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University description (as per official university website)
Founded in 1971, Empire State College, State University of New York, is one of the university’s 13 colleges of arts and sciences, accredited by the Middle States Commision on Higher Education. They are uniquely designed to serve adults pursuing associate, bachelor’s and master’s degrees. The college offers affordable, SUNY degrees onsite at 35 locations in New York state and abroad, as well as entirely online.
Empire State College offers degree programs, courses, specialized programs, and ways to pursue your educational goals.
At the undergraduate level, they offer 11 broad areas of study within which you can design a concentration (similar to a major).
AREAS OF STUDY:
* The Arts
* Business, Management and Economics
* Community and Human Services
* Cultural Studies
* Educational Studies
* Historical Studies
* Human Development
* Interdisciplinary Studies
* Labor Studies
* Science, Mathematics and Technology
* Social Theory, Social Structure and Change
The Empire State College Office of Student Financial Services is comprised of the financial aid office and the student accounting office. The financial aid office assists in administering funds from federal, state, institutional and private funding sources primarily on the basis of need. Need is determined by a formula set by the funding source which is then consistently applied to all applications for aid. The student accounting office handles disbursement of funds, TAP certification, third party billing, sponsored programs, Federal Work Study payroll, the Time Payment Plan and the like.
There are three types of aid available at Empire State College:
1) grants/scholarships - money that need not be repaid;
2) loans - money that students borrow which must be repaid with interest;
3) work study - student employment |
