Degree Completion Programs

[ss20ts]

I wonder if an accreditor (looking at you, DEAC) would let someone start a college that is intended as a 100% degree completion school. Or like 99% degree completion. not one that is just very generous with transfer credit like the Big 3, but one whose actual sole purpose is just to turn your credits accumulated elsewhere into a degree.

So the school would have a group of degrees they offer, but it offers zero courses toward those degrees (except maybe some capstone or something, maybe a PLA course, etc). Similar to  what we are already so used to doing around here, there would be a degree map of course categories that are accepted toward the school's specific degrees, and you have to transfer them in from various sources because there's no way to take them at the school.

Just a formal way of what we've been doing at the big 3 for years, but now a school completely dedicated to it.

Very little overhead since you're not paying for faculty to run courses constantly, or dealing with financial aid or any of the real larger staff that keeps the lights on at a normal school, other than a registrar department and student advising. Degree plans would need some regular review for relevant changes and such, but that's not a year round effort. You get experts and academics to do that annually or whatever....

just a thought.

anyone want to start a school with me?

Time to start a GoFundMe. There's been a bunch colleges up for sale the last few years. Maybe you could snag one real cheap and start this. Basically buy the name. 

You can pretty much do this already with TESU and EC though. You only need the capstone, cornerstone, and info lit courses.

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Excelsior (formerly Regents College) started out this way. They had no courses; they only offered credit-by-exam to fill in degree requirement gaps.

Then they realized how much $$$$ could be made when they charge $400 per credit for a class instead.