Get a WSU Degree in Bremerton With New Olympic College Program

BREMERTON — Qualifying OC students will be guaranteed enrollment in Washington State's online campus program.

Olympic College students can now be guaranteed enrollment in Washington State University's online campus program under a new agreement between the two schools.

OC students who earn their two-year degree and maintain a GPA of 2.5 can now enroll in WSU to earn a four-year degree in nine areas: business administration-entrepreneurship; business administration-international business; business administration-management and operations; business administration-management information systems; criminal justice; human development; humanities; social sciences; and women's studies.

Students can then complete the WSU courses on any computer with Internet access, said Angela Dorsey, OC's distance learning educational adviser.

The new WSU opportunity could eliminate time-consuming commutes for many OC graduates who now attend University of Washington campuses in Tacoma or Seattle to finish four-year degrees.

Students "might have job commitments and family commitments so it's still a tight schedule, but at least they won't be traveling, too," Dorsey said.

WSU's four business distance-learning programs will be especially popular, predicted Dorsey.

"It's one of our biggest programs here. Our business adviser is just inundated all the time," she said.

Dorsey also predicted that OC's current online students would be more likely to use the new WSU program. Online students account for more than 1,400 of OC's 7,400 full- and part-time students.

OC already has four-year-degree program agreements with Western Washington University and Old Dominion University. But WWU doesn't offer the business degrees, and Old Dominion is based on the East Coast and doesn't carry the same name recognition locally as WSU.