12/05/12

Story by Diane Carroll, 913-469-3425

JCCC and Ottawa University approve pathway to bachelor's degrees

Johnson County Community College and Ottawa University signed an agreement Tuesday that will allow JCCC students to earn a bachelor's degree from Ottawa at a reduced cost.

With the signing, JCCC President Terry Calaway and Ottawa President Kevin Eichner created a pathway called OttawaU at JCCC. Ottawa will begin offering classes in January at JCCC that will lead to bachelor degrees in human services, health care management, business administration with a marketing concentration, and public administration with a management concentration.

The bachelor degrees, available only to JCCC students, allow students to take up to 80 credit hours at JCCC and the remaining junior and senior-level classes through Ottawa. Ottawa will be offering scholarships to students who take their classes, which could allow students to save up to 40 percent on the completion of their bachelor's degree.

Ottawa also will be setting up its classes in a way that will allow a student to complete a degree at an accelerated pace.

To learn more, visit JCCC.TransferAdvantage.com or call 913-266-8600.

Additional information is available at http://www.ottawa.edu/About-Us/Communications/News.

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