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Transfer Programs Most Popular at NACC
About 70% of Northeast students this fall
semester are enrolled in college majors that are designed to
transfer to a 4-year college or university. This indicates that
they intend to continue their education and earn a 4-year
bachelor’s degree.
“One primary mission of the college is to
prepare students at the college freshmen and sophomore levels to
continue their education through transfer,” states Dr. Joe
Burke, NACC Vice President/Dean of Instruction. “A student can
begin here in about any college major imaginable to obtain the
core courses and transfer those courses to a 4-year university,”
Burke emphasizes. The Statewide Transfer and Articulation
Reporting System (STARS) enables Northeast students to plan the
full four years of college courses when they are transferring to
an Alabama public college.
Once students complete two years of
college at Northeast, there are convenient options for them to
continue their education. Athens State University has an office
on the Northeast campus and offers many classes there and
online. Athens recently announced three new majors which are
designed to prepare students for some of the many BRAC jobs that
are coming to Huntsville. Those new majors at Athens State are:
Acquisition and Contract Management, Enterprise Systems
Management, and Logistics and Supply Chain Management. Troy
State University has eight bachelor’s degree programs that
students can obtain entirely online once they finish NACC:
Business Resources and Technology Management, Applied computer
Science, Business Administration, Criminal Justice, Political
Science, Psychology, Social Science, Sport and Fitness
Management, and Interpreter Training.
Studies show that Northeast students tend
to make very good grades once they transfer. According to Burke,
“In most cases, Northeast transfer students have as good or
better grade point averages after two years at the universities
as the university students who have been there for their
freshmen and sophomore years.”
According to data from the U. S. Bureau of
Labor Statistics (www.bls.gov),
the more education individuals have the less likely they are to
be unemployed and the higher their income. For example, in 2008,
of those who had only high school diplomas saw an unemployment
rate of 5.7%, while those with bachelor’s degrees had an
unemployment rate of 2.8%. The median weekly earnings for high
school graduates were $591 and those with bachelor’s degrees had
weekly earnings of $978. Dr. Burke states,
“Certainly an education pays in more ways than one and there’s
no better place to begin than at NACC.”
For more information on transfer programs
at Northeast, go to www.nacc.edu or call 638-4418 or 228-6001.
Pictured are Devin Kennamer and Autumn Brown,
current transfer students at NACC.
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