Purdue University Global - BA IT Bunch of Changes

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There were quite a few changes and updates to the degree plan. 

• W3Schools PHP cert now only comes in as IN253 (5cr vs 35cr+ before)
  
• Removed Study.com courses that were expired
  
• Sophia's Intro to Networking works for IT273 Networking Concepts
  
• Study.com Computer Science 109: Introduction to Programming works for iN256
  

The best way to do this degree would probably be to go for the IT Management concentration, then get the Azure Fundamentals cert and one other course to meet the objective.  (Maybe Sophia's Python programming will work)

Then you can skip doing CompTIA Security+ & CompTIA A+.

Disappointed, but not completely surprised from my PUG conversations, that the W3Schools cert was cut all the way back to IN253. It never should have been 35 credits worth -- IN253 plus IN257 would have probably been more reasonable than what it used to be. Hopefully they start reviewing any of the certs I've worked ahead on for graduate credit in November...

Because I asked, I know that IT244 will not work for IT Management (Sophia Python) -- I'm told it's because it's a three-credit class rather than five or six. You could do Project+ (not a hard cert -- I passed it in about a week), which would give you IT401 -- which will work for the IT Management concentration -- as well as not needing to do Sophia for IT301.

Well, too bad Python doesn't work.

Would Study.com Computer Science 110: Introduction to Cybersecurity work? It comes in as IT104 Introduction to Cybersecurity. 
https://study.com/college/school/purdue-...lobal.html