Augusta University, Augusta Tech partner for new program

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Augusta College and Augusta Technical Faculty introduced a groundbreaking partnership to create a brand new program for college students.

On Wednesday, leaders revealed the announcement and the initiative’s new brand at Jaguar Scholar Actions Heart at AU on Walton Approach.

This system will assist switch college students go from a two-year program at Augusta Tech right into a bachelor’s program at AU.

We checked into how this advantages the scholars and our native workforce.

This system known as Augusta Benefit, and it permits college students to acquire their affiliate diploma from Augusta Tech after which switch seamlessly with no points, missing no credit, straight into getting their bachelor’s.

Augusta College President Dr. Brooks Keel stated, “For the primary time individuals in Augusta can go from kindergarten to their Ph.D. with out ever having to go away the town of Augusta.”

There are eight pathways: enterprise administration, communication, pc science, kinesiology, nursing, political science, psychology and social work.

“This setting is unbelievable. And to provide people who go to Augusta Tech to get this affiliate diploma and determine to go on for a bachelor’s and grasp’s or Ph.D., however then to seamlessly switch over to us with out shedding plenty of the credit,” Keel says.

However additionally they needed to create a program that was reasonably priced for greater training.

Augusta Tech President Jermaine Whirl stated: “There’s plenty of college students that need to get a bachelor’s diploma, however proper now the price of greater training may be unattainable. And so to know that they will begin with Augusta Tech and go proper to au and never lose any momentum.”

Making the world of distinction within the lives of scholars like Emily Pinto.

Pinto, an Augusta Tech pupil, says, “It’s an choice principally, for us to get the assist that we have to transfer from a two-year program over to a four-year program, now we have some school below our belts, and we additionally had been simply capable of have a easy switch.”

“We have now pathways to the enterprise college, pathways to the humanities and sciences, and the humanities. and that covers all the pieces out of your psychology to your nursing packages enterprise packages and it cyber,” Whirl says.

Pinto who’s finding out graphic design, now not has to fret about logging on for her bachelor’s.

“I appreciated the choice of doing courses in individual as a result of I like individuals. I like being round individuals. and I be taught effectively when somebody exhibits me hands-on what I’m doing. So to have the choice of being in individual at a school relatively than doing it on-line simply works so effectively for me, and there are such a lot of different college students on the market identical to me like that,” Pinto stated.

Enrollment for the autumn on this program is now open. April Byrd is the advisor contact for Augusta Benefit if you wish to be taught extra.

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