College Degrees without attending class
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we've had MBB and FB players do this all the time. one guy spent almost an entire fall semester in Germany
I think it's a good idea. I think it was mostly directed toward working adults who are already well into their career. Think someone who's been laid off from their job and having trouble finding another because they don't have a degree listed on their resume even though they may have 20 years of experience in their field. Or those lacking the time/money to go back to school to finish off a degree. If you demonstrate the necessary knowledge relevant to the degree - why not get credit for it?
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Because...
You can't get a job because you don't have any skills. You don't have any skills because you didn't go to college. You didn't go to college because you don't have any money. You don't have any money because you can't get a job. You can't get a job because.......
That's oversimplifying things quite a bit.
Who is going to hire you with no experience AND no education?
And, if you do land such a job with no exp or ed, and you can do it well with no exp/ed, is a college degree really necessary in the first place? Probably not.
This is a pretty sly move by colleges. If they can convince people with jobs to complete the testing and get a degree, then the college can claim the person as a successful job placement graduate. With the recent pressure being placed on colleges to standardize their placement numbers, this a slick way to improve them.
Many people learn more on the first 6 months on a job than 4 years of college. For many jobs college isnt really needed, except to weed a few people out.
On the surface it sounds like the same tactics diploma mills use. "College credit for life experience?! It's True!"
I applied for an MS program at EIU and asked if credits from my related MS from ISU would transfer. The answer was that all credits for this specific program had to be done at EIU. A friend in their grad dept over there said basically not allowing transfer credits means more tuition money for the school. So, if you take one test and pass it what will you owe? Certainly not $400/credit, right?
I applied for an MS program at EIU and asked if credits from my related MS from ISU would transfer. The answer was that all credits for this specific program had to be done at EIU. A friend in their grad dept over there said basically not allowing transfer credits means more tuition money for the school. So, if you take one test and pass it what will you owe? Certainly not $400/credit, right?
I didn't read the article, but I like the idea of this. I went to ISU and became a graphic designer. Graduated, got a job putting together catalogs and other print material. I saw the web coming and started to learn how to design and code for that. I have a lot of self taught skills that had nothing to do with my college experience. If I ever decided to go back, and get a more focused web degree, it would be nice to now that I could pass out of some of the earlier classes because I'm already quite proficient in the study. As a professor, why would you want someone in your class who already knows the material? They'd be bored and what are you possibly going to teach them to keep the class exciting. Maybe this has nothing to do with my scenario, but I like it from first sight.
I am guessing it will be damn near impossible to "test out" of every class in the curriculum. So you would end up having to take some classes at UW.
