What happened to University of Mount Olive at Washington?

WASHINGTON, N.C. (WNCT) — For those who routinely drive between Beaufort County and Pitt County, you is perhaps aware of the College of Mount Olive at Washington signal on Hwy. 264.

Mount Olive’s Washington satellite tv for pc location opened in 2005 and celebrated its 10-year anniversary in 2015. However the constructing has been vacant for a few years.

9OYS reached out to UMO to search out out the standing of the satellite tv for pc campus. UMO Public Relations Director Rhonda Jessup responded with this assertion:

“The academic panorama for grownup and graduate college students has modified.  The creation of latest software program, cloud computing, and prepared entry to expertise for nearly each American has made on-line schooling a pupil choice.  With a forward-thinking strategy, the College of Mount Olive designed on-line packages to be accessible and supportive of our grownup college students who’ve competing commitments. Due to the success of our on-line packages, within the fall of 2019, we closed all of our satellite tv for pc areas.  Now, college students have the comfort and suppleness to finish their research at dwelling, in an area Starbucks, throughout lunch breaks at work, or from wherever at any time.  Whereas many Universities supply on-line packages, UMO has a confirmed track-record of training working adults which has led to our continued success.”

Mount Olive’s foremost campus is positioned about 80 miles from Washington.