Undergraduate Global Pathway (1-Semester) - Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies

at Kaplan Group - Pace University - Westchester Campus USA

As an international student, you might need, or benefit from, a pathway course that prepares you for degree study. Sometimes a pathway course is necessary due to differences in national education systems, or to help you improve your academic or language qualifications to the level needed.

Build your future by studying in the USA, with a pathway course through Kaplan. If you’ve completed high school with good grades, but don’t meet the entry requirements, this pathway program will help you progress to a bachelor’s degree at Pace University.

BBA Finance
Your Lubin BBA in Finance is the perfect way to launch your career in one of the most profitable sectors of the economy. You'll earn a respected BBA and be prepared to succeed across a broad spectrum of business and industry—and you'll do it in the heart of New York City's financial district.

Shape Financial Futures

• Explore finance on a global scale
• Connect with executives at major financial institutions
• Apply theory to practice in real business settings

Our Master of Public Administration (MPA) program is designed to train you to acquire strong analytical and administrative skills, and gain the management expertise you will need to succeed in the most rewarding and demanding areas of the national economy: government, healthcare, and nonprofit administration. The program’s mission is to prepare our students to become value-driven public service leaders, managers, and analysts by offering you the knowledge of roles, values, skills, and practices that will help you become competent global professionals capable of ethical, innovative, and creative leadership in public service, government, health care, and nonprofit organizations. The interdisciplinary curriculum enables you to occupy public service management and analyst positions across sectoral boundaries, as the program takes into account career and industry sector flexibility.

Healthcare Management
The Healthcare Management track is ideal for individuals occupying administrative positions in the healthcare industry, who are interested in advancing into leadership positions in organizations that provide public health services as well as in regulatory agencies in the healthcare field. Our Healthcare Management track graduates are employed with state and local health agencies, and non-profit/for-profit healthcare organizations such as hospitals in the NYC metro area including NYC metro area Presbyterian, Mt. Sinai, Lenox Hill, Montefiore etc.

Through our BS in Chemistry, you will be carried far beyond textbook learning to get hands-on experience with modern laboratory instrumentation. With certification by the American Chemical Society, this program provides a unique opportunity to integrate classroom theory with laboratory experience.

Go Beyond The Classroom

• Through prudent selection of elective courses, in consultation with faculty advisors, chemistry majors may choose a specialization in a pre-professional course of study, such as pre-med.
• We offer a unique opportunity to combine classroom theory with practical experience by connecting you with the ability to conduct research alongside faculty, in some cases as early as sophomore year.
• You can expect to conduct work on on-going research projects including biochemical studies of parasitic diseases with a view to developing new antimicrobial agents to combat disease by opportunistic infections of AIDS patients, sexually transmitted diseases and East African sleeping sickness.

The BA in American Studies is an interdisciplinary and individualized degree in the social and cultural analysis of the United States and its borderlands. Through coursework and independent projects, you will learn to exercise the freedom to develop your own areas of expertise and pursue answers to your own questions about American ideals and contradictions.

This self-directed, “do-it-yourself” major equips students with strong analytical and rhetorical skills, the ability to integrate knowledge about diverse fields and subjects, and the capacity for civic and community engagement that signifies leadership in a variety of professional fields not limited to: politics and government, economics, social work, education, journalism, business, psychology and counseling, law, digital and print media, non-profit work, theater, the arts, and activism.

As an international student, you might need, or benefit from, a pathway course that prepares you for degree study. Sometimes a pathway course is necessary due to differences in national education systems, or to help you improve your academic or language qualifications to the level needed.

Build your future by studying in the USA, with a pathway course through Kaplan. If you hold a bachelor’s degree or equivalent, but don’t meet the entry requirements, this pathway program will help you progress to a master’s degree at Pace University.

MS Mental Health Counseling
With our 60-credit master’s in mental health counseling, you’ll be ready to flourish as a licensed practitioner in mental health counseling to provide clinical services to clients at agencies, hospitals, and private practices.

A Growing Job Market

• An integration of the understandings of cognitive-behavioral, existential-humanistic, and developmental counseling approaches
• The opportunity to develop a range of skills that will serve students in the variety of situations they will encounter professionally.
• An emphasis on hands-on skill development, as students become active participants in their education through training groups, role-playing, the observation of video vignettes of counseling sessions, and taping of practice sessions.

Teachers of grades 1–6 arguably have the greatest responsibility: to provide students with a solid foundation that encourages a life of learning. With the bachelor’s of science in childhood education, you can choose from one of the following concentrations: biology, English, history, mathematics, or Spanish (NYC Campus only). This program leads to a bachelor’s degree and the New York State Initial Teaching Certificate in Childhood Education.

Get Ahead Of The Class

• Practice real teaching using our virtual reality classroom simulator. Did you know that Pace is one of the only schools in the region with this technology?
• Our teachers enter the field with experience! From your sophomore year, you’ll participate in immersive fieldwork and student teaching experience that include tutoring and small group instruction.
• Start your pathway to our combined degree program. More than 90% of our students continue on to our 5th year combined degree program in Special Education, Literacy, and TESOL. Get your bachelor’s and master’s degree, and at least two teaching certificates in just five years.
• Get hired! We have strong partnerships with local school districts and our our students are getting hired before they even graduate.

As an international student, you might need, or benefit from, a pathway course that prepares you for degree study. Sometimes a pathway course is necessary due to differences in national education systems, or to help you improve your academic or language qualifications to the level needed.

Build your future by studying in the USA, with a pathway course through Kaplan. If you’ve completed high school with good grades, but don’t meet the entry requirements, this pathway program will help you progress to a bachelor’s degree at Pace University.

BS Biology
A BS in Biology will prepare you to pursue further opportunities in both scientific industries and graduate school programs. It will allow you to contribute your knowledge in today’s advancing scientific fields.

Add Opportunities And Experiences
You will have the opportunity to conduct independent laboratory research in collaboration with highly respected faculty members, often at a level typically reserved for graduate students, utilizing scientific resources one would expect to find at a large research institution. Students who have previously taken advantage of this opportunity have presented the results of their research work at national and international scientific meetings, have authored papers in scientific journals, and have also been the recipients of international fellowships for continued study in the United States and abroad.

As an international student, you might need, or benefit from, a pathway course that prepares you for degree study. Sometimes a pathway course is necessary due to differences in national education systems, or to help you improve your academic or language qualifications to the level needed.

Build your future by studying in the USA, with a pathway course through Kaplan. If you’ve completed high school with good grades, but don’t meet the entry requirements, this pathway program will help you progress to a bachelor’s degree at Pace University.

BA Applied Psychology and Human Relations
Help others find their path. A degree in applied psychology and human relations will allow you to support people in improving their lives while setting you on a satisfying career trajectory in counseling or clinical psychology. You’ll learn to understand human behavior and apply scientific methods and counseling skills to assist others.

Practical Preparation

• Utilize and strengthen your analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Acquire the knowledge you need to excel in either graduate school or career success.
• Learn from experts in areas such as child development, clinical practice, cognitive psychology, counseling, cultural diversity, experimental and applied research, school psychology, social behavior, and women’s issues.

As an international student, you might need, or benefit from, a pathway course that prepares you for degree study. Sometimes a pathway course is necessary due to differences in national education systems, or to help you improve your academic or language qualifications to the level needed.

Build your future by studying in the USA, with a pathway course through Kaplan. If you hold a bachelor’s degree or equivalent, but don’t meet the entry requirements, this pathway program will help you progress to a master’s degree at Pace University.

MS Computer Science
Computer science encompasses the study of computers–hardware, software, computational theory, algorithms, and how humans interact with technology. Above all, it’s about solving problems. With a master’s degree in computer science, you’ll be equipped with sophisticated problem solving skills; and be prepared for a lucrative career in this every-growing sector.

With a BBA in Global Marketing Management from Pace’s Lubin School of Businesses, you can go anywhere for the career you seek—bringing your skills, connections, and savvy to bear on exciting and dynamic challenges in brand management, customer analysis, market research, product planning, and more. Our international focus will expand your knowledge and perspective on global business.