ECO-BA - Economics

Graduate Course Double Counting Policy 

Undergraduate students majoring in Accounting, Business or Economics at the College of Staten Island and satisfying the following criteria may be granted permission to take up to three graduate courses at undergraduate tuition to be counted towards their bachelor’s degree. These graduate courses may be used only to substitute for 400-level elective requirements (ACC, BDA, BUS, ECO, FNC, MGT, MKT) designations. All graduate courses in the Business Management program can be taken as double-counting courses. All graduate courses in the Business Management Program can be taken.  This allows students to earn both the bachelor’s and the master’s degrees in five years. 

Criteria: 

1. Current enrollment in bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business, or Economics at the College of Staten Island and successful completion of three years of study with 90 or more earned credits. 

2. Cumulative GPA 3.3 or above. 

3. Two letters of recommendation, at least one from a full-time College of Staten Island Business School faculty under whom the applicant has studied. 

4. Permissions from the course instructor, the coordinator of the graduate program, and the department chairperson. 

5. Application for admission and conditional acceptance into to the Business Management graduate program. 

Liberal Arts and Sciences Requirement: 

The New York State Department of Education requires that ¾ of the credit hours in a Bachelor of Arts (BA) program be liberal arts and sciences credits.