What does "Degree Completion Program" mean?

Question

Well, I plan to go to this University where they offer a program called Bachelor of Arts (Degree Completion Program) in Psychology. What does "Degree Completion Program" mean? Does that require me to have an Associates Degree in order to get into this program?

Answer 1

Most of the time, a “degree completion program” means pretty much what you’d expect. It’s a way that you can finish a degree (usually an undergraduate or Bachelor’s degree) that you might have started in the past but for whatever reason didn’t get an opportunity to finish.

These programs typically don’t require that you have an Associate’s degree. That’s something normally awarded by junior colleges (and certain other institutions) that represents the idea that you’ve completed the first two years curriculum of a 4 year liberal arts program. But a lot of 4 year colleges and universities don’t award these degrees, so somebody might have only had a chance to just begin their studies - - or maybe even get to the point that they were almost done - - but for various reasons never got a chance to finish. The Associate’s degree is very helpful in certain situations. For example, in places like California, the three tiers of the higher education system (junior colleges, California State Universities, and the various campuses of the University of California) are loosely coupled in that there are articulation agreements that gives you a real advantage if you have an Associate’s degree and want to complete your education at a CSU or UC campus in terms of admissions priority.

The other important characteristic of the degree completion programs is that they’re pretty liberal in terms of accepting college credits from other schools that you’ve completed in the past. Also, they might provide “credit for life experience” where things like your work experience can often translate into credits towards your degree.

These kinds of programs are great for people who might have been in school once, but circumstances resulted in them not being able to get the degree they set out for.

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Answer 2

A Degree Completion program is a list of the right classes you will need to complete your degree in psych

Answer 3

A degree completion program is when the university outlines specifically what classes you will take, in what order you take them; so when you are finished taking all the classes, you have a degree! Plain and simple....

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