Undergraduate Admissions: Accelerated B.A./M.A.

Earn a BA/MA in 5 years with the fifth year tuition-free.

Graduate from Clark with a BA and master's degree in 5 years. Eligible students get the fifth year tuition-FREE.

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Vickie Cox-Lanyon, Assistant Director of Career Services

"A great opportunity for students to add to their academic credentials, but also to enhance their marketable skills."

John Rogan, geography professor and director of the 5th-year program in geographic information sciences

"We accept students of diverse interests and diverse future plans, even if they're being developed in flight."

“I continued in the fifth year for two reasons. First, I wanted to help my application to graduate school by conducting three more publishable experiments. Second, if graduate school did not work out I would have a master's degree in a science and could go to a library science program to become a science librarian. I think that staying at Clark gave me a better idea of what it meant to be a full-time graduate student, which has made the transition to being a full-time PhD student easier.”

— Katie O'Brien '07, MA in biology '08


“I decided early in my undergraduate career that I was going to be applying to Ph.D. programs in history once I finished at Clark, and figured that already having an M.A. would not only make me a better candidate for admission, but would also better prepare me to complete a PhD.  More than anything else, though, it was the fact that it was a 5th-year free that made me pursue it.”

—Jeff Malanson '03, MA in history '04

Accelerated Degree Programs

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