Bachelor's degree may be attainable with fewer hours in Mississippi

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  1. George Brown

    George Brown Active Member

    JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- The Mississippi College Board approved a plan to allow students to take fewer hours to earn a bachelor's degree. The average number of hours required would go from 131 to 124. The board's academic affairs committee recommended the change. The new policy will take effect for all undergraduate students first enrolled in the fall 2007 semester and afterward.

    http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/national/index.ssf?/newsflash/get_story.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?a0410_BC_StateSpotlight&&news&newsflash-national

    Cheers,

    George
     
  2. JoAnnP38

    JoAnnP38 Member

    Don't many or most undergrad programs only require 120 hours?
     
  3. Guest

    Guest Guest

    When I graduated with my B.S. only 120 hours were required. I ended up with 130. So, the 124 is still higher than when I graduated.
     
  4. skoolgurl

    skoolgurl New Member

    Pfeiffer University here in Charlotte, NC only requires 120 hours.

    Maybe this is just something new & exciting for Mississippi... (they must be really strained for excitement!)
     
  5. Guest

    Guest Guest

    Re: Re: Bachelor's degree may be attainable with fewer hours in Mississippi

    For many years Mississippi was ridiculed as the worst state in the nation when it came to academics. I am wondering if the changes made, back and forth, were attempts to improve their educational system.
     
  6. John Bear

    John Bear Senior Member

    The great majority of Bachelor's degrees require between 120 and 124 semester units.

    As for Mississippi being the worst . . . they were for a long time last in dollars spent per student, but I think California may have replaced them at the bottom. And it was Alabama whose legislature actually passed a bill officially defining pi as precisely 3.
     
  7. -kevin-

    -kevin- Resident Redneck

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  8. -kevin-

    -kevin- Resident Redneck

    also; pie aren't square, pie is round, cornbread are square :D
     
  9. uncle janko

    uncle janko member

    Cornbread=uptight mamaliga.
     
  10. John Bear

    John Bear Senior Member

    Oh. April Holiday. Oh.

    Face red. Thanks, Kevin.

    But the Jess Unruh line was real. When the horrid Max Rafferty was defeated in his re-election bid as California's Superintendent of Public Instruction, and took a university job in Alabama, the speaker of the Assembly, Jess Unruh, wished him well and suggested his move would raise the average IQ in both states.
     
  11. Guest

    Guest Guest

    In Mississippi cornbread is both round and square. Have you ever heard of or eaten corn sticks?
     
  12. Guest

    Guest Guest

    Max Rafferty was certainly no S. I. Hayakawa in the intelligence department!

    Big Jesse Unruh, now there's a name I haven't heard of in years. Other than praise for his solid support of RFK in the 1968 race, Unruh was a nasty, obnoxious, foul-mouthed individual.
     

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