, public service, and social analysis.
- Compliance Officer
- Regulatory Affairs Specialist
- Social Science Research Assistant
- Urban and Regional Planner
- Political Scientist
- Sociologist
- Anthropologist or Archeologist
- Historian
Areas of Study
Students examine gender, sexuality, identity, power, and social change through an interdisciplinary liberal arts and sciences curriculum.
- Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Social Justice and Equity
- Identity, Culture, and Society
- Public Policy and Social Change
- Research and Analysis
- Writing and Communication
Why get an online bachelor’s degree in women, gender, and sexuality studies from KU?
In our women, gender, and sexuality studies program, you’ll learn methods to critically analyze social issues from multidisciplinary perspectives. Together, you and other students and faculty will collaborate across social sciences and the humanities, building a valuable professional network. And you’ll develop expertise on issues that matter most to you, allowing you to pave your own way toward meaningful career paths.
This is exactly the same degree you would earn as an on-campus student within the same program. Our online courses are taught by the same highly regarded faculty and expert instructors and contain the same rigorous educational standards as our on-campus programs. All classes are managed by the departments that offer them and not by an outside party. When you earn your bachelor’s degree online from KU, you earn a KU degree.
How flexible is online learning at KU?
KU’s online degree programs are designed with your busy schedule in mind and offer the flexibility to study wherever — and often whenever — is most convenient for you. Our online courses contain the same rigorous curriculum and instruction — taught by the same highly regarded faculty — as the instruction in our on-campus programs.