Echoing and expanding on Purdue University’s new three-year communications degree, the University of Iowa is planning on rolling out three-year degrees across a host of majors for the 2015-2016 school year.
The school’s official news outlet, IowaNow, said that President Sally Mason proposed the three-year program at a board of regents meeting last week.
The school “expects to identify” academic programs that are “suitable” for an accelerated schedule starting this fall, which exclude those with “lab-based or capstone courses, or fixed course sequences that take more than four years to complete.”
It won’t be a cakewalk, though:
Three-year degrees would require the same number of credits as four-year options, but offer advising and plans of study that help students fulfill requirements more quickly. …
The three-year degree proposal would include summer study, taking advantage of the Summer Hawk Tuition Grant awarded to all new students. The grant covers up to 12 semester hours of summer tuition for students from Iowa, or the difference between resident and nonresident tuition for students from other states.
The school already has a higher-than-average four-year graduation rate, facilitated by a program that ensures most students can “enroll in the courses they need to graduate in their primary major in four years,” IowaNow said.
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