Four-year teaching degree now offered locally
For the first time is New Hampshire history, a state university is delivering a bachelors program to a community college as Plymouth State University and the NH Community Technical College have partnered together to offer a Bachelor of Science in Childhood Studies and Kindergarten through eighth grade certification.
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