UMUC Bachelor's Degrees

Majors and Minors
Degree Planning Worksheets

Additional Resources:
Overall Bachelor's Degree Requirements
General Education Requirements
Major, Minor, and Elective Requirements
Second Bachelor's Degree

Expectations

UMUC aims to produce graduates who are well prepared to be responsible citizens of the global society as well as effective participants in the complex, fast-changing world of work. A bachelor's degree from UMUC offers a multidimensional experience, combining a solid educational foundation with cross-curricular breadth and focused study in an academic discipline. Through that experience, UMUC graduates develop and demonstrate the hallmarks of the educated person: intellectual ability, curiosity, and flexibility; fundamental skills in reasoning, analysis, and expression; understanding of the principles of scientific and intellectual inquiry; awareness of global and historical context; and civic and ethical responsibility. UMUC demands that students demonstrate the ability to learn and to apply that learning to career and life experience.

The UMUC degree begins with basic intellectual tools. Core learning areas are further promoted by integration throughout all programs. UMUC conducts learning outcomes assessments to measure and improve student learning in these areas as well as in specific disciplinary knowledge and skills.

In pursuit of an academic major (and minor), the UMUC student acquires mastery of a considerable body of knowledge in a specific academic subject area or group of related subjects. Each major and minor provides clearly articulated objectives for the knowledge, skills, and abilities a student acquires in completing the major or minor.

Requirements

In general, the UMUC degree requirements that apply to a student are those that were in effect when the student began continuous enrollment in any public institution of higher education in Maryland (including UMUC). If a student has not been continuously enrolled, the requirements that apply are those in effect at UMUC when the student resumes continuous enrollment. To be considered continuously enrolled, degree-seeking students must be or have been enrolled at UMUC or another Maryland public institution of higher education and have had no more than two sequential years of nonenrollment. When a continuously enrolled student chooses to change his or her degree program, the student may be subject to all degree requirements in effect at the time of the change.

Last updated: 24 October 2006