It's not always easy transferring college credits from a community college to a four-year degree, but two U.P. schools are making that process a little easier.
Bay de Noc Community College in Escanaba and Finlandia University in Hancock have signed a transfer agreement that aligns course credits at the two schools to make transferring from one to the other as painless as possible for students.
"Through this articulation agreement, students attending Bay College will have a roadmap that matches specific Bay College classes to bachelor and associate degree course requirements at Finlandia," says TyAnn Lindell, Finlandia's VP for academic and student affairs. "Equivalency sheets have been developed for 14 Finlandia degree programs."
Those programs are bachelor's degrees in business administration, fine arts, elementary education; liberal arts bachelor's degrees in communication, criminal justice, English, psychology, social science, sociology, pre-professional science, and arts, culture and environment. The associate's programs for medical assistant and physical therapist assistant degrees also are included.
"The equivalency sheets are intended to minimize duplication of academic requirements by clearly delineating how a Bay College student can arrange their course schedules to transition smoothly from completion of a two-year degree program at Bay College into a degree program at Finlandia," Lindell says.
Students can contact the Finlandia
admissions office for more information.
Writer: Sam Eggleston
Source: TyAnn Lindell, Finlandia University
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