Columbia High School

Through the Columbia High School and Siena College Early Assurance Program, you can secure yourself a seat in Siena’s School of Business before anyone else. When a program provides you with three degrees and a memorable on-campus student experience, it becomes an easy decision.

Introducing the Early Assurance Program, a partnership with Siena College’s School of Business and Columbia High School, where you can:

Earn three degrees — Columbia High School degree, Bachelor of Science in Business, and a Master's in Business Administration from Siena's AACSB accredited program.
Graduate from a school named a “Best College” by The Princeton Review, a “Best Value” by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance and one of MONEY's “100 Top Colleges.”

Gain valuable hands-on experience in our state-of-the-art Hickey Financial Technology Center, Raub Trading Room, and Alonge Accounting Lab.

Choose from 19 concentrations through Siena’s customized business major, making your degree personalized to your goals and interests.
Complete Siena degrees at your pace— including our accelerated program for students looking to complete bachelor's and master's degrees in three or four years.
Live and learn on Siena’s tight-knit campus. You’ll find out what it really means to live like a Saint.

WHILE IN HIGH SCHOOL: START YOUR LIFE AS A SAINT

Your journey to becoming a Siena Saint starts during your sophomore year at Columbia High School.

Complete Siena’s free application online, including a short essay, requesting consideration to be admitted in the Early Assurance Program by December 1 of your sophomore year. (Students may also be considered for application during their junior year).
Earn grades consistently at the B (85 or above) level in the core Regents-level courses of math, English, science, social studies and language (if applicable).
Be on track to complete four years of: English, social studies, math, laboratory sciences (including physics, or an advanced placement science elective). Three years of: a language other than English. One or more: College in the High School business electives (other than Career and Financial Management).

Students must also complete the Career Exploration and Internship Program course at Columbia. Satisfaction of this curriculum will exempt you from submitting standardized test scores to Siena.

Qualified applicants will be invited to participate in an interview workshop and interview with the Siena Admissions staff. Following high school graduation, you must earn a cumulative GPA of at least 3.0 to stay on track for the Siena MBA.

What Saints Say

"The Business Major has allowed me to personalize my education and become unique in the marketing communications and digital marketing concentration has given me the hands-on experience to turn a casual summer job into an internship. My entrepreneurship concentration has challenged me to become more creative and thus has given me the ability to look at business situations differently than my peers."
— Emma McDonald '19

completing your mba: Preparing for the road ahead

The Siena MBA allows you to choose from four unique and specialized concentrations: business analytics, finance, marketing, and strategic management. Each path was created specifically to address workforce demands in regional and national job markets.

Students in this program will enter Siena on track to earn a B.S. in their third year and the Siena MBA in their fourth year.

While not all students will choose the accelerated track, all students will have the chance to take graduate-level courses as they finish their undergraduate degree.