BARD CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

3+2 Program

Website: http://www.bard.edu/cep/program/3+2/

Updated August 23, 2017

The Bard Center for Environmental Policy (CEP) offers qualified Bard students the option to earn, in an accelerated period of time, a BA from Bard and either an MS in environmental policy or an MS in climate science and policy from Bard CEP. This dual-degree program is for highly motivated students who have a clear vision of their academic and career goals in relation to environmental science and policy. 

Bard College undergraduate students apply in their junior year and proceed directly from three years of undergraduate study to a two-year master’s degree program at Bard CEP. To qualify, Bard students must have:

• earned 96 undergraduate credits, 64 of which must be earned at the undergraduate college in Annandale before beginning the fourth year of study (students who have studied abroad will be considered on a case-by-case basis);

• met all undergraduate distribution requirements;

• successfully moderated into a program of study and met all program requirements (except Senior Project) or else have written approval from the undergraduate adviser and the relevant program directors to substitute requirements with course work completed in the fourth and fifth years of study;

• earned a cumulative GPA of 3.3 or higher.

• Permission from the dean of studies is also required. 

Please see the CEP website for more details http://www.bard.edu/cep/program/3+2/ .