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Pathways provides a set of General Education Requirements that every student must complete to earn a baccalaureate degree.
Required Common Core Flexible Common Core College Option
Four courses for a total of 12 credits
Six courses for a total of 18 credits. Students must complete a minimum of two courses in the Creative Expression category and a minimum of one course in each of the four other categories. No more than two courses with the same four-letter department code may be used to fulfill Flexible Common Core requirements.
College Option requirements depend on how much coursework the student has completed at another institution.
Students who transfer from a CUNY associate to a Brooklyn College bachelor’s degree program.
Students transferring to Brooklyn College from non-CUNY colleges.
Brooklyn College will decide whether any courses taken at the original college fulfill the College Option requirements.
Students pursuing a bachelor’s degree at Brooklyn College (without transferring).
Students who transfer from another CUNY bachelor’s degree program to Brooklyn College.
Students with earned bachelor’s degrees from institutions that are accredited and recognized by a regional accrediting U.S. agency as well as students from international universities with degrees that are equivalent to a baccalaureate degree as determined by Brooklyn College.
6 credits (in the same language)
3 credits (level 2 or higher)
Notwithstanding the rules in the table above:
Students who transfer from a CUNY associate to a Brooklyn
College bachelor’s degree program
6 College Option credits required
Earned More Than 30 Credits:
9 College Option credits required
Earned 30 or Fewer Credits:
12 College Option credits required
Students transferring to Brooklyn College from non-CUNY colleges
Earned More than 30 Credits:
Students pursuing a bachelor’s degree at Brooklyn College
(without transferring)
(specified by Brooklyn College)
Students who transfer from another CUNY bachelor’s degree
program to Brooklyn College
Students with earned bachelor’s degrees from institutions that are accredited and recognized by a regional accrediting U.S. agency as well as students from international universities with degrees that are equivalent to a baccalaureate degree as determined by Brooklyn College
deemed to have automatically fulfilled the College Option.
Beginning in Fall 2025
12 9 6
6 credits in two of the following three categories:
(1) Inter-Cultural Competency (ICC)
(2) Life and Physical Sciences
(3) World Cultures and Global Issues or U.S. in Its Diversity
12-credit College Option students who complete one LOTE course at Level 4 or above can take another course is the same language, or instead may choose to take 9 BC Option credits, 3 from each of the three categories.
9-credit College Option students beginning their language study at Level 1 will complete 6 credits of a LOTE in the same language and only 3 credits from one of the three categories of the BC Option. For a Level 1 LOTE class to count toward the 9-credit College Option, it must be taken at Brooklyn College.
Four courses for a total of 12 credits.
Six courses for a total of 18 credits.
Students must complete a minimum of two courses in the Creative Expression category and a minimum of one course in each of the four other categories. No more than two courses with the same four-letter department code may be used to fulfill Flexible Common Core requirements.
The college option requirement is dependent on whether a student is deemed proficient, or not proficient, in a language other than English.
Choose one course from each of the areas listed below (for a total of 12 credits):
