Complete Your General Education Requirements Through the Air Force GEM Program

The Catholic University of America is a participating institution of the Air Force (CCAF) General Education Mobile (GEM) program.

GEM is a CCAF/Catholic University partnership to offer an online option for Airmen to complete general education courses for their CCAF degree. The program enables students to sign up for their general education requirements in a single block of courses from the same college, providing greater educational continuity and faster completion of an airman's associate degree.

With the GEM program, students near the beginning of their education will enroll for general education classes as a single five-course sequence taken online. Credits will transfer and apply toward the CCAF degree.

• Course Schedule
• Contact information: email metropolitan@cua.edu or call 202-319-5256
• Tuition and Financial Aid

The Catholic University of America offers a reduced tuition rate for students taking courses provided by the Metropolitan School of Professional Studies (MSPS) and the Busch School M.S.M. program. Students taking courses outside MSPS and the Busch School M.S.M. are charged the regular tuition rates of the school offering the course. The university also maintains a financial aid program for students who demonstrate need. For more information on financial aid, please visit the Web site for Catholic University's Office of Financial Aid.

For access to information about private source MSPS scholarships, Community College graduate scholarships and additional sources of funding assistance, visit our page on Financial Assistance Resources.

Military Benefits

The Office of Enrollment Services works in partnership with the Defense Department and the Department of Veterans Affairs to assist service members, veterans and dependent to participate in educational benefits programs that facilitate their enrollment in classes at Catholic University.

The Catholic University of America proudly partners with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' Yellow Ribbon program, delivering Yellow Ribbon education benefits to post-9/11 military veterans since 2009. All undergraduate and graduate programs at Catholic University participate in the Yellow Ribbon program.

List of approved GEM courses

MHU131	Presiding, Presenting and Speaking
MHU151	Rhetoric and Composition
MID150	College Mathematics
MSO190	Sociology
MSO271	World Politics
MSO 266	International Affairs
MHU 235	History of Media in the United States
MHU 365	World Literature
MRE 369	The Protestant Experience
MPH 250	Professional Ethics