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Streamlined Path to Excellence in Public Administration
Accelerate your journey toward success with Nova Southeastern University's Dual Admission program in Public Administration. In just five and a half years, you can secure both your bachelor's and a prestigious master's degree, equipping you with the expertise and networks essential for excelling in the realm of public administration. Seize this opportunity to fast-track your future to the top of the corporate ladder.
Program Overview
A Dual Admission program is available to qualified freshman and transfer students, allowing them to complete a combined bachelor's degree and master's degree in a total of a five-and-a-half-year period (4+1.5).
After successfully completing a four-year undergraduate degree at NSU, students are eligible to immediately start their master's degree. Students can complete their master's degree in 18 months.
Classes are offered in either online or weekend formats. Master's courses are taught by faculty with real-world experience and doctoral degrees in their fields of study.
Eligibility
To be considered for dual admission and fill your reserved seat in graduate or professional school, there are some requirements you must meet. Undergraduate Admission Requirements are for first-time in college students applying to earn a bachelor's degree. Graduate Admission Requirements are the standards students need to maintain, while earning their undergraduate degree, to remain eligible for the graduate or professional program.
Undergraduate Admission Requirements
Graduate Admission Requirements
Keep Your Dual Admission Status While You Earn Your Bachelor’s
Dual Admission reserves your seat in NSU’s Master of Public Administration program, but you must still complete a graduate application once you finish your bachelor’s degree.
Keep in mind that these are the basic requirements, and final determination of admission into the professional program is at the discretion of the H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business & Entrepreneurship.
Additional Requirements
College credits that were earned through advanced high school programs such as AP,
IB or college academy—or in summer coursework following high school graduation, prior
to attending NSU—may transfer to NSU.
Students who enter NSU with earned college credits through advanced high school programs
may be able to complete their degree and program requirements earlier than scheduled
and request to enter their graduate professional programs earlier as well.
Please contact your admissions representative for more details regarding high school transfer credits.
Ready for the Next Step?
Here’s how to apply.
Dual Admission is just one of NSU’s distinctive Premier Programs. These programs are designed to help highly motivated students accelerate their success.
You can apply for just about any combination of the following Premier Programs:
- Dual Admission
- The Fischler Academy of Education
- Huizenga Business Innovation Academy
- Hochberg-Miniaci Razor’s Edge Scholars
You may apply for and be admitted into only one Dual Admission program for your first semester. Each program is unique and has its own eligibility requirements.
Apply for Undergraduate Admission
You can use the Shark Select Application or the Common App to apply to Nova Southeastern University.
Submit a Supplemental Application
Complete the supplemental Premier Programs application for fall entry.
Interview During Shark Preview
If you’re admitted to NSU and submit the supplemental application, you will be invited via email to choose which Shark Preview works for your schedule.
