C.W. Post: Where Transfer Students Feel Right at Home

Lee Rogers graduates from C.W. Post in January and also starts his new position at CA.

Lee Rogers of Islip Terrace, N.Y. will barely have time to shake the New Year's Eve confetti off his clothes before reporting to work at his new job at CA, the Long Island-based global IT services company.

Two years after transferring to the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, Rogers will complete his bachelor's degree business with a dual major in management information systems and management later this month. Then, on January 2, he'll report to his new position at CA - a job he secured during an internship last summer, arranged by the C.W. Post Office of Professional Experience and Career Planning.

Rogers is among the approximately 1,000 students who transfer to C.W. Post each year. Some transfer from other four-year colleges and universities, attracted by C.W. Post's wide range of degree programs, small classes and personalized attention. Many choose C.W. Post to complete their education after earning an associate degree at a community college.

Transfer students receive special attention at C.W. Post. Up to 96 previously earned credits can be applied to C.W. Post degree programs, and transcript evaluation is quick and easy. Substantial scholarships are available, and most transfer students with good grades qualify automatically. Full-time, professional academic counselors help transfer students plot the best course to completing their degrees. And the office of Professional Experience and Career Planning - known on campus as PEP - helps students launch rewarding careers upon graduating.

"The PEP office sets so much up for the students," said Rogers, an Air Force veteran who earned an associate degree in liberal arts from Suffolk County Community College in 2004 and started at C.W. Post in the fall of 2005. "Their job fairs bring prominent employers from across Long Island right to campus, and they offer a lot of help with things like resume writing and interviewing skills."

C.W. Post offers more than 250 bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree programs in business, education, public service, criminal justice, the health professions and nursing, computer and library science, visual and performing arts and the liberal arts and sciences. C.W. Post degrees have earned endorsement by many of the world's top accrediting agencies, including AACSB International, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business; the American Library Association; the American Psychological Association and many more.

The C.W. Post Campus features outstanding educational, cultural and recreational resources: the three-million-volume B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library; three art galleries; more than 80 clubs and organizations; 15 NCAA sports programs; the Pratt Recreation Center, with a full-line fitness room, indoor running track, competition-size pool and health and wellness programs and Tilles Center for the Performing Arts. The 307-acre campus is renowned for its formal gardens, woodlands, rolling lawns, distinguished academic buildings and historic mansions.

For more information, visit www.liu.edu/transfer.

Posted: December 5, 2007