Study: Accelerated B.A./Master's Degree Program

Earn a BA/Master's Degree in 5 years with the fifth year tuition-free.

You are invited to participate in Clark’s nationally-recognized Accelerated B.A./Master's Degree Program. This unique program allows particularly ambitious Clarkies to earn both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in five years with the fifth year TUITION-FREE. This savings of more than $40,000 has been lauded as an innovative way for you to earn two degrees without being burdened by huge debt. Learn how to qualify.

Our accelerated degree programs

Biology
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Chemistry
Professional Communications (M.S.P.C.)
Community Development & Planning
Education (M.A.T.)		 Environmental Science & Policy
Finance (M.S.F.)
History
Geographic Information Science
International Development & Social Change
Management (M.B.A.)
Physics
Public Administration (M.P.A.)

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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."


 Max Miller '10, History major; fifth-year M.A.T. in education

"You have a full year of teaching under your belt before you’re even hired to be a teacher..."
John Rogan, geography professor and director of the fifth-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 Ph.D. student easier."

— Katie O'Brien '07, M.A. 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 fifth-year free that made me pursue it."

—Jeff Malanson '03, M.A. in history '04