West Texas A&M University has announced new Embedded Associate Degrees to help students combat indebtedness, set to be implemented for sometime as soon as fall semester of 2024 and then fully in spring 2025.
As stated by WTAMU in a news release, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and Texas A&M University System Regents on Feb. 9 approved a plan that establishes eight new degree programs: associate of arts degrees in liberal arts and humanities and multidisciplinary studies, as well as an associate of science degrees in business, education, health sciences, mathematics, natural sciences and social sciences.
This new degree plan allows students with 60 semester credit hours to earn the embedded associate degree providing that the student has taken 42 hours of core curriculum courses and 18 hours aligned with their major. WTAMU President Walter V. Wendler stated that the new milestone is to help students reduce debt, remain goal oriented and help provide a “stopping point” for some students who need to put their education on hold for some outside reason.