Double Major Question

[mm1988]

I searched the forum, but I could not find the answer. When you double major at TESC or Excelsior, are both of your majors listed on one degree, or do you get two separate degrees?

[ryoder]

Depends.
If you do a BA History/BA Psychology for example, you get one degree and one diploma they are both listed on your transcript. You can do both concurrently.

If you do a BA History/BSBA General Management, you are earning 2 degrees and you actually have to wait until the BA History is conferred before taking any tests or classes on the BSBA.

This is what I am doing. I did a BSBA CIS, it was conferred June 3, then I started the BA Natural Science. If I want, I can probably add a BA Humanities to my one BA that I will be completing. In that case I won't have to wait but I do have to get 24 new credits in the Humanities concentration and only 9 "old" credits can be used. These 9 are usually whatever upper level credits you have. You then typically need a few more upper level and some mid and lower level.

[KyleH]

Make sure the double major is in your best interest. I was initially going to double major in History and Political Science but with all those free electives being used up I decided it would be better to do fema courses (which are free) for the free electives rather than a double major. I'm using the time and money I saved to start my Masters program which is a double major in History and Political Science, what I wanted in the first place.

[mm1988]

Thanks everyone. I'm in the military, so I'm enrolled at Excelsior and TESC. It's free as long as I take some courses from each school. I'm about to get a liberal studies degree in November from Excelsior, I just wanted to have a degree under my belt. I'm also gonna do Computer Science at TESC.

I was also thinking about Natural Science and Mathematics as the second major. I want to get my graduate degree in Computer engineering, so I think the Computer Science and Natural Science/Mathematics would be a good background to get into the Computer Engineering program. I can't do engineering, so I wanted to at least do a hard science.