Saint Mary's is unique in its creation of Liberal Education for Arts Professionals, or LEAP program. LEAP is designed to offer professional dancers a track to a Bachelor of Arts degree through an individualized and comprehensive liberal arts curriculum. In order to meet the needs of a broad community of arts professionals, classes are offered in a hybrid-format (partially in-person, partially online) in San Francisco and New York, and in 2020 a new fully-online version of the program became available in select locations.