Kansas Board of Regents approves pilot program for reduced-credit bachelor’s degrees

TOPEKA — The Kansas Board of Regents authorized a three-year pilot project enabling leaders of the state’s six public universities to propose special undergraduate degrees requiring as little as three-fourths the course credit hours as a standard 120 credit-hour bachelor’s degree.

University proposals for development of reduced-credit baccalaureate degrees, or RCBDs, would be vetted by the nine-member Board of Regents. Under the regents’ new policy, public universities seeking approval of alternative degrees would be responsible …