{"id":321,"date":"2026-05-13T11:30:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/californiamovingreport.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/cal-state-may-soon-offer-degrees-that-take-just-3-years-to-finish-work-experience-counts-too-2\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T11:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:30:26","slug":"cal-state-may-soon-offer-degrees-that-take-just-3-years-to-finish-work-experience-counts-too-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/californiamovingreport.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/cal-state-may-soon-offer-degrees-that-take-just-3-years-to-finish-work-experience-counts-too-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cal State may soon offer degrees that take just 3 years to finish. 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Then the worst happened<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bachelor of Education, for aspiring teachers who want a bachelor\u2019s focusing on teaching specifically\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Bachelor of Professional Studies, which targets employees pursuing managerial positions that will give them course credit for skills learned at past jobs\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Bachelor of Applied Studies will be geared toward students with vocational or technical training, such as in car maintenance or home heating repair<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The new degree types don\u2019t replace the existing four-year bachelor\u2019s in the arts and sciences but will instead widen the offerings campuses can provide \u2014 if they want to. There\u2019s no mandate for the campuses to create any.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nor do the new degrees have to be as short as three years. They may require any number of units that take between three and four years to finish. The policy sets the minimum units for these degree types at 90 units \u2014 which typically take three years for students to complete. A four-year degree generally requires 120 units.<\/p>\n<p>The changes are meant to \u201creduce the time required for students to earn a degree\u201d and to \u201coffer more immediate access to economic and social mobility,\u201d said Nathan Evans during last week\u2019s trustees meeting. He is Cal State\u2019s associate vice chancellor for academic affairs and helped to write the policy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The new offerings are also designed to compete with for-profit and online colleges that offer quicker degree programs but are generally far pricier than what Cal State charges.<\/p>\n<p>Students transferring from community colleges may choose these degrees to earn a bachelor\u2019s in one year, rather than two, said Evans in an interview. Adults with on-the-job experience and busy schedules may opt for these so that they convert some of their workforce experience into completed degree units and finish degrees faster, saving money.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Battling enrollment declines<\/h2>\n<p>Today, some Cal State campuses are experiencing enrollment growth but others are battling steep student losses, prompting soul-searching about how to bring in more learners and plug the financial holes from lost tuition revenue. Ten campuses have seen double-digit-percent enrollment declines between 2020 and 2025, including East Bay and Dominguez Hills.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Evans said the new degrees could appeal to workers in fields undergoing strain, such as set workers in Hollywood. Campuses that adopt these shorter degrees may pair them with master\u2019s programs in professional disciplines as part of accelerated pathways, Evans said.<\/p>\n<p>Chancellor\u2019s office officials indicated that a handful of universities in other states now offer these quicker degree types, such as Cornell University, the University of Kansas and New Mexico State University. Meanwhile, the University of California has promoted traditional four-year bachelor\u2019s degrees that students can earn in three years, such as economics and math at UC Santa Cruz. Students there generally need to take summer courses to fit all their courses into the tighter window.<\/p>\n<p>Fall is the earliest that faculty at Cal State\u2019s 22 campuses will begin working on developing these new degrees. The first to debut may come as soon as fall 2027, but more likely in 2028, Evans said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>California is home to more than 6 million working-age adults with a high school diploma Half of them earned some college credit.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bachelor\u2019s degree recipients in California typically earn an annual salary of $96,000, according to 2024 data. It\u2019s $65,000 for those with associate degrees and $48,000 for workers with only a high school diploma. Student loans may eat into those wages, but most Cal State undergraduates earn their bachelor\u2019swithout debt.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/californiamovingreport.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/california-voters-are-about-to-elect-a-new-state-superintendent-its-barely-on-the-radar-2\/\">California voters are about to elect a new state superintendent. It\u2019s barely on the radar<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another change allows Cal State students to earn a degree without having to accumulate a minimum number of units at any one campus. In the past students had to earn at least 30 units at the Cal State campus awarding them a degree. That campus-level requirement is now gone, which could make it easier for some students to earn a bachelor\u2019s, such as those who previously dropped out of one Cal State, moved, and are returning to a different Cal State campus to finish their degree.<\/p>\n<h2>Some faculty express concerns<\/h2>\n<p>The systemwide academic senate, a key player in shaping academic programming, supports\u00a0 the shorter degree plan broadly but objects to specific portions.  before the board\u2019s vote that any degree needing fewer than 120 units shouldn\u2019t be called a bachelor\u2019s but some other degree name. They also wrote that these new degree programs should expire after 10 years, unless an evaluation indicates the degrees requiring fewer units have merit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA student who worked hard to earn a degree with 120 units would be lumped in with a student who merely took 90 units, so the traditional BAs and BSs would be devalued. Frankly, students might feel insulted that their hard-earned (in terms of money and in terms of academic work) BAs and BSs are treated the same as degrees with fewer units,\u201d the letter states.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The letter says almost all of the advocacy for the new bachelor\u2019s program comes from College-in-3, an organization advocating for three-year degrees with about 60 campuses as members.\u00a0However, there are thousands of colleges in the country that haven\u2019t joined the group, the letter says.<\/p>\n<p>The senate chairperson, Elizabeth \u201cBetsy\u201d A. Boyd, told trustees that the senate wanted to pause the approval of the new degrees until at least September. The trustees denied that request.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Evans said in an interview and to the trustees that colleges in Europe award bachelor\u2019s in three years. But the academic senate\u2019s letter says that\u2019s only because European high schools are more rigorous than U.S. high schools and can in turn offer fewer courses once those students enter college.<\/p>\n<p>But one trustee was sympathetic to the academic senate\u2019s worries. Jack McGrory, who often faults the Cal State system for requiring too many general education courses, said \u201cwe\u2019re diluting the quality and the importance of a BA degree by lowering the unit count,\u201d with these new degree types.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cal State officials stressed these new degrees won\u2019t replace existing four-year bachelor\u2019s degrees and the system is not pivoting to fewer units for all its bachelor\u2019s offerings.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Other trustees supported the measure but said the systemwide chancellor\u2019s office isn\u2019t doing enough to consult the faculty. \u201cI\u2019m not comfortable approving things that they don\u2019t feel they\u2019ve had enough consultation with,\u201d said Trustee Larry Adamson.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One possible barrier to creating expedited degrees is approval from the regional accreditor of academic offerings at California\u2019s colleges and universities. But Evans said that the accreditor, the quasi-federal Western Association of Schools and Colleges, is on board with these degrees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWASC has already approved five or six of these degrees for their universities that are part of their accrediting region, and they\u2019re expecting many more to come,\u201d Evans said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>He noted to the trustees that the regional accreditor recommended slightly different names for the shorter bachelor\u2019s degrees. Cal State officials heeded that advice \u2014 which is why the new degrees have \u201capplied\u201d, \u201ceducation\u201d or \u201cprofessional\u201d in their titles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not mandating anything. It\u2019s really an opportunity to experiment and be more flexible,\u201d said Julia Lopez, a trustee, during the board meeting. For campuses without enrollment struggles, these shorter bachelor\u2019s degrees may not be what they want to do. But for campuses on a state watch list for low enrollment, a faster degree may attract the students they desperately seek.<\/p>\n<p>At campuses with many part-time or working-adult students or with a goal of attracting them, \u201cthis may be a real opportunity to offer growth where there hadn\u2019t been growth before,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/californiamovingreport.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/a-new-homelessness-strategy-is-sweeping-california-4\/\">A new homelessness strategy is sweeping California<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><br \/>\n<!-- .entry-footer --><br \/>\n<!-- .author-bio --><br \/>\n<\/article>\n<p><!-- #post-${ID} -->\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students could earn a bachelor\u2019s degree faster in select fields. 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