Ridiculously Easy Associates Degree - Purdue University Global

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I think you're right - assuming the actual IT degree is as generous and liberal with accepting IT certs as the BSPr program is (can somebody report back on this?) It would be preferable in the job market to have a BSIT than it would a BSPr. A degree in something is usually better than a degree in "Professional Studies."

Now ....maybe somebody needs a generic box-check degree, but really isn't into IT enough to take the in-residence IT core. Maybe they want the box-check degree, and would prefer to study history, art, underwater basket weaving or whathaveyou... but in order to shorten the time/money commitment, they load up on free elective credits with a handful of the easier IT certs to fill out the degree requirements, do challenge exams to complete the rest, and graduate very quickly and pretty affordably while avoiding writing a lot of papers.
If that's what they're after, the PUG BSPr Individualized Study option might just fit the bill. Similar price range as a UMPI BLS but with a lot less writing papers.

This is really just another option like a BSLS/BLS/BALS from COSC/EC/TESU - but possibly for less.

Since you still have to take 45qcr from PurdueGlobal, I'm not sure how you can say that it's less work than UMPI - my daughter is taking courses at PurdueGlobal, and she's writing papers weekly.  They're not onerous in length, but it's for LL courses, so we don't yet know what the UL coursework looks like.