Graduate-level credits

[thodeptrai]

Hi everyone, I'm finding some short courses like Sophia, Saylor but for graduate-level credits that can transfer to the master program (in business, computer science). Would anyone know any? Thank you so much.

[rachel83az]

Unfortunately, there aren't really any graduate-level ACE credits like that. LawShelf does have a few courses that have been NCCRS-recommended for graduate credit, but it's still uncertain whether any schools will accept them as grad credits or just UL credits.

[Tedium]

I mean, it depends on the school you're trying to transfer them to. Amberton, for instance, won't take the CTE credits from ACTE because they are only worth 1 credit a piece. So, it depends a lot on your target school and their transfer guidelines. 

Here's a re-post I made in an earlier thread. Not sure if Fresno or Grad Credit Courses  have business or CS classes, but it's worth a look. Fresno might. The CTE courses definitely offer Leadership credits:

Tedium

ka3027
VUL requires you have 90 graduate credits beyond the Bachelor's degree. The DHA program gives 36 hours and my Masters from American Public University gave me 36 leaving me 18 sh short. I may just do the VESI courses and just get it finished. I thought maybe you had a suggestion on how I could get these credits on some schools transcript. I think as long as the courses are transcribed as graduate credits with any college they should count towards the graduate credits needed. Please keep me posted if you find out anything else.

Can they be credits in anything?

If so, try these options in addition to VESI:

Fresno Pacific University - Work at your own pace correspondence and online courses.

https://ce.fresno.edu/educator-courses/

Association of Career and Technical Education - 180 1 credit courses they say take 4 hours a piece to complete. Credit offered through University of Central Missouri once completed for additional fee.

CTE Learn courses are endorsed by the University of Central Missouri (UCM), a regionally accredited public university. Course participants have the opportunity to earn undergraduate or graduate credit for their completed CTE Learn courses. Participants earn 1 Semester Credit Hour (SCH) for any block of 4 CTE Learn courses. Award of graduate credits requires proof of a bachelor’s degree and submission of a reflection paper with each application.

https://www.ctelearn.org/credit-courses/

https://www.ucmo.edu/college-of-educatio...cte-learn/

Graduate Credit Courses - self-paced online teacher courses. Credit offered through Humboldt State University for separate fee once completed.

https://www.graduatecreditcourses.com/course-catalog

Those may or may not work better than VESI for you, but each of those three paths will get you graduate credit on an official RA transcript. Just giving you more options to think about.

[Kab]

If I understand it well the CTE courses (every 4 courses) counts as a 1 Credits and the credit is awarded by a RA University? is that correct?

Because for 298$ you can get a subscription key for a year and if they have no extra cost sounds nice for UL credits or even Graduate level. 
Can somebody confirm, please?

[brainfroze]

If I understand it well the CTE courses (every 4 courses) counts as a 1 Credits and the credit is awarded by a RA University? is that correct?

Because for 298$ you can get a subscription key for a year and if they have no extra cost sounds nice for UL credits or even Graduate level. 
Can somebody confirm, please?

It also costs $125 per credit hour: https://www.ucmo.edu/college-of-educatio...cte-learn/

[Tedium]

If I understand it well the CTE courses (every 4 courses) counts as a 1 Credits and the credit is awarded by a RA University? is that correct?

Because for 298$ you can get a subscription key for a year and if they have no extra cost sounds nice for UL credits or even Graduate level. 
Can somebody confirm, please?

From my understanding, you are almost correct in your thinking. There is an additional fee from UCM of $125 per credit to put it on a transcript. From the UCM site I linked above:

UCM will recognize completion of CTE Learn courses through the submission of the CTE Learn course completion certificates for each of the four CTE Learn courses.

Each block of four CTE Learn courses can earn you one semester credit hour at UCM at the undergraduate level.

For a graduate credit hour, we require a graduate-level term paper to be written and submitted to earn graduate university credit in addition to the course completion certificates. A rubric for that paper and a course syllabus are available for download.

So, completion of four courses+a reflection term paper=graduate credit.

Completion of four courses without a reflection term paper=undergraduate credit. Not sure if that LL or UL.

You have to go through the enrollment process to get the credit. You can apply as Non-degree seeking if you just want the credit. No application fees or transcripts necessary, but you have to apply for each block of four courses.

You can get a year subscription for $298, like you said, but UCM will charge you a fee for any credits you apply to your transcript. The fee at UCM is $125 per credit.

Example: 30 RA credits CTE would be: $298+$3,750($125 per credit x30)=$4,048 total.

Not terribly bad for undergraduate, but amazing for graduate credit. I’m putting some serious consideration into taking this path when I graduate from COSC.

[Courcelles]

The UCM syllabus says you can only repeat the course number 6 times. I wouldn’t count on getting more than six credits out of this approach.

[Tedium]

Do you mean the catalog? Can you share a link?

[Courcelles]

Do you mean the catalog? Can you share a link?

No, the syllabus linked right from the UCM page. https://www.ucmo.edu/college-of-educatio...llabus.pdf

“May repeat for a maximum of 6 semester hours.”

[freeloader]

I emailed Michelle Conrad, the CTE & CSPA Graduate Coordinator, as I am considering pursing a master’s degree in CTE with CENTRAL Missouri and would be using CTE Learn courses as part of the degree plan. According to her (and she should know), 15 hours of the CTE Learn-based courses can be applied to their master’s degree, so, they clearly are willing to transcript more than 6 credits for these courses.