<p>I'm interested in health care management so I am thinking of pursuing dual degrees from the school of nursing and CAS, but I haven't seen a program that offers dual degrees in those two colleges.</p>
<p>I've seen people pursuing dual degrees without going into specific programs (in Penn brochures), but I'm not so sure how it works.</p>
<p>Apparently it's easy to do.
The most common minor at Penn is the Nutrition minor obtained from the school of nursing apparently, so you can imagine how many people from CAS and Wharton and SEAS take classes at the nursing school.
Penn allows you to mix and match your own majors, and usually you can do your own dual majors/degrees (though it may require an extra year or summer to do it)</p>
<p>an extra year should be no problem :)
but I am curious why people are so crazy about coordinated dual degree programs (Huntsman, M&T, LSM) if dual degrees are possible without doing such programs.</p>
<p>prestige. better advising. better networking. select group of students. did i say prestige?</p>
<p>^The best one is you get out of requirements which allow you to actually graduate in 4 years instead of 5.</p>
<p>yeah i think thats important. plus its hard to get accepted to dual degree no?
for what hes saying. you need to apply for the dual degree. </p>
<p>or since can you just take classes in any school just take enough classes in a particular school to fulfill the requirements for a degree from that school without applying for a dual degree? [so you end up with 2 degrees, one from ur main school and the other from the one in which you took classes]</p>
<p>So do you get 2 GPAs? 1 per degree, or do u get one cumulative GPA from both schools ?</p>
<p>I think its cumulative.</p>
<p>To the OP: If it's Health Care Management that you are interested in then how could you do this without the Wharton piece? You couldn't do it with just CAS and Nursing - the management part comes from Wharton.
Another option to the dual degree is to just do a minor in a field. In Nursing, for example, you can pick minors in Health Communication, Nutrition or Health Services Management</p>
<p>Academic</a> Options</p>
<p>Joint degree programs are more "integrated" -- lots of overlap. With a dual you literally have to do a degree per school.</p>
<p>I can see that joint degree programs rock :)</p>
<p>momtn) hmm. so does that mean that I should apply for Wharton and do dual degrees with Nursing? I was thinking of majoring in Health & Societies at CAS and do dual degrees at Nursing. Am I on the wrong track?</p>
<p>if you're interested in healthcare management, do you really want to go through all the clinical / science / in-hospital time required of a nursing student?</p>
<p>tenebrousfire) that sounds a bit tough, but I am willing to attend school for another year if I can do dual degrees. and I think real experience will help me a lot.</p>