This is a specific type of a major at institutions like UMA and USM, but it is often tacked onto the Academic Plan, the Plan Description, the Degree, and the Diploma Description and the Transcription Description, but in different ways (even at the same institution). There is also a Post-Baccalaureate Admit Type (PBA).


For example, at UMA, the Post-Bacc in Computer Information Systems (with a plan code of CIS-BS-P) has a description of Computer Information Systems-P and a degree of BS, and the phrase Post Baccalaureate is included in both the Diploma Description and Transcript description. But for the Justice Studies post-baccalaureate (plan = JUS-BS-P), the Academic Plan Description is Justice Studies - PB, and in the case of Mental Health & Human Srvcs there is no space between the hyphen and the PB. At USM, their post-baccalaureate certificates do not end with -P as they do at UMA, but begin with the letter P. Although having the phrase Post-Baccalaureate in the Diploma and Transcript descriptions makes it easy to get a list of these programs, the Plan Descriptions make it difficult to merge these majors together when trying to get a count of majors (for example, a line of code is required to combine the Justice Studies majors with Justice Studies PB if one wants to get an accurate count of students majoring in Justice Studies at UMA–what makes this even more difficult is that sometimes it is " - PB" and sometimes "-P" or " - P" and sometimes "-PB"–any SQL code attempting to combine these programs needs to account for all the variations of how Post-Bacc is described in the Plan Description. Depending on the limitations of PeopleSoft, it might make more sense to exclude all variations of PB from the Plan Description entirely (assuming two different academic plans can have the same description) and retain it only in the Diploma and Transcript descriptions (but this also depends on institutions' needs).