Specialty Advising

The Professor Marvin Milich, Emeritus, Accounting Advising Program is a connection between the AAC and the Accounting & Information Systems Department to offer tailored academic support to accounting students. Established with the generosity of Professor Emeritus Milich, the program provides a range of academic services including onboarding for new accounting students and assistance in course planning for either of the two accounting major concentrations (Business Track & Advanced Track) to ensure that students make informed decisions. This program will equip accounting students with the necessary guidance to excel in the major and in the accounting field.

In conjunction with the Office of Special Services​, the AAC provides supportive and effective academic advising services to ensure that students with disabilities are academically and personally successful on campus.

TRIO/DSSS Handbook of Guidelines to Disability Services

​CUNY BA is the university-wide, individualized degree. It’s an exciting, versatile, rewarding degree route for highly motivated, self-directed students whose academic goals transcend traditional majors. Students create their own degree plans, working directly with faculty mentors and academic advisors.

The university established the CUNY BA degree route in 1971 in response to professors and students who believed that CUNY should allow individual faculty and students to define programs of study.

​The CUNY Early College Initiative (ECI) designs, develops, and supports schools that make earning a college degree more accessible, affordable, and attainable. ECI promotes social and economic mobility by restructuring the educational experience for students who are traditionally underrepresented in higher education.

The ECI at CUNY supports seventeen public schools in New York City that blend a rigorous college-prep curriculum with the opportunity to earn up to two years of college credit while in high school – at no cost to students and their families. These innovative schools make a college education more accessible, affordable and attractive to New York City students by offering programs that blur the lines between middle school, high school and college.

If you are already an Early College Initiative student at Queens College, please make an appointment with your advisor.

Advisor:

Samantha Clement

The Academic Advising Center, Kiely Hall 217

(718) 997-5666
Samantha.Clement@qc.cuny.edu

Freshman Honors Program

Freshman Honors provides a specially designed liberal arts curriculum of interrelated classes that satisfy core requirements and incorporate experiences that integrate the work students do in these classes. Students in Freshman Honors are assigned an honors advisor who is knowledgeable about the college and its programs. Participants also enjoy early registration priority and are guaranteed seats in their honors classes. The Freshman Honors Program creates a community of students who are committed to gaining the best of what Queens College has to offer.

Freshman Honors Program
Honors Hall, Room 16
(718) 997-5502

Transfer Honors Program

The Queens College Transfer Honors Program (THP) offers scholarships and academic support for highly motivated and creative students who wish to complete their bachelor’s degree at a world-class college that challenges them to do their best. THP provides scholarships at three levels: $1,000, half tuition, and full tuition (NY resident tuition rate). THP students join a community of learners in which students enjoy honors classes that are small in size and emphasize discussion and projects over lecture. The program provides dedicated academic advisors who support students in making the transition to QC, identifying mentors, submitting successful applications for internal awards, and preparing for graduate study or career placement. THP enhances the educational experience by helping students identify opportunities for internships, advanced research, study abroad, and other individualized projects. Program participants receive priority admission to competitive majors and honors programs, priority registration for classes, and preferred acceptance into our beautiful residence hall, Summit Apartments. Newly admitted THP students receive peer support, and later become peer mentors.

Transfer Honors Program
Honors Hall, Room 2
(718) 997-5519

Advisor:
Nancy Casey
The Academic Advising Center, Kiely Hall 217
(718) 997-4686​
Ann.Casey@qc.cuny.edu

The Interdisciplinary Major is designed for students who wish to complete a major concentration area in a subject not covered by any single department or program. The interdisciplinary major crafts one area of concentration between two departments, with approximately half of the credit course load taken in each department.

Pre-Engineering​

https://physics.qc.cuny.edu/undergraduate-programs/#preengineering-program

​Queens College does not offer an engineering degree but, like many liberal arts colleges in the United States, it has a collection of courses that are equivalent to most of those taken in the first two years of engineering curricula. In addition, Queens College offers more specialized courses designed primarily for engineering students. By selecting courses properly, QC students can usually transfer into the third or fourth semester of most U.S. engineering programs.
Transfer programs have been worked out with several engineering schools in New York City. After completing two or three years of courses, QC students can transfer to one of these institutions with minimumal difficulty. It is important to begin considering engineering schools and collecting their catalogs early in your career at Queens College. Students interested in transferring to any engineering school should consult its catalog when planning their academic programs at QC. You should also plan to visit any institution you think you might want to transfer to.
Currently, Queens College has a streamlined articulated transfer plan with Columbia University. In this program, the student takes additional liberal arts courses, spending three years at Queens and two at the Columbia engineering school. Upon completing the program, the student receives two degrees: a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Columbia, and a BA in Physics from Queens College. (Due to the considerable overlap between the BA in Applied Physics and pre-engineering requirements, most engineering students opt to major in physics at QC.)

Advisor:
Dr. So Takei
Physics
Science Buiding, B2220
(718) 997-3379
So.Takei@qc.cuny.edu

Pre-Law

Pre-law at Queens College is committed to providing past and present QC students with the information, resources, and support they need to effectively and efficiently prepare for, apply to, and complete law school.

https://www.qc.cuny.edu/academics/pl/

Advisor:
Carl Bonomo
Political Science
Powdermaker Hall, 200Z
(718) 997-5488
Carl.Bonomo@qc.cuny.edu

​​​​​Pre-Med

The Queens College Health Professions Advisory Services Office provides advice to students who plan to apply to professional schools in medicine, dentistry, optometry, podiatry, chiropractic, and veterinary medicine.

To become a practitioner in any health profession, a student usually completes pre-professional studies at a four-year college or university, and then applies for admission to an accredited professional school. The length of professional training varies according to the profession and degree of specialization.

The health careers listed above currently expect students to demonstrate a strong academic foundation, complete a baccalaureate, and show proficiency on a standard test as the minimum prerequisites for admission. Please see Academic Prerequisites.

https://www.qc.cuny.edu/academics/bio/career-preparation/

Director and Advisor:
Valli Cook
Science Buiding, B3338
(718) 997-3470
qc.health.professions@qc.cuny.edu

Peer-To-Peer Mentoring: Project ExCEL’s Peer Mentoring Program strives to increase, encourage, and support the inclusion and educational success of under-represented groups and interested students–black males in particular–through outreach, mentorship, and guidance.

To help freshmen and sophomores make successful academic and social transitions to Queens College, they are matched with academically high achieving upper-class students. Mentors serve as role models and advocates, assisting incoming and continuing students with academic, social, and personal concerns. Mentors establish supportive relationships with mentees by providing appropriate resource information and referrals. Simultaneously, mentors maintain and demonstrate high academic achievement and participation on campus. Both mentors and mentees are provided with support systems based on a one-on-one, interactive relationship.

Academic and Professional Development:​ One of Project ExCEL’s major goals is to increase student success and retention through academic and professional development workshops and events. Emphasis is placed on promoting academic achievement, increasing support through campus relationships, and encouraging individual growth at Queens College. Project ExCEL takes a collaborative approach to bringing together faculty, staff and administrators from offices and programs to foster students’ success. It is our goal that a synergy of resources and campus-wide activities will cultivate achievement that permeates beyond each participant’s college life and into his/her career and future studies.

Programming to enhance the out-of-class experience includes:

• ​Career services, honors and scholarships, and academic skills workshops.

• Grant opportunities to attend local and national academic and professional development forums. These monies can be used to help defray education-related expenses for conferences or summer enrichment programs.

• Applications can be downloaded and submitted to the Academic Advising Center in Kiely Hall, Room 217.

Academic Services: Project ExCEL offers participants one-on-one academic advising sessions throughout their academic careers at Queens College. Participants will have the opportunity to develop strong and informative relationships with trained Academic Advising Center staff members who will help them better manage their academic interests and responsibilities. Students will receive structured advice and tools to help them maneuver through college and plan for their future.

• Relationships with students from similar racial and ethnic backgrounds
• Skills that will support a successful transition to college
• Access to the variety of campus resources and university programs available to QC students
• Personal relationship with an upper-class​ student who is excited about mentoring and willing to assist with the transition

Reverse transfer​ – is a CUNY Opt-In Policy in which an associate’s degree transfer student affirms interest in having their record reviewed and considered to obtain their Associate’s Degree. The Associate Degree Completion is available on the student’s CUNYFirst TO DO LIST. For detailed information and your first step to confirm eligibility click here.

Advisors:

Ivelisse Rosario Natal
Assistant Director of Transfer Advising Services
Kiely Hall 227
718-997-5018
Reversetransfer@qc.cuny.edu

Ivelisse.Rosarionatal@qc.cuny.edu​

Catherine A. Connolly
Associate Director of Transfer Advising Services
Kiely Hall 206
718-997-5459
Catherine.Zonsky@qc.cuny.edu​

Launched in 1966, SEEK is designed to reach qualified high school graduates who might not attend college otherwise. The program starts during the summer, with intensive workshops for matriculating freshmen who did not pass portions of the CUNY Assessment Test. During their first semester, SEEK participants are organized into learning communities—groups who take at least three courses together and develop their own informal support network. Supplemental instruction covers all the first-year classes and some upper-level courses; free tutoring is available. Staff counselors help students apply for financial aid and address personal, social, and career issues.

Queens College is proud to be a partner in the TheDream.US. Scholarships of up to $25,000 are available to DREAMers–undocumented first-time college students or community college graduates–who enroll through CUNY. Based on financial need, scholarship awards will help cover tuition, fees, books, supplies, and transportation costs. ​​​​

​Queens College is dedicated to fostering a sense of community and developing channels of communication among veterans, military personnel, and dependent students, and enhancing their experience on campus. The college welcomes and supports these individuals and recognizes the contributions they make as citizens and as students. We are proud of the level of diversity and academic excellence they bring to our school.