Burlington County College and Rider University signed a formal agreement on Tuesday, November 15 that will allow students to take classes toward a Rider University bachelor of science in business administration degree at BCC's Mount Laurel Campus. The signing ceremony took place at a luncheon in the Academic Center on BCC's Pemberton campus. In the photograph, Dr. Robert Messina, Jr. (second from left), BCC president and Rider President Mordechai Rozanski sign the agreement as Dr. Timothy Patschke (far left), BCC vice president for academic programs, and Rider's Jamie O'Hara (second from right), vice president for enrollment management, and Angela Walker, assistant dean of the College of Continuing Studies, look on.

This agreement will allow students participating in the existing guaranteed transfer agreement between BCC and Rider to take classes without leaving BCC's campus. The program will kick off in January with two classes, Social and Legal Environment of Business, Tuesdays from 6:30 - 9:30 p.m. and Introduction to Finance, Thursdays from 6:30 - 9:30 p.m. Under the terms of the BCC-Rider agreement, BCC graduates will be guaranteed transfer of all associate degree-related credits into Rider's BSBA Program.