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 colleges’ accelerated diploma pathway applications in pc science, engineering and legislation passed off within the Dodd Auditorium lobby in UMW’s George Washington Corridor, with provosts, deans and different directors in attendance.

“A whole lot of work has gone into the efforts to make as we speak 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, in the end work that shall be good work as a result of it can profit our college students, our school and our applications.”

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 individuals to roll tuition and costs into present monetary help packages, facilitate information sharing between the 2 colleges and in the end enhance pupil outcomes at each universities.

“In different phrases, it offers your gifted college students and our gifted college students an opportunity to realize a aggressive edge in a subject of research 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 really need.”

Throughout their senior 12 months, accepted 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 applications embody Utilized Data Expertise, Pc Science, Information Analytics Engineering, Operations Analysis, Statistics and Methods Engineering.