Tusculum College now offering online management degree

Tusculum College will soon be offering an online bachelor’s degree in business management, according to Tusculum President Nancy B. Moody.

The college, which will begin offering the program in the fall,  was notified of its approval to offer the program by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges in late March. The accrediting agency approved for Tusculum to offer 50 percent or more of the credits for the Bachelor of Science in Management degree program in an online format.

The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges is the regional body for the accreditation of degree-granting higher education institutions in the Southern states.

According to Dr. Moody, this will be the college’s first fully-online degree program, although Tusculum has a successful history of the delivery of online coursework.

“The current trends in education and the need to provide accessible programs to adult and non-traditional students have led the college to decide that the time had come to develop a program that could be offered fully online,” said Dr. Moody. That program was developed by faculty and submitted to SACSCOC for approval.

The BSM degree program will be identical to the degree that is offered in Tusculum’s traditional program; only the delivery system will change. Course hour requirements and credits for graduation will be identical in both the online and classroom-based programs.

“Tusculum is making strong investments to offer fully online degree programs. Over the last three years, the college has spent $2.2 million dollars on technology, including software programs and data management systems, as well as the hardware to support college-wide wireless access,” said Dr. Moody.

For more information on any of Tusculum’s academic offerings or degree programs, contact the Tusculum College Admission Office at 1-800-729-0256.

 

 

By Corrine Absher, senior digital media major from Kingsport