UMPI BABA Project Management with Zero Starting Credits

[bjcheung77]

Thank you! Is there any resource that lists accepted certs? I don't have any right now.

Hmm, I think you may have missed it, the entire plans are on the link I had on post #4...

[ChickenEnjoyer]

Thank you! Is there any resource that lists accepted certs? I don't have any right now.

Hmm, I think you may have missed it, the entire plans are on the link I had on post #4...

Ah got it, yea I saw that, I just misunderstood. Could you have a look at my degree plan sheet in the last post? Seems someone merged my new thread into this one.

[bjcheung77]

Yeah, I merged the two threads, that's why you see my post was last... Anyways, I did skim through your spreadsheet, seems fine for now. I would get all of them done first and transfer to UMPI, you'll know what would be remaining and do the last 30 though them.

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Update: follow link I had in post #4 to review what's required in the general education area, you're missing 1 course, not 1 credit, you calculated the Bio Lab as a 3 credit course, it needs to be updated. Other than that, you can look at the Sophia.org equivalency on the WIKI and take any for your remaining general eds and electives you're looking at. If you have the energy, money, time, doing more cheapies or freebies on the Coursera and others on the WIKI would contribute to the trifecta - certs, degree, experience.

[ChickenEnjoyer]

Yeah, I merged the two threads, that's why you see my post was last... Anyways, I did skim through your spreadsheet, seems fine for now.  I would get all of them done first and transfer to UMPI, you'll know what would be remaining and do the last 30 though them.

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Update: follow link I had in post #4 to review what's required in the general education area, you're missing 1 course, not 1 credit, you calculated the Bio Lab as a 3 credit course, it needs to be updated.  Other than that, you can look at the Sophia.org equivalency on the WIKI and take any for your remaining general eds and electives you're looking at.  If you have the energy, money, time, doing more cheapies or freebies on the Coursera and others on the WIKI would contribute to the trifecta - certs, degree, experience.

Ah I got it now! Well I am really happy to have compiled that plan so quickly, without you it wouldn't have been possible, so thank you tons!!!
Have a great week!

[ChickenEnjoyer]

Yeah, I merged the two threads, that's why you see my post was last... Anyways, I did skim through your spreadsheet, seems fine for now.  I would get all of them done first and transfer to UMPI, you'll know what would be remaining and do the last 30 though them.

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Update: follow link I had in post #4 to review what's required in the general education area, you're missing 1 course, not 1 credit, you calculated the Bio Lab as a 3 credit course, it needs to be updated.  Other than that, you can look at the Sophia.org equivalency on the WIKI and take any for your remaining general eds and electives you're looking at.  If you have the energy, money, time, doing more cheapies or freebies on the Coursera and others on the WIKI would contribute to the trifecta - certs, degree, experience.

Updated my plan now: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1...sp=sharing

Four remaining questions:

1. Since the Yourpace site says to choose two courses out of BUS 245, BUS 359 and BUS 401, can I remove BUS 359? I have enough credits to do so.

2. Will the Google Data Analytics certificate transfer in as 3 Credits BUS 245 and 6 Credits COS 1XX? If no or unsure, do I leave my plan as is?

3. If yes, will it make COS 103 worth nothing or just add more credits to it? And can I remove 2 General Elective courses to use the 6 COS 1xx credits?

4. Should I modify or add any courses to keep the possibility open to ladder up to MAOL?

Thanks for the feedback!

[ChickenEnjoyer]

Another thing, the IBM Data Analyst Professional Certificate for BUS 440 seems really inefficient, Coursera say it needs about 160 hours to complete, that's a full month of work. Should I just do the BUS 440 at UMPI instead?

[LevelUP]

Another thing, the IBM Data Analyst Professional Certificate for BUS 440 seems really inefficient, Coursera say it needs about 160 hours to complete, that's a full month of work. Should I just do the BUS 440 at UMPI instead?

It's hard to say how long it would take you.

Google IT support says it will take 240 hours, but I did it in a few days.

[bjcheung77]

When I mentioned the trifecta of certs, degree, experience, you want to make a balanced mix/match of the three. At your age, you don't have much experience in that field, making the energy/time to get the IBM cert in addition to the UMPI course is what I would recommend, the reason is simple, you're going to use that for knowledge and learning gaps that gets filled by doing both. In many of my posts, you will notice I mention to do the certs in addition to the classes even if it duplicates the credits, and that's the reason why... If you were my age or something like double, and you have plenty of knowledge/experience, doing the UMPI course would be recommended as that would go towards the MAOL.

[ChickenEnjoyer]

When I mentioned the trifecta of certs, degree, experience, you want to make a balanced mix/match of the three.  At your age, you don't have much experience in that field, making the energy/time to get the IBM cert in addition to the UMPI course is what I would recommend, the reason is simple, you're going to use that for knowledge and learning gaps that gets filled by doing both.  In many of my posts, you will notice I mention to do the certs in addition to the classes even if it duplicates the credits, and that's the reason why... If you were my age or something like double, and you have plenty of knowledge/experience, doing the UMPI course would be recommended as that would go towards the MAOL.

Thank you! I would prefer to do the Bachelor in the most efficient and fast way though, how can I adjust for that? Here in Europe it's basically just needed to tick a box to enter junior level positions. I can do certificates after the bachelor too if needed. I don't want to work in Data Analytics anyway, so I would probably prefer doing some other certificate afterwards.

Or could I at least remove the general elective courses that the certs credits cover? I am not sure how that works, if more credits in one class from the certs can replace other classes. I think stuff like Art History II really isn't necessary for future jobs and I'd like to skip that.

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Another thing, the IBM Data Analyst Professional Certificate for BUS 440 seems really inefficient, Coursera say it needs about 160 hours to complete, that's a full month of work. Should I just do the BUS 440 at UMPI instead?

It's hard to say how long it would take you.

Google IT support says it will take 240 hours, but I did it in a few days.

Do you have prior work experience to help you do it so quickly?
I can do some basic python, but the other things I'd need to learn from scratch.

[GoBroncos95]

+1 on this. I am following the same path. Going to take some advice from here.