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Career Pathways

There are many ways to advance your future either with a degree that puts you straight into the workforce or transfer to a bachelor's degree program. Certificates and microcredentials can round out your resume to increase your earning potential.

Pathways

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1+1 programs

SUNY Adirondack teams with other SUNY institutions to offer 1+1 programs. SUNY Adirondack offers the first year of a degree program, then students transfer to another college to finish an associate degree.

Associated Programs
  • Environmental and Resource Conservation 1+1 program
  • Forest Tech 1+1 program
  • Histotechnician 1+1 program
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Arts, Media & Culture

Arts, Media & Culture provides you with the skills necessary to turn your love of creativity into a successful career.

Associated Programs
  • Broadcast Media Production
  • Culinary and Baking Arts
  • Culinary Arts
  • Culinary certificate
  • & more...
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Business

Start your business career — in accounting, hospitality, agribusiness or as an entrepreneur — at SUNY Adirondack.

Associated Programs
  • Accounting
  • Agricultural Business
  • Business Administration
  • Entrepreneurship & Business Management certificate
  • & more...
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Health Sciences

SUNY Adirondack's Health Sciences pathway prepares students for the college's rigorous Nursing degree program, and other careers in the booming health care industry.

Associated Programs
  • Nursing
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Humanities and Social Sciences

SUNY Adirondack offers many areas of study in our Liberal Arts and Sciences track. SUNY Adirondack's Humanities and Social Science degree program provides a diverse education. Students choose from literature, philosophy, history, economics, fine arts, theater and psychology.

Associated Programs
  • Creative Writing
  • Criminal Justice: Police Science
  • Criminal Justice: Substance Abuse Services
  • Liberal Arts and Sciences: Humanities and Social Science — Individual Studies
  • & more...
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Math and Science

SUNY Adirondack's Liberal Arts: Math and Science program provides a diverse education. Math and Science students are creative thinkers who generate new ideas.

Associated Programs
  • Liberal Arts and Sciences: Math and Science
  • Liberal Arts and Sciences: Math and Science — Adolescence Education Mathematics concentration
  • Liberal Arts and Sciences: Math and Science — Health Education concentration
  • Liberal Arts and Sciences: Math and Science — Mathematics concentration
  • & more...
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Technology, Engineering and Computer Science

SUNY Adirondack offers several programs within TECS, to ensure you develop the skills you need for a successful career in these diverse fields.

Associated Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Engineering Science
  • Information Technology: Computer Networking
  • Information Technology: Cybersecurity
  • & more...