Starting in May, it will be possible for Business majors to work toward receiving a 4-year Bachelor of Science degree without leaving Carroll Community College.

Mount St. Mary’s College, one of the oldest private colleges in Maryland, is opening a branch of its Accelerated Business program at CCC’s Westminster campus. Working adults, with at least three years of full-time employment experience and who have earned 30 credits, are eligible to start the program. Upper-level business classes will be taught by Mount St. Mary’s professors in CCC classrooms.

“This is a program geared to professionals, who bring their corporate experience to the classroom,” said Dr. Linda Martinak, Assistant Dean for Continuing Studies at Mount St. Mary’s College. “These students ask for ready application of theories and require a unique style of teaching which is often quite different from that used with 18 and 19 year-old students in the traditional classroom.”

Classes meet one night a week, usually from 6 to 10 p.m., for five weeks. Three college credits may be earned for each 5-week session. With this “fast track” program students do not have to take courses on a “cohort” basis, but can enroll for each course as their schedules permit. Courses are offered every five weeks on a year-round basis, usually with a one-week break between modules.

Mount St. Mary’s started the Accelerated program in Frederick in October 1999. Since then, more than 200 students have enrolled in classes. Already two students have graduated from the Accelerated program and eight more students are expected to receive their diplomas at Mount graduation ceremonies in May.

For further information, contact Dr. Martinak or Dr. Judi Bell at 301.682.8315, email martinak@msmary.edu, or visit the Mount’s website at www.msmary.edu.

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