通识教育学位为学生提供了进行个性化学习课程的机会。该专业使学生可以探索和整合来自多个系，计划和学院的学术产品。通识学位是通识教育的传统，可以广泛地教育学生。该学位不应与USU的跨学科研究学位相混淆，后者也是提供个性化学习课程的学位，但具有两个按主题组织的课程作业的特定结构要求。
The General Studies degree provides students the opportunity to pursue a personalized course of study. This major allows students to explore and integrate academic offerings from across multiple departments, programs, and colleges. A General Studies degree is in the tradition of a liberal arts degree that educates a student broadly. This degree is not to be confused with USU's Interdisciplinary Studies degree-also a degree that offers a personalized course of study, but one that has specific structural requirements of two thematically organized sets of coursework.