With an eye toward holding down college costs, here's an idea whose time has come: a three-year college degree.
Hartwick College, a liberal arts school in Oneonta, is offering a broad range of students the opportunity to finish a bachelor's degree in three years, saving a full year of tuition and fees -- which run $42,705 there this year.
Will this idea spread to other colleges? Time will tell.
Hartwick says its program is distinctive, because it won't require online courses or summer school.
Students will take an expanded course load each semester, plus courses during Hartwick's January term. Only a handful of majors are excluded.
College President Margaret Drugovich says students will still have the four-year option.
