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Interdisciplinary Studies
PO Box 1510
Pembroke, NC 28372

Phone: 910.521.6472
Email: bis@uncp.edu

Location: Sampson Hall, Room 216
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We’ve all heard about Bachelor of Arts (BA) and Bachelor of Sciences (BS) degrees, the standard four-year degrees awarded by colleges and universities all over the country. They’re important and useful degrees, because they prepare graduates for a range of professions. But they’re mostly for traditional students (people who start college at 18, right after high school) or for students who transfer to a four-year college or university with a two-year standard associates degree.

But what if you decided long ago to get an associates degree in applied arts or sciences?

That’s the kind of degree that usually trains you for a profession, with many profession-specific courses, but little of the general education coursework needed for a BA or a BS degree. Lots of people have two-year associate degrees in applied arts or sciences. These degree holders have jobs in interesting, hot job fields like computing, electronics, engineering, data processing, health services, paralegal services, criminal justice, occupational therapy and graphic arts.

Until now, if you have an associates degree in applied arts or sciences and you wanted to extend your education to a four year bachelor’s degree, you had to go back to school and lose the credits you gained in your earlier degree.

No more!

Now, through UNC Pembroke, you can get a four-year bachelor’s degree and not lose all those credits you earned earlier. That’s right, the new Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies (BIS) degree program at UNC Pembroke allows you to apply most of the credits you earned getting an applied associates degree to a four-year university degree.

Updated: Wednesday, May 25, 2011