UMPI Brother vs Sister Battle of 2022

[KSoul]

BUS245 is a pain! When I took it, we had to write a program in a language that wasn't covered in the course content. The professor I had has since left the program. He didn't created the project and didn't like it. I worked with him 4 times through Zoom meetings to get my project completed. This was my most difficult course at UMPI. It is weird that a certificate on data analytics gives you credit for programming. What programming do you do in the certificate?

Thanks for sharing. I was curious of the difficulty of this course. My sister will most likely end up doing the certification even though she is leaning towards the Supply Chain Management degree over the Project Management. She will use the credits as electives vs. the BUS 245 + electives.

You spend time with R & SQL. You can run all of the simulations within the course. The process (art) of cleaning data is a significant part of the course. It felt like it would never end; however, it was valuable information with exercises that hammered home this important step/skill.

There's a bit of SQL in BUS345. The certificate sounds very different than the UMPI classes which makes sense since none of them are data analytics. Even BUS440 doesn't really go into analytics even though it's in the name. The course covered strategic management when I took it so very different than analytics.

Thanks for sharing;  this information is helpful. My sister shared that she is now, after getting the details of the transfer credits for UMPI, leaning more towards the Project Management degree. She completed an internship in June and is officially hired for a very large company in Germany, and they said it would be an appreciated degree within the organization. 

She did say that outside of her asking about the degree, no one has ever asked what she is getting a degree in and only ask "are you pacing to have a bachelor's degree in 2023". Sometimes the degree titles are more vanity than necessity. Again, she is already working there, and if just a resume with little experience, the type of degree can bring additional value.

I decided to take on one last challenge for June and jumped into the  Coursera Data Analysis and Visualization Foundations Specialization course. This course must have a high dropout rate because it has a robust set of mini projects throughout each module. It is not that the tasks are so complex, but it just feels like enough is enough at one point. I haven't been this happy to get done with a course as I was today receiving the approval on the final. The main reason I did the course was my curiosity about how the  3 UL credits transfer into UMPI (9 total with 6 LL). The courses in the Project Management plan that I feel have an outside shot for transfer with these Coursera ACE certs are:

BUS 345: Database Management Systems 
BUS 359: IT Project Management 
BUS 400: Project Management Applications 
BUS 415: Operations Management 
BUS 401: Advanced Project Management Applications II

I sent the latest transcripts off,  so I figure by next week or so, we will know the results.