Excelsior Changes to General Business Degree 7-1-2015

[sanantone]

I know the comment was made sarcastically, but I don't see how any of the Big 3 are becoming more like diploma mills. Excelsior's business communications, international business, and quantitative analysis requirements are similar to what TESC has already had for years. TESC requires business communications, international business or business in society, and college algebra or quantitative analysis. TESC stopped accepting FEMA, stopped accepting IT certs that weren't ACE-approved, and started requiring a capstone for almost all of its degree programs. I don't see how that is moving in the direction of a diploma mill. COSC got stricter with its English requirement and is creating majors that are better than its concentrations.

I don't think any of the Big 3 are shady, but that 6-credit capstone plus the enrollment fee for the multi-source option are going to make Excelsior more expensive for the business degree. It doesn't put Excelsior into UoP territory, however. SNHU is the non-profit that has modeled itself after UoP. They've openly stated this.