Exeter University has opened its new Centre for Degree Partnerships.
It currently offers 2,900 degree partnerships and is hoping to increase that number to 5,000 by 2030.
Under the scheme employers fund courses with apprentices typically spending 20% of their time studying and 80% working.
The new centre was opened by Education Secretary Gillian Keegan who told the BBC she would not be in her current role had she not done a degree apprenticeship herself.
Rachael Johnston, director of the centre and associate professor, said: "Degree apprenticeships are totally transformational for anybody's career but they're also openly accessible for people to join.
"It's a real opportunity to turbo-charge your career and you're learning whilst you are applying that knowledge into the workplace."
Education Secretary Ms Keegan told the BBC: "I left school at 16 in Liverpool and started as an apprentice in a car factory, then they sponsored me to do a degree.
"I am pretty sure I would not be the Education Secretary for England if I had not done my degree apprenticeship."
