IT degree with A levels & 7 years of work experience

[rachel83az]

1st off, you do not have to redo the work if you complete 2 certificates that share module(s)/course(s). You only have to complete the new modules/courses. Some of the IBM certificates have a lot of overlap, so that is, indeed, a lot of potential credit one can get for little additional effort.

Thanks to your question, I went and checked the transfer database. There are now only two IBM certificates that nobody has yet transferred to UMPI.

The IBM Data Science Professional Certificate counts as 9 credits of BUS1XX and 3 credits of COS3XX. So that and the certificates you've already taken do not overlap at UMPI. Each COSXXX or BUSXXX will have its own entry with separate credits and not overlap. This differs from courses with specific numbers (such as BUS345 or BUS440); if you brought in another course with the same number, they would overlap and you would only get credit once.

If you do the IBM Full Stack Developer Professional Certificate, it will list as transfer credits of GEL1XX and GEL3XX. Not super useful for a Master's program in and of itself, but they'll want to see the source of transfer credits anyway so they'll see the IBM certificate on your Credly transcript.