IBM Data Science Professional Certificate Course equivalencies

[spohara]

@sarahmac, it's sad and I agree to an extent... institutions will be that way, they'll try their best to get you to take courses through them or agreement/partnership course providers.  So be it, unless you're really needing the BS Data Analytics degree, there are other similar programs available at WGU as an example.

There are quite a lot of non-US folks here though who cannot do WGU. I personally thought it was a positive sign TESU were expanding their tech-related degrees (i.e. DS, Cloud etc.) because they could have really captured a missing market that WGU doesn't cover.

In the end though, I think the inflexibility of those programs will see people continue to do BA CS and then a master's. Especially given Georgia Tech and Texas A&M's relative affordability - their master's work out either similar in cost or cheaper than the BS DS at TESU.

Yeah, I agree.  If I could have alt-credited the DS degree, or transferred in some credits I already have, I'd have gone that route.  Instead I'm doing the BACS.  It would have been really nice to do some more of these certs along the way because they fit in better than courses like computer architecture that are completely irrelevant for me (so I half-try at them just to get a pass).  I guess the only good thing is some of the CS stuff is really easy from SDC.  And I might take that AI course anyway if I still need some LL AOS when it is all said and done.  For career prospects for me - in government they don't care if it is a DS or CS degree, but I'd just rather learn more within my actual field  and be better prepared for grad school than get a pure checkbox degree.