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Are you looking for an educational center that caters to professional development? If so, Briarcliffe College - Bethpage might be exactly what you're looking for. Our goal is to fill the career-oriented needs of our students, and prepare them for business world success. We want to provide you with a professional learning environment that will assist you in your career aspirations. Our many programs include Accounting, Graphic Design, IT, Business Administration, Digital Photography, Networking and Computer Technology programs, and much more.
Briarcliffe College - Bethpage is centrally located to offer you a quality well-rounded education. Located in the heart of Long Island and Nassau County, you're close to Manhattan, miles of shore line, fast highway and transit access - just to name a few.
Our exciting computer technology programs and criminal justice programs are taught by proven professionals that work with you to develop the career skills you need. Class sizes are small, unlike other computer technology and criminal justice schools in New York, so you get the focused education you're looking for, and we utilize current and industry-related equipment and technology.
Your smooth transition into the workforce doesn't just disappear after graduation. Our career-services specialists at Briarcliffe College will assist you in identifying employment options.
Our career-minded graduates should emerge with marketable skills and the combined advantages of business sense, technical skills, and hands-on training necessary for today's in-demand job market.
Briarcliffe College's newest addition is our location in Long Island City, Queens. We are currently offering our Criminal Justice program at this location, making this site a perfect location for students in New York City interested in the field. Students from Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan and even the Bronx can easily access this centrally located facility. Let your admissions representative know about your interest in our Queens location, one of the best criminal justice schools in New York. |
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Briarcliffe College - Bethpage offers professional educational programs in selected fields of business, technology, and graphic design at the diploma, associate, specialized associate, and baccalaureate levels to a diverse body of traditional and non-traditional students.
The College's mission is to promote a professional learning environment that educates and empowers students to initiate, advance, or change their careers and engage in life-long learning. The College strives to fulfill its mission by providing specialized academic programs that coherently integrate theory and contemporary practice, utilize industry-current technologies, refine students' critical thinking, writing, speaking, and numeracy skills, and incorporate liberal arts course offerings.
The College measures the achievement of its mission and institutional effectiveness through the continuous review and development of its current and new curricula, the periodic assessment of student learning outcomes at all levels of study, and the evaluation of career outcomes through an ongoing examination of the College's record of producing graduates with marketable skills and demonstrated competency in mastering the academic curriculum.
Briarcliffe College - Bethpage is committed to the ideal of maximizing human potential and to the pursuit of personal and professional growth for its students, faculty, and staff. As the College plans for the future, it is committed to this important ideal, while anticipating a wider range of academic programs and degree levels in business, technology, design, and related professional fields to a growing student population.
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| Bachelor Degree |
 Accounting
Have the opportunity to gain a strong foundation for a wide range of career options with Briarcliffe's accounting degree program. Students can prepare for real-life careers in accounts payable/receivable, payroll, or as junior accountants. This program is designed to broaden the student's understanding of practical business concepts, while also fulfilling all necessary basic course requirements for those wishing to pursue more advanced accounting degrees.
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Business Administration
Briarcliffe's degree program in Business Administration can prepare you for success in today's business world. Introductory courses are designed to provide you with an overview of general business principles and lay the foundations for more specialized courses in business management and accounting. Elective courses can provide you with the opportunity to focus on the areas of business that you find most interesting.
• Concentration in Information Technology
The BBA concentration in Information Technology combines the study of business and computer systems. This combination can be a highly desirable skill set for you if you aspire to a supervisory position.
• Concentration in Marketing
The BBA concentration in Marketing focuses your education on current marketing principles and technologies. Specialized courses are available in the excited new world of e-commerce.
• Concentration in Management
Our BBA concentration in Management program includes special Management courses that can teach you modern management theory and techniques.
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Graphic Design
Briarcliffe's degree program in graphic design can help broaden the students career choice, help gain new insights, and develop their portfolios as they explore the conceptualization skills and production tools they will need to produce professional-level products in such areas as advertising, editorial & corporate design, information design, multimedia design, creative typography, magazine & book illustration, corporate marketing materials, and web & design.
This exciting program could be your track to success in areas such as: advertising, editorial & corporate design, commercial illustration, multimedia, design studios, typography, magazine & book illustration, corporate marketing, the Internet and e-commerce.
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| Information Technology Applied Computer Programming
The Applied Computer Programming concentration is designed to prepare graduates to enter the work force as IT professionals with a special emphasis in programming, and leading to careers opportunities in programming and software engineering, database development and administration, technical support, and technical writing. The concentration includes courses in LAN and WAN software, hardware, interoperability and design. Core courses are designed to provide students with a foundation in other areas including web server administration, programming database application, and microcomputers systems. Special emphasis is placed on programming and database applications. The programming language sequence includes modern object-oriented programming languages such as Visual Basic, JAVA, and C++.
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| Information Technology Computer Networking and Telecommunications
The Computer Networking and Telecommunications concentration is designed to prepare graduates to enter the workforce as networking or telecommunications professionals with special emphasis in network design and administration, telecommunications management and equipment repair, enterprise systems management, web administration, technical support, and technical writing. It includes a broad range of technologies including telephone and cable, data communications, wireless communications systems, and satellite and internet technologies. Areas covered in coursework include products and services, vendor selection, voice/data integration, network design and administration, network management, and domestic and international telecom policy.
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| Professional Accounting
Gain a strong foundation for a wide range of career opportunities with Briarcliffe's professional accounting degree program. Students can prepare for real-life careers in accounts payable/receivable, payroll, or as junior accountants. This program is designed to broaden the student's understanding of practical business concepts, while also fulfilling all necessary basic course requirements for those wishing to pursue more advanced accounting degrees.
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| Specialized Associate Degree |
| Accounting
Have the opportunity to gain a strong foundation for a wide range of career opportunities with Briarcliffe's new accounting degree program. Students can prepare for real-life careers in accounts payable/receivable, payroll, or as junior accountants. This program is designed to broaden the student's understanding of practical business concepts, while also fulfilling basic course requirements for those wishing to pursue more advanced accounting degrees.
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| Business Administration
Briarcliffe's degree program in business administration can prepare you for a successful entry into the contemporary business world. As a graduate of this program you should be a focused and knowledgeable candidate for employment with business organizations looking for excellence in their new employees.
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| Computer Application Specialist
This program can provide a broad background in computer hardware and software. It offers you courses in word processing, spreadsheets, and databases as well as introductions to programming, computer hardware, and operating systems.
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| Computer Information Systems
The ability to collect, store, retrieve and process information is critical to the administration and decision-making process of modern organizations. Success in the information systems field is enhanced by a strong knowledge of programming languages and operating systems. In this program you will have an opportunity to study a variety of contemporary programming languages as well as computer architecture, system design and analysis, and design access and management of databases.
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Digital Photography
The Digital Photography program is designed to educate students interested in careers that rely upon the commercial application of advanced digital techniques in photographic reproduction and imaging. As technological advancements drive the merging of the fields of graphic design and photography, the curriculum is designed to broaden a student's understanding of commercial photography and better prepare one for meeting the growing demand for expertise in digital imaging.
Degree recipients should be educated to pursue a variety of career paths including, but not limited to, commercial photography, studio management, photographic editing, portrait photography, or new media artist.
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| Graphic Design
New and dynamic advancements in the field of graphic design, photographic imaging, and computer applications have led to the creation of exciting career opportunities in the wide field of visual communications.
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| Networking and Computer Technology
One of the exciting new career paths open to those interested in computer technology is the networking field. Computer networking is a fast-paced, people-oriented field that combines the skills of computer technology and communications. You can study troubleshooting, installation, maintenance, and administration of computer hardware and software.
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| Office Technology
Our degrees in Office Technologies encompass the theory and skills needed to promote the efficient operation of an office. These exciting and promising degrees of study could lead you to a variety of career opportunities. You will be given a choice of three concentrations: Legal Assistant, Medical Administration, and Computer Technology.
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| Associate Degree |
Criminal Justice
The Associate of Science degree in Criminal Justice is designed to provide students with a broad introduction to the field of criminal justice and enable them to pursue an entry-level position in the field of protective services or to pursue more advanced study at the baccalaureate level. The Criminal Justice curriculum offers a balance of theory and application that can prove challenging to students and useful in the field. As with most fields, computers have become an important part of criminal justice practice; therefore, the Briarcliffe Criminal Justice program provides valuable experience using computers.
This criminal justice program can enable students to explore and prepare for career opportunities in policing, private investigation, corrections, probation and parole, private protective security, or as providers of security to firms concerned with incidences of computer crime. The Criminal Justice curriculum has been purposefully designed to provide sufficient breadth and depth, giving students a solid core of courses in the discipline and allowing the exploration of one or more specialty areas that would deliver knowledge appropriate to their Criminal Justice career aspirations. Students in the Criminal Justice program should be aware that additional education may be required for employment in some positions.
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