About CGS

The College of General Studies offers a two-year, general education core curriculum taught through a system of team instruction. The extensive core curriculum is both interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary and taught solely by full-time Boston University faculty dedicated to teaching as well as scholarship. Considering the depth of the core curriculum and the faculty/student team approach, the College is virtually unique. CGS freshmen are the second-largest incoming class of Boston University’s ten undergraduate schools and colleges. The team approach to academics builds a very special and supportive relationship among the students and faculty. All CGS freshmen are accepted as four-year bachelor’s degree candidates, who, upon completion of the core program and elective courses outside of CGS, continue to their choice of any of the liberal arts and professional degree programs in Boston University’s other nine undergraduate schools and colleges.

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