Students who graduate from Southeast Community College with a degree in manufacturing engineering technology are now able to transfer and earn a bachelor's degree in the same program at Missouri Western State University in St. Joseph, Mo.

The two schools have reached an agreement to allow the transfer of up to 90 hours from the Nebraska school to the Missouri school.

Dennis Headrick is the vice president for instruction at Southeast. He said that institutions working together to benefit students is what higher education should be about.

Headrick said the arrangement allows students to explore advanced opportunities beyond what his school's associate degree provides them.

Under the agreement, Nebraska transfer students who have achieved a minimum 3.0 grade-point average can get the in-state tuition rate from Missouri Western.