Design Your Own Major in CUNY With CUNY BA – Info Session

Event details Date: Monday, October 19, 2026 Time: 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM Campus: CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies Type: Student Events About this event WHAT IS CUNY BACCALAUREATE (CUNY BA)? CUNY BA is an Interdisciplinary Studies program that works within the CUNY college system. It has been around for over fifty years ! CUNY BA is for students who want to design a bachelor’s degree ( Area of Concentration|AOC ) that is not already offered in CUNY. While CUNY BA does guide students with requirements, the program does not tell students what to study. Students should know what areas they want to pursue. As part of the CUNY BA application , students propose what they want to study and what CUNY courses they think are suitable for the bachelor’s degree they are creating (it’s a first draft). You can see the CUNY BA Admissions criteria and application HERE . CUNY BA students take courses in the CUNY departments and/or colleges to fulfill the AOC requirements. So, students will have to be enrolled in a CUNY college to be part of CUNY BA program (that will be the student’s home college ). Students will need to be accepted into a CUNY college for the Spring 2027 semester. Students can start the CUNY college application and the CUNY BA Program application at the same time, as they are different applications that go to separate places. That will be discussed in the information session. For Example: A student in CUNYBA would not create an Area of Concentration (AOC) that is just "Computer Science" (since Computer Science is already offered as a traditional major in a CUNY college). Instead, they would create a single AOC named "Computer Science and Cyber Security" or study two disciplines separately and have two AOCs such as AOC 1 : Computer Science and AOC 2 : Cyber Security and Mathematics. The student searches the CUNY catalogs for courses that are suitable for their Area of Concentration (AOC). The courses listed in the AOC must be from CUNY’s four-year colleges (not community colleges). Date: October 19, 2026 Time: 3:00 PM — 4:00 PM College: CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies Address: ONLINE Phone: 2128178220 Admission: Free Website: https://cunyba.cuny.edu/prospective-students/informationsessions/ Official event details: https://events.cuny.edu/cec/design-your-own-major-in-cuny-with-cuny-ba-info-session/