UMW, George Mason renew agreement for dual enrollment

The College of Mary Washington and George Mason College have renewed partnerships designed to speed up pupil success and open the door to extra agreements between the 2 colleges starting as early as subsequent 12 months.

A signing ceremony reconfirming the schools’ accelerated diploma pathway packages in laptop science, engineering and regulation occurred within the Dodd Auditorium lobby in UMW’s George Washington Corridor, with provosts, deans and different directors in attendance.

“Plenty of work has gone into the efforts to make right this moment what it’s,” stated UMW Provost Tim O’Donnell, who signed the official doc together with George Mason Provost James Antony. “It’s actually a prelude to extra work to return, finally work that shall be good work as a result of it’ll profit our college students, our school and our packages.”

The UMW-Accelerated Mason Program graduate pathways allow twin enrollment, permitting Mary Washington college students to mix undergraduate and graduate diploma necessities and lowering the time it takes to earn a grasp’s diploma and unlock elevated incomes potential. Additionally they permit members to roll tuition and charges into present monetary help packages, facilitate knowledge sharing between the 2 colleges and finally enhance pupil outcomes at each universities.

“In different phrases, it provides your proficient college students and our proficient college students an opportunity to realize a aggressive edge in a area of examine by exposing them to superior abilities and data earlier and permitting them to finish their levels hopefully extra rapidly,” Antony stated. “And I feel that’s what all of us actually need.”

Throughout their senior 12 months, permitted Mary Washington college students can enroll in a grasp’s program at George Mason’s School of Engineering and Computing and earn as many as 9 credit of graduate-level coursework. Contributors can apply these credit towards each their bachelor’s diploma at UMW, as electives, and their grasp’s diploma at George Mason, permitting them to finish a grasp’s in as little as one extra 12 months.

Eligible packages embrace Utilized Data Know-how, Laptop Science, Knowledge Analytics Engineering, Operations Analysis, Statistics and Techniques Engineering.