<p>My 2nd year son was just accepted to the 4 year bachelors program, and he intends to apply to the 5 year bachelors-masters program. There is application info online, including a couple prerequisites for each. He was told that if he is accepted into the joint bachelors-masters program, he would need to surrender his Batten bachelors major. Therefore, he needs to have enough credits in another dept to meet their major requirements.</p>
<p>I don’t know anything about a 3 plus 1 program, and I don’t know how Echols affects these matters.</p>
<p>One of the major benefits of Batten is smaller class sizes. They intend to accept students in cohorts that relate to their model class size.</p>
<p>The application requirements were not burdensome, but he was glad he started to put the materials together a couple months in advance. This year they extended the bachelors application deadline. I was told the program started out small and is intended to grow in enrollment over time.</p>