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Earn Your Bachelor's Degree And Your Graduate Degree

Stockton’s accelerated Dual Degree programs…Building Bridges to Success. Less time. Less money.

Earn your bachelor’s degree and your graduate degree in as little as five years!

• Save tuition - a more affordable way to achieve your advanced degree.  
• Save time - earn your Master’s degree or doctorate in less time.
• Achieve more - start your professional career earlier, by a year or more depending on area of study.

Stockton is a leader in its offering of accelerated dual degree programs.  Often you will be able to remain at Stockton for your undergraduate and graduate degrees.  We have also partnered with other colleges and universities for professional and medical degrees that are not available at our residential campus.

Stockton's own 4 + 1 Programs:
Business Administration, BS/MBA (4 + 1) - (under construction)
Computational Science, BS/MSCP (4 + 1)
Criminal Justice, BA/MACJ (4 + 1) 
Environmental Science BS/PSM (4 + 1)
Paralegal Studies, BA or BS/certificate (4 + 1) 

 Early Admission to Stockton's Graduate School:
Occupational Therapy, BA/MSOT or BS/MSOT (early admission)
Physical Therapy, BS/DPT doctorate (early admission)

Stockton's Partner School Programs for
Premedical and Related Studies

Who Can Apply, and When?

• High school seniors
• Transfer students and Stockton students who have just completed their "sophomore" year

What is the Tuition Savings? (or understanding the net present value of a dollar)

• Dual degree students have some of their graduate course work applied backward toward the baccaluareate degree (our typical 4 + 1 program reduces the baccalareate credits to 110 from 128).
• The minimum  "instant savings" for in-state students is about $5,500; for out of state students, the savings is greater.
• This built-in savings increases over time.  Even with modest increases in tuition and fees, the dollar amount of the savings rises every year.  Further, if a traditional undergraduate BA/BS recipient stops their education and waits on a graduate degree, the cost of graduate education increases with each additional year out of school.

 View the 4 + 1 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)