I haven’t really seen a thread that was about Partnered Schools.
I know some schools have a 3-2 year Engineering program where you can get a dual degree, but what other colleges allow you to take classes on other colleges campuses.
Which colleges allow you to get a second degree, in a normal duration of time.
Also are there any colleges besides Barnard where you can get an Ivy school degree (or high ranking school) without applying to that specific Ivy?
Thanks! I cannot wait to see the responses.
barnard is part of Columbia. They are under the same big umbrella. Likewise Columbia has the School of General Studies and the engineering school. All of these degrees are granted by Columbia U. Check out similar situations at UPenn. Harvard has the extension school, which is somewhat separate compared to the ones I just mentioned. Cornell has several different schools you may apply to. In other words there are so many and the variety is so great that you need to look at each school individually.
There are also consortia. There’s the 5-college system in western Massachusetts with Hampshire, Amherst, UMass Amherst, Smith and Mt. Holyoke. There’s the Quaker consortium near Philly with Haverford, Bryn Mawr, Swarthmore and UPennn. Those same schools also have the bi-co and the tri-co, for two and three college agreements. There’s the claremont consortium in souther california. I believe there’s some cooperation among the colleges in Ohio, Oberlin, Denison, etc.
Using Google, I found this list of college associations and consortia–
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:College_and_university_associations_and_consortia_in_the_United_States
@Dustyfeathers Thanks so much! I know Barnard is a section of Columbia but it has a separate application process and a separate acceptance rate, that is why I included it. Most of the Ivies “female” counterparts have been intergrated as a school within them, thus you cannot apply separately. Thanks for the know about the five schools in WM, I’ll look into it!
Ivy female counterparts–you mean the seven sister schools? Only Radcliffe disappeared into Harvard. Mt. H, Smith, Bryn Mawr, Wellesley are all still independent and remain women’s schools. Vassar went coed rather than join with Yale. Barnard was founded later than Columbia but as a parallel institution, from what I can tell.
@Dustyfeathers no I am not referring to the seven sisters. I was reading a Yale newspaper article from 2009 about Yale not merging with Vassar and both then becoming coed, during Yales 40’s anniversary of accepting females. http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2009/10/20/yale-vassar-the-marriage-that-almost-was/ ← Article. If you read it, Harvard merged with Radcliffe, and Brown with Pembroke but Barnard chose to stay a separate entintiy later becoming a part of Columbia.
Some popular ones:
Brown-RISD
Oxy-Caltech
HMC-Caltech
Scripps-HMC
Scripps-Columbia
@thisisfine2020 I know at least for the Brown-RISD you need to get into both schools and then additonally get into the program.
I hear that you weren’t referring to the 7 sisters, but usually people do when they speak of the “female” counterparts to the Ivies. Here is a chart of the traditionally affiliations of the 7-sister women’s colleges and men’s schools.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Sisters_%28colleges%29
The South also has an interesting women’s college tradition.
Currently, Agnes Scott also has an agreement with Emory. Tulane I think has a women’s school within it, Newcomb merged into Tulane. Although not in the South, Rutgers has eaten up its women’s school but you’ll need to check out how it works currently. I believe it’s a college within Rutgers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women’s_colleges_in_the_Southern_United_States
There are also the Sage colleges that include women’s school and men school.
Hobart and William Smith are technically two colleges, one men’s, one women’s, that share the same campus.
Scripps is part of the Claremeont consortium and you can take classes at all of the associated schools.
Mills allows you to take classes at UC Berkeley.
@Dustyfeathers great to know about UC berkeley, do you know any schools that allow you to persue a degree at another school while being at your home school during the same time?
Most colleges and universities that are located close to another one offer some course exchanges if not fully-coordinated programs. Here is one example: http://www.atlantahighered.org/
Things to consider with cross registration agreements:
a. Consider ease or difficulty of commuting between the schools.
b. Consider administrative limits at the school you are enrolled at (e.g. no more than N cross registered courses per term).
c. Consider administrative limits at the other school (e.g. wait until all of that school’s students have picked their courses).
d. Consider differences in academic calendar (e.g. you may have final exams at the other school after your dorm move-out date at the school you are enrolled at).
@ucbalumnus thanks for all the tips, I think in metropolitan cities it would be easier to transmunte back and forth, but maybe I am wrong.
@ScaredofSchool some metropolitan areas are easy to get around in–DC (mainly in and out, but across town can be tricky, and I’m not familiar with exchanges in this area); San Francisco Bay Area along the major transportation lines. There’s good transportation to and from Mills and UC Berkeley, but getting to some of the other exchange colleges may be tricky. I’m not sure about Atlanta (for the Agnes Scott/ Emory and other colleges exchange). I suspect strongly that you’d need a car. Guilford also has a consortium/ strong cooperative set of partnerships, but that’s more rural and you’d need a car. LA you’d need a car, but the Claremont consortium schools, outside of LA, are very close and walking is an option for many. The Quaker consortium offers free and frequent buses between Haverford, Bryn Mawr, and Swarthmore. Bryn Mawr pays students train fare into Philly for UPenn classes. The 5 college exchange in Western Mass has an intricate and free bus system.
As far as pursuing a degree at another school, truthfully I don’t know of any school that allows that. I may be wrong and I hope someone jumps in and provides some examples, but usually the home school allows you to take classes and even sometimes major at another school, but the degree-granting institution remains the home institution. Barnard is part of Columbia, which is why you have the designation: Barnard College, Columbia University. That’s the proper title of the school. Other Columbia schools have similar designations, like Teachers College, Columbia University. Some schools are under Columbia’s umbrella but are so independent that they don’t overtly carry the name, like Union Theological Seminary. Also, Bard College I’m pretty sure started out as Columbia (or for a time was part of CU as the religious seminary) and then separated. I suspect strongly that this complicated set of arrangements is to both preserve the history of the schools, the existences of the schools and their identities as schools as they merged (even if founded in parallel) (or separated!), and because of funding streams that exist in the different schools that can only be used at that school, for specific purposes. Schools with long histories will have endowments with many many different funding pools, which are designated for specific purposes. Also, some alumni would have trouble continuing to give if the school they knew and loved “disappeared” as what happened to Newcomb and Radcliffe.
Wells college allows you to take a few classes at Cornell and I think some of the other Ithaca-area schools have similar cooperative arrangements.
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That’s an understatement! The Claremont schools are all right next too each other. You could probably walk from the furthest end of one school to the other in about 20 minutes.
Cross registration is very easy (all schools share the same registration system), and they all have the same academic calendar.
The 5 college consortium in western mass allows you to take something like half of your classes at a different campus (or more accurately, no more than 2 per semester at any one campus so maybe you can take more than that away form your own if you want to), and you get a degree from your home institution, but there are certificate programs and even majors that span the campuses.
https://www.fivecolleges.edu/academics/node/93040 - see International Relations, Culture, Health and Science, Cognitive Neuroscience, Coastal and Marine Science as examples.
There are various 3-2 and 4-2 programs, though entrance to the second part may not be assured (though for some, like Columbia’s 3-2 program), you just need to meet certain GPA requirements for automatic entrance.
It may be easier to pick up degrees across 2 colleges in the Claremont Consortium. You’d have to explore that.
Tulane and Loyola students can take classes at the other school and they are literally next door to each other. They can also apparently take classes at Xavier (at least Loyola students can) but that’s not as common.
With Tulane and Loyola the meal plans can be used on both campuses as well.
@thisisfine2020, what is the HMC-CalTech link you are talking about? I don’t think they cross register. Nor can a student from one get a degree at the same time as the other (and I think that is what the OP wants – a back door into a more prestigious college than they can be admitted to).
@1or2Musicians can you get a dual degree if you complete enough classes? or is it only that you get your home school degree?