The highest applied credential in AI — built for leaders.
A professional doctorate for experienced professionals who already lead with AI and want the title to match. You produce a real applied project in your own field — not a shelved research thesis — across 48 credits, 100% online, on a schedule built around your career.
APEX-Track is the accelerated path through the Doctorate in Applied AI: Accelerated Professional EXperience. Competency-based learning decouples time from credit — so the years you've already spent leading with AI count for something. Move in focused 8-week Sprints, skip what you've mastered, and reach your defense in as few as 15 months instead of 27–36.
Competency-based study lets you go as fast as you can demonstrate mastery. Pick a pace and see your runway to the doctorate. (A minimum completion floor protects the degree's depth.)
Balance the doctorate with a full workload — a measured, sustainable rhythm with room to breathe between Sprints.
Illustrative runways within AGTU's 15–36 month completion range. Your advisor sets exact milestones; the applied-project capstone is paced separately.
APEX-Track's signature differentiator lets experienced candidates test through what they already know — and spend their time only where it counts. No competitor offers a fully integrated, AI-proctored skip-ahead.
Open a Sprint module and start with a short pre-assessment — a 5–10 question diagnostic that gauges what you already know.
Clear the bar and you bypass the lectures and readings entirely, jumping straight to the competency demonstration. The basics never slow you down.
Pass the module assessment (B or higher) and the next module unlocks — with a real letter grade on your transcript, not a flat "pass."
Each course splits into 1–2 credit Sprint Modules, each one a single, precisely defined competency. Progress is constant and visible — finishing three modules in a day is real, motivating movement.
One flat Sprint fee covers unlimited module completions in the window. Go as far as you can — the faster you demonstrate mastery, the lower your effective cost per credit, and the sooner you reach your capstone.
APEX-Track plugs into the same GPA scholarship that powers every AGTU degree — so velocity and grades compound.
Demonstrate mastery in your Sprint and earn real letter grades — a 4.0 is yours to claim.
Your Sprint GPA sets your scholarship on the next Sprint — a 4.0 earns up to 100%, so you pay $0 to keep going.
Lower cost and no speed caps mean you keep moving — straight toward your defense, sooner.
Enter directly, skip through fundamentals you've mastered, and transfer prior graduate credits — APEX-Track gets you to the applied project faster than any traditional doctorate.
Decades of executive practice are exactly what the Skip-Ahead feature rewards. Qualify through a selective review and let your experience accelerate you. Not there yet? The Master's + Doctorate combo is built for you.
Your applied doctorate connects to the same four pillars that make every AGTU program accessible — pair it with the path that fits your life.
Pillar I
Learn for free and let your GPA earn your scholarship — up to a 100% full ride.
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Pillar II
A transparent merit scale where every grade tier unlocks a bigger discount.
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Pillar III
Self-paced study with no speed caps — finish your doctorate sooner.
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Pillar IV
Bring your master's credits with you and reach your capstone faster.
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Tell us your background and the problem you want to solve. A real doctoral advisor will confirm your entry path, estimate how much you could skip ahead, and map your fastest honest route to defense — no obligation.
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