CUNY BA Information Session

This CUNY BA information session details what CUNY BA is and how you can design a unique degree in CUNY with the CUNY BA program.

WHAT IS CUNY BACCALAUREATE (CUNY BA)?
CUNY BA is an Interdisciplinary Studies program that works within the CUNY college system. It has been around for over fifty years! CUNY BA is for students who want to design a bachelor’s degree (Area of Concentration|AOC) that is not already offered in CUNY.

While CUNY BA does guide students with meeting requirements, the program does not tell students what to study. Students should know what areas they want to pursue. As part of the CUNY BA application, students propose what they want to study and what CUNY courses they think are suitable for the bachelor’s degree they are creating (it’s a first draft and can be adjusted later on).

CUNY BA students take courses in the CUNY departments and/or colleges to fulfill the AOC requirements. So, students will have to be enrolled in a CUNY college to be part of the CUNY BA program (that will be the student’s home college). Students will need to be accepted into a CUNY college for the Summer/Fall 2025 semester. Students can start the CUNY college application and the CUNY BA Program application at the same time, as they are different applications that go to separate places. That will be discussed in the information session.

For Example: A student in CUNYBA would not create an Area of Concentration (AOC) that is just "Computer Science" (since Computer Science is already offered as a traditional major in a CUNY college). Instead, they would create a single AOC named "Computer Science and Cyber Security" or study two disciplines separately and have two AOCs such as
AOC 1: Computer Science and AOC 2: Cyber Security and Mathematics. 

The student searches the CUNY catalogs for courses that are suitable for their Area of Concentration (AOC). The courses proposed in the AOC must be from CUNY’s four-year colleges (not community colleges).

You can find more detailed information and the link to the CUNY BA Application HERE: https://cunyba.cuny.edu/prospective-s...
Contact: general@cunyba.cuny.edu