Expand Your Possibilities. Complete Your Bachelor’s Degree.

Earn your bachelor’s degree at Chestnut Hill College! Our Accelerated Adult Degree Program combines flexibility and support to make degree completion possible for busy adults like you.
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Discover The Degree Completion Program For You

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Learn to draw upon your liberal arts and technical business training to deal with business problems in a socially sensitive, ethical manner with your B.S. in Business Management. You’ll prepare to properly analyze both qualitative and quantitative variables in decision-making as required of business professionals. This program will equip you with the skills necessary to successfully pursue your career, as well as graduate study, in business and/or management.

3 concentrations offered:
  • Healthcare Management
  • Human Resources Management
  • Organizational Dynamics
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Gain the vital communication and information technology skills necessary to compete in the business marketplace with a B.S. in Business Communications. The curriculum emphasizes fundamental marketing procedures, functions of management, applied business and communications technology, and extensive writing and presentation skills.
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Learn how to communicate effectively with children, parents, and the community with a B.S. in Childcare Management. You’ll become equipped with the administrative skills necessary for daycare facility management. Prepare to work with children and to create and maintain a healthy, safe learning environment for them.
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Make a difference in your community with a B.S. in Criminal Justice. This program provides knowledge about the criminal justice system and its impact. You’ll learn how to work as a positive contributor to society, and how to meet the challenges of a diverse, global community. This program will prepare you for job opportunities in the criminal justice field, for graduate school, or for law school.
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Impact the next generation with a B.S. in Early Childhood Studies, which combines a liberal arts background with specific training in educational and child psychology, curriculum methods and materials, and extensive fieldwork. This program has an online option and is intended for those working with young children who are not seeking teacher certification in the state of Pennsylvania.
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In addition to the training listed in the early education studies program above, the Montessori early childhood credential offers courses on the philosophy and educational theory of Dr. Maria Montessori and the application of her method. These two programs prepare students for the internship in an early childhood or infant/toddler Montessori classroom and for fulfilling careers in the field.
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Pursue a more fulfilling career with a B.S. in Human Services. This program has an online option. You’ll prepare for work in agencies and organizations, such as schools, social service agencies, mental health centers, courts, crisis counseling centers, residential treatment facilities and hospitals. In these settings, human service professionals provide a broad range of services to individuals, families and groups including advocacy, case management and networking. We also offer an 18-credit online human services certificate.
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Explore your interests as you delve into a variety of courses in the B.A. in Liberal Studies program. You’ll learn critical thinking skills, constructive communication strategies, and how to synthesize arguments — which are all skills directly applicable to every professional setting.

 

Choose to specialize in a specific concentration:

  • English
  • History
  • Political Science
  • Religious Studies

High-Quality Adult Degree Completion Program

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Accelerated Format

For faster degree completion, the calendar year is divided into six, 8-week sessions. You may enter any degree program at the beginning of any session.
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Program Flexibility

Courses are offered on campus, online, and in a hybrid format (depending upon program). Classes are conveniently offered in the evenings (6–9pm) on Monday-Thursday to fit your busy schedule. The best part is that your weekends remain free!

Credit Opportunities

You can start a program without previous college experience or transfer up to 75 credits. We also offer alternative options to earn credit through previous work experience, volunteer experience, or CLEP exams.

Transfer up to 75 Credits

and earn credit for real-world experiences

Accelerated Format

consisting of six, 8-week sessions with courses in the evenings Monday–Thursday (weekends off!)

Financial Aid Opportunities

including grants and scholarships

9 degree programs

to choose from and online degree options available

At CHC, Going Back Means Moving Forward

Chestnut Hill College

Accelerated Adult Degree Program
9601 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19118
Email: AdultDegree@chc.edu
Phone: 215.248.7001

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