The accreditation agency that oversees local public higher education institutions will consider reduced credit hour bachelor’s degrees in certain fields to make more graduates available sooner for high demand jobs such as health care and education.
A standard bachelor’s degree is 120 credit hours. The new plans would be 90-100 credit hours.
Stephen L. Pruitt, president of SACSCOC, or the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, said another goal of this new concept is to streamline the process for students to make it more affordable without sacrificing academic rigor…