Besides the regular day sessions, the University conducts special as well as regular evening and summer sessions and offers short-term workshops, institutes and conferences. All credited courses, whenever offered or in whatever form, conform to the same standards and are governed by the same policies and regulations prevailing during the regular day sessions.

As part of a comprehensive strategy for adult education through Graduate, Professional and Continuing Education, Special Programs and Continuing Education especially serves the part-time students of the Dayton community to make the University and its course offerings, both credit and noncredit, more easily available to them. Similarly, the Office of International Student and Scholar Services and the Intensive English Program, located in the Global and Intercultural Affairs Center, serves students, faculty, staff and visiting scholars from other countries who are studying or working at the University.

To foster interdisciplinary efforts, the Office of the Provost can administer courses designated UDI (University of Dayton Interdisciplinary) to accommodate interschool offerings and experimental programs.