COSC adding new Majors

[SteveFoerster]

that is the piece of information I was missing. Now why does COSC do that, but TESC that was chartered in 1972 have Majors and some areas of study? Did TESC start out like it is now or did it change at a later time.

COSC is in Connecticut, and thus NEASC territory, whereas TESC and Excelsior are in Middle States territory. Different accreditors meant different rulings on what were then unusual cases.

While what they are doing with the BSBA and Applied Sciences and their areas of study are similar to a major in General Studies with a concentration, I feel that what TESC is doing is more defined and therefore more marketable to the job market.

This is probably something where better decisions are made using data than feelings. I'm not aware of any actual study on this, but the anecdotal evidence seems to be that it's not more marketable.

By the way, I'm not sure where the "COSC is a liberal arts college" idea originates. On looking I see that our Wikipedia entry says that, but to me that's not the case at all, so I've asked COSC for clarification whether we really self-identify as that. COSC does have a liberal arts requirement, but not all that strong of one, and it has concentrations (and now majors-by-name as well) that are clearly not liberal arts.