MARYVILLE, Mo. – Northwest Missouri State University is offering bachelor’s degrees in business management, elementary education, and parks and recreation management at its Kansas City Center to serve students who prefer to live in the Kansas City area and obtain a Northwest degree.

The completion programs, which begin this fall, include courses taught by a combination of full-time faculty members and adjunct instructors while providing students with the personal, one-on-one attention Northwest delivers. A marketing program also is being added and will begin in spring 2016.

“We have students in the Kansas City area who want to be Bearcats, but their employment and other commitments sometimes make it difficult for those students to complete their degrees,” said Bev Schenkel, Northwest’s dean of enrollment management. “We’re excited to be able to offer the convenience of these completion programs and serve students at our Northwest-Kansas City Center.”

To enroll, students must have completed at least 24 hours of transferable, college-level coursework and have a 2.00 cumulative college grade-point average. Students who have completed less than 24 hours or coursework will be considered for admission on the basis of freshman admissions requirements