Health Sciences
SUNY Adirondack's Health Sciences pathway prepares students for the college's rigorous Nursing degree program, and other careers in the booming health care industry.
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"The professors in SUNY Adirondack's Nursing program are just outstanding, some of the best I've ever met."
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Healthcare Pathways
SUNY Adirondack is proud to announce Healthcare Pathways, a new program funded by a State University of New York (SUNY) Future of Work Centers grant. This allows SUNY Adirondack to develop career pathways and support individuals pursuing training and education for careers in health care. Support is available for participants in non-credit training or degree programs, including those pursuing careers such as: • certified nurse aide (CNA) • home health aide (HHA) • personal care aide (PCA) • those studying Health Education, Nursing or related fields at SUNY Adirondack
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Additional Health Sciences programs
SUNY Adirondack has everything you need to start a meaningful career in health care. We offer courses that provide the foundation to enter directly into the workforce or to seamlessly transfer to continue your studies in a specialized program. Whether you have experience as an LPN or EMT, had a long career in another field or are straight out of high school, your future in health care starts here.
What our Health Sciences graduates do
- Cardiac nurses
- Chief nursing officers
- Deputy coroners
- Directors of nursing
- Mental health nurses
- Psychiatric nurses
Kim Hedley
- Health Division chair
- Professor of Nursing
Kimberly Comisky
- Director of Healthcare Pathways
Samantha Williams
- Program assistant for Healthcare Pathways
Mary McDermott
- Professor of Nursing
- Simulation coordinator and student advisor
Dana Abbey
- Assistant Professor of Nursing
Health Sciences at our Saratoga campus
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SUNY Adirondack Saratoga is available for students in all degree programs, offering:
- small class sizes, individual attention and one-on-one support
- biology and chemistry labs
- day and evening course programs
- workforce development courses
- health care career courses
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1+1 programs
SUNY Adirondack teams with other SUNY institutions to offer 1+1 programs. SUNY Adirondack offers the first year of a degree program, then students transfer to another college to finish an associate degree.
- Environmental and Resource Conservation 1+1 program
- Forest Tech 1+1 program
- Histotechnician 1+1 program
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Arts, Media & Culture
Arts, Media & Culture provides you with the skills necessary to turn your love of creativity into a successful career.
- Broadcast Media Production
- Culinary and Baking Arts
- Culinary Arts
- Culinary certificate
- & more...
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Business
Start your business career — in accounting, hospitality, agribusiness or as an entrepreneur — at SUNY Adirondack.
- Accounting
- Agricultural Business
- Business Administration
- Entrepreneurship & Business Management certificate
- & more...
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Health Sciences
SUNY Adirondack's Health Sciences pathway prepares students for the college's rigorous Nursing degree program, and other careers in the booming health care industry.
- Nursing
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Humanities and Social Sciences
SUNY Adirondack offers many areas of study in our Liberal Arts and Sciences track. SUNY Adirondack's Humanities and Social Science degree program provides a diverse education. Students choose from literature, philosophy, history, economics, fine arts, theater and psychology.
- Creative Writing
- Criminal Justice: Police Science
- Criminal Justice: Substance Abuse Services
- Liberal Arts and Sciences: Humanities and Social Science — Individual Studies
- & more...
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Math and Science
SUNY Adirondack's Liberal Arts: Math and Science program provides a diverse education. Math and Science students are creative thinkers who generate new ideas.
- Liberal Arts and Sciences: Math and Science
- Liberal Arts and Sciences: Math and Science — Adolescence Education Mathematics concentration
- Liberal Arts and Sciences: Math and Science — Health Education concentration
- Liberal Arts and Sciences: Math and Science — Mathematics concentration
- & more...
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Technology, Engineering and Computer Science
SUNY Adirondack offers several programs within TECS, to ensure you develop the skills you need for a successful career in these diverse fields.
- Computer Science
- Engineering Science
- Information Technology: Computer Networking
- Information Technology: Cybersecurity
- & more...