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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Management of Aging Services, B.A.


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Offered by Management of Aging Services , the Management of Aging Services, B.A. prepares students for entry level professional positions in management of aging services. The undergraduate major is built upon UMBC’s liberal arts foundation and provides a strong knowledge base in human aging; understanding of regulatory, policy, and fiscal issues involved in aging service provision; and fundamental management skills (i.e., accounting, human resources, critical thinking, and negotiation).

University Requirements


Completion of Minimum University Requirements for an Undergraduate Baccalaureate Degree .

  • Minimum 120 credits and minimum GPA of 2.0
  • Completion of 45 upper-level credits, residence requirement, Writing Intensive requirement, and General Education requirement

Major Requirements


  • Minimum 39 credits
  • Minimum grade of ‘C’ in all courses applied to the major

Course Requirements


Electives (18 credits)


In consultation with an academic advisor, students complete 18 credits including a minimum of 12 credits from AGNG and a maximum of 6 credits from other approved courses.

Accelerated Bachelor’s/Master’s Programs


Qualified students may apply to an accelerated program, which allows them to share courses between a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree. Students take graduate courses as undergraduate students and later apply those courses to master’s degrees. An undergraduate may apply to participate in an accelerated program even if the desired graduate program is in a department other than the one in which the student is majoring. More information is available from the Accelerated Program page of the Graduate School website.

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