Five Year Combined Degrees Bachelor's/Master's Degrees (BA/MS; BS/MS)

Five Year Combined Bachelor's Arts/Master's of Science Degrees may be earned in a five-year course of study by students who:

  • Choose to become Adolescence Education school teachers in the following areas of concentration: English, mathematics, social studies or Spanish.

Five Year Combined Bachelor's of Science/Master's of Science degree may be earned in a five-year course of study by students who:

  • Choose to become teachers in biology or earth science in grades 7 to 12 (Adolescence Education).
  • Choose to become Childhood Education school teachers with an area of concentration in biology, communications, English, history, mathematics, psychology, sociology, Spanish or Interdisciplinary Studies in “Philosophy-English-History” or in “Theology-English-History.”
  • Choose to become PreK-12 teachers in the Special Subjects of Music Education or Visual Arts.

Graduation requirements for all BA/MS and BS/MS degrees are:

  • Follow the Education Division guidelines for minimum grades to progress and graduate for courses taken at the undergraduate- or graduate-level. (Some majors require higher grades and GPAs for overall and/or major and related requirements.)
  • Completion of FST 1000, unless waived for transfer of 30 or more credits from another college.
  • Fulfillment of the General Education requirements for the Bachelor's degrees.
  • Completion of all major, related and special requirements for the program of study.
  • Completion of the minimum of 120 credit hours. Some of these programs may require more.
  • Completion of a minimum residency requirement of 30 credits, including the last 30 credits, completed as a matriculated student at Molloy.
  • Completion of the liberal arts and sciences requirement of 60 credits for Bachelor of Science degrees or 90 credits for Bachelor of Arts degrees.
  • File an online Application for Graduation within the deadlines published in the Academic Calendar.