Milligan has partnered with Northeast State Community College to allow Northeast State students that are pursuing an engineering degree to co-enroll at both Northeast and Milligan. This will allow students to take both pre-engineering and engineering classes at Milligan while still enrolled at Northeast State.
Milligan partnered with Northeast State in 2009 for an articulation agreement, meaning that any student that graduates from Northeast State and gets accepted to Milligan will have their degree transfer in full.
Having the ability to transfer the degree is important to students seeking a bachelor’s degree. Sometimes, schools will not fully transfer over classes and force students to retake classes they already paid for at a different school. With an articulation agreement like the one between Northeast State and Milligan College, this problem is erased.
Since the engineering program was only added to Milligan last year, Milligan and Northeast State had to update their articulation agreement so that engineering students would be included. This is a unique agreement, as it is the only program of its kind in a two-hour radius of the Tri-Cities.
This agreement is also quite helpful now that Tennessee Promise, a program that allows Tennessee residents to attend a community college for free for two years, is in full swing. Students can attend Northeast State tuition-free for two years while dual enrolling at Milligan and then transfer over and know that their degree will be accepted in full.
Milligan offers both degrees in electrical or mechanical engineering. It is directed by Dr. Greg Harrell, who is a lead technical advisor for the United Nations and the U.S. Department of Energy.