Pathways at Baruch: College Options

College Option consists of as many as four courses, depending on how much coursework the student has completed at another institution. For students who started taking classes at Baruch before spring 2015, the requirements for the College Option differed depending on whether the student is pursuing a degree in the Macaulay Honors College, the Weissman School, the Zicklin School, or the Marxe School. For students who started taking classes in spring 2015 or after, there is a single college option for all students except those in the Macaulay Honors College.

The following table explains the College Option (COPT) requirements for students, based on their entering status.

Baruch Freshmen	12 College Option (COPT) Credits
Students transferring from an Associate Degree program to Baruch (including non-CUNY regionally accredited colleges)	Earned Associate Degree: 6 COPT credits Earned more than 30 credits: 9 COPT credits Earned 30 or fewer credits: 12 COPT credits
Students transferring from a CUNY bachelor degree program to Baruch	12 COPT credits are required COPT credits completed at and/or received upon transfer to the previous CUNY senior college will transfer to Baruch with the designation Students who have remaining COPT requirements begin taking courses at the top of the relevant Baruch COPT course list
Students transferring from a non-CUNY bachelor degree program to Baruch	12 COPT credits
Second bachelor degree students with earned bachelor’s degrees from institutions that are accredited and recognized by a U.S. regional accrediting agency and students from international universities with degrees that are equivalent to a baccalaureate degree as determined by CUNY	No COPT credits are required
Students who transfer multiple times and began first in an associate degree program	6, 9, or 12 COPT credits depending on the student’s status when they first transferred from the associate program
Students who transfer multiple times and began first in a baccalaureate degree program	12 COPT credits are required COPT credits completed at and/or received upon transfer to the previous CUNY senior college will transfer to Baruch with the designation Students who have remaining COPT requirements begin taking courses at the top of the relevant Baruch COPT course list

Here is the College Option for all undergraduates, except Macaulay students, who began taking classes at Baruch starting spring 2015:

Course 1	ENG/CMP 2800, or ENG/CMP 2850	Great Works of Literature I, or Great Works of Literature II
Course 2		4000-level CIC capstone course for one of the liberal arts minors of courses 3 and 4 (directly below) This course must be completed at Baruch
Course 3		1st 3000-level liberal arts course toward the same liberal arts minor
Course 4		2nd 3000-level liberal arts course toward the same liberal arts minor

Notes:

The liberal arts minor cannot be within the same area of study as the major. This is also true for students who are required to complete part of the minor for the College Option.
There is no GPA stipulation attached to the College Option courses, but in order to graduate with the liberal arts minor on the final transcript, a student must have a grade point average of at least 2.00 in the three courses that make up his or her liberal arts minor.

Here are links to the four College Options for students who began taking classes at Baruch before spring 2015: