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NECC Engineering Science student Nicole Catanzaro transferred to UMass Lowell after receiving her associate degree at Northern Essex.<\/p><\/div>\n

When Nicole Catanzaro enrolled at Northern Essex Community College, transfer was already on her mind.<\/p>\n

It was important to the 25-year-old Army National Guard veteran that her engineering science degree<\/a> transfer easily into a bachelor\u2019s program at a four-year institution. It did. Today the Haverhill resident is enrolled at UMass Lowell in the bachelor\u2019s degree program in engineering.<\/p>\n

Northern Essex understands the importance of a hassle-free transfer and has cultivated educational partnerships and articulation agreements with other educational institutions to aid in the transfer process.<\/p>\n

NECC holds hundreds of articulation agreements with close to two dozen private institutions, eight Massachusetts state colleges and universities (under the MassTransfer Program<\/a>, which guarantees acceptance into their programs with a qualifying GPA), and three international schools \u2013 Bath Spa University<\/a>, University of West London<\/a>, and most recently Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de Santo Domingo<\/a> in the Dominican Republic. These agreements allow students to earn an NECC associate degree or credits that transfer seamlessly into bachelor\u2019s degree programs.<\/p>\n

“Transferring was extremely important to my plan,\u201d Catanzaro said. \u201cI am trying to fast track my degree as much as possible and NECC helped me to accomplish that,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Preparing students for transfer is a major part of the college\u2019s mission.<\/p>\n

In keeping with that mission, NECC continues to create partnerships and recently signed new agreements to bring bachelor degree completion programs to NECC\u2019s Lawrence Campus. Now, Regis College<\/a> offers a Bachelor of Science in Nursing with a minor in Public Health and a Bachelor of Arts in Public Health.<\/p>\n

These partnerships are in addition to the bachelor degree completion programs offered on the Haverhill Campus: Psychology, Criminal Justice, and Business Administration from UMass Lowell<\/a>; and ASL\/English Interpreting from Framingham State University<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would highly recommend NECC to any student and tell them to take advantage of the transfer agreements. NECC definitely makes it worth it. I am happy to have gone there,” says Catanzaro.<\/p>\n

For more information on transferring opportunities at Northern Essex, visit the website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Top Five Schools NECC
\nStudents Transfer to:
\n1. University of Massachusetts \u2013 Lowell
\n2. Southern New Hampshire University
\n3. Merrimack College
\n4. Salem State University
\n5. University of Massachusetts \u2013 Amherst<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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