Weekend College Business Degree -
Cohort Program
This program is
designed for adults who are interested in a business career but
whose schedules prevent them from attending during the work week.
It should be of particular benefit to students who:
- Have been thinking about a career in business but can’t afford to
stop working
- Enjoy their current jobs and would like to advance through further
education
- Have been encouraged by their supervisors to complete a degree
- Started a degree but had to leave school before finishing
- Are simply too busy during the week to attend classes
A cohort community with flexible entry points In the core business courses, students will work together
as a community of learners, all with the same professional goal.
However, individual participants can enter the cohort or stop out,
temporarily, on a quarter-by-quarter basis.
General
education requirements—science, communications, and math, for
example—can be completed in whatever sequence and at whatever time
best meets an individual student’s needs.
The program
maintains what’s best about learner cohorts—mutual support, a sense
of community, and a career-focused curriculum—while accommodating
the individuality of students’ lives, interests, and abilities.
Degree details The program leads to
an Associate of Arts degree tailored to meet
requirements for entry into a bachelor’s degree program in the
School of Business at the university level.
- Local and nearby
transfer options include Central Washington University-Des Moines — right on the Highline
campus — as well as the University of Washington-Seattle, University
of Washington-Tacoma (UW-T), Seattle University, Seattle Pacific
University, and Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma.
- Students
could also apply to Western Washington University in Bellingham, Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Washington State University, and the
Central Washington University main campus in Ellensburg.
Under the Direct Transfer Agreement (DTA) of the Inter-College
Relations Commission (ICRC), a student who completes the AA degree
at a community college will have satisfied all or most of the basic
(i.e., general education) requirements at most of the public
four-year colleges in Washington, as well as many private
institutions. More Information
For details and course information, check out:
You can also contact an advisor.
Entry and degree-completion timeline Students can begin any quarter. Full-time attendees can complete the
degree in as few as six quarters. Longer timeframes are, of course,
possible for students who prefer lighter quarterly credit loads.
Last updated:
June 11, 2007
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