 New degrees and programs created by the university that year included a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree program (which would be accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education in December 2014) and an entirely online Master's of Science degree in biological science.A&M–Commerce also opened an off-campus instructional site in Rockwall in 2012, which the university announced would be closed in 2017 due largely to low enrollment.The university also began a credit-transfer partnership with Paris Junior College in 2012, and then secured similar partnerships with Tyler Junior College in 2013 and Navarro College as well as Eastfield College in 2015.