PLS Transfer & Job Info

Political Science at NOVA COURSE INFORMATION: What are the main courses to take at NOVA, what are they about, how do they satisfy NOVA graduation requirements, and how do they transfer to other colleges?

Transfer Virginia is a statewide initiative to make it easier for students to transfer from Virginia's community colleges to Virginia's four-year state colleges, and to make it easy to understand how community colleges transfer to four-year colleges.  Here is the TransferVA website!

Financial Aid.  NOVA has people who can help you understand how to get financial aid and other financial resources.  You should take advantage of all those opportunities.
1) Here is one Financial Aid page that can help you find answers to questions.
2) Here is another Financial Aid page that lists office numbers and names of people who can help you.

Need other financial assistance?  Food?  Emergency?  Still other needs?  Check out NOVA's Financial Stability resources!

Political Science related programs that many NOVA students transfer to:

George Mason University (GMU)

GMU has a number of programs that NOVA's PLS courses can be applied to.  The best resource for finding out how NOVA courses transfer into GMU is GMU's transfer credit matrix, which you can find HERE.

The Schar School of Policy and Government has a number of PLS  related programs.

The GMU Global Affairs program is interdisciplinary (bringing a number of majors together) for students looking for a variety of international careers.  NOVA's SSC 115 course was designed with GMU and is useful for students looking at the GMY Global Affairs program.

The Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution.

What can you do a Political Science degree?

Great question I just asked myself!

Here's an interesting array of jobs that political science graduates might consider.

Here's another list.

Here's information from the  US Bureau of Labor Statistics on Political Scientists.

The truth is that you can do a lot of things with a Political Science degree.  The lists above help describe jobs more specific to politics and political science, but a social science/liberal arts degree shows you are a problem solver and can likely take on any college graduate job that requires a degree of some sort.