Don't misrepresent where you went to school.

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That's my point. HES is fine if you don't need a prestigious degree. Most people don't need prestigious degrees. If you're attending HES because you think it's going to give you the same opportunities as other Harvard schools, then you're going to be disappointed. 

As for the cost of the master's programs, you have to factor in the cost of moving to Cambridge for a semester if hybrid courses are not an option for your program. 

What is their cap on CLEP/DSST? When calculating the cost of a degree, I factor in the cost of transfer credits because those aren't free.

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Apparently, at least 1,500 Extension School students don't like their degree names. They signed a petition and protested.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2016/...y-degrees/

Wait, I could be persuaded to agree that the night school (HES) has never been as prestigious as some of the other Harvard schools but it is certainly better than literary hundreds of schools nobody ever head of; probably get more mileage out of it than a number of Sate schools as well.

Secondly if you are factoring CLEP/DSST limits then you pretty much are excluding every prestigious school.  But as you say it really depends on what you need.  I suspect a large percentage of adult learners are needing to check a box to get past an automated candidate system or other lazy HR practices.

I'm pretty sure that if you go to the local state school in your area, you will find hundreds or thousands of people in your area who also went to that school.  You will not find thousands that went to HES.  The school that people say "oh, I went there" is going to make an HR manager who went to your school remember you above many others.


But honestly, I don't care where I went to school, I just care that as I get back out in the workforce, I have a degree.  Period, end of story.  Prestige won't get me any further than a no-name school when I'm trying to get my resume looked at by a computer or hiring manager.  Just having the degree is enough.

BTW - when companies put job descriptions out, none of them say "business degree required, one from Harvard is preferable."  Nope, they say "business degree required."  I've never seen a school listed as the one they care about.  Most don't (probably 99%).